Olympiacos B.C. season 2007-08

In the season 2007-08, Olympiacos was considered amongst the favourites to reach the Final Four of the Euroleague. It is also considered the favourite along with Panathinaikos in the A1 Ethniki. In the Regular Season the team had the record of 22 wins and 4 defeats, having produced the second most offensive basketball in the Greek League. For the Quarter-finals of the Playoffs, Olympiacos sweeped AEK Athens in a best-of-three series and for the Semi-finals won Maroussi in a best-of-five series by 3-2. In the Finals of the Greek League Reds will face the eternal enemy Panathinaikos. Meanwhile, in Europe the team qualified for the third phase (quarter-finals) of the Euroleague, where it was eliminated by CSKA Moscow. Additionally, Olympiacos qualified to the Greek Cup Final, where they lost to the arch-rival Panathinaikos in a very impressive game, which was dramatic up to the last second.

A1 2007-08

Main article: A1 Ethniki 2007-08

Regular Season

Last match

April 23 17:00 LT	(Report)	Olympiacos	80–48	AGO Rethymno		Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens Attendance: 3,970
		Scoring by quarter: 17-10, 29-13, 21-11, 13-14
		Pts: Tsakalidis 13 Rebs: Two players with 6 Asts: Six players with 2		Pts: Vouyoukas 14 Rebs: Vouyoukas 11 Asts: Koumoulos 3

Play-offs

This is the outlook for the 2008 Α1 playoffs. Teams in italics have home court advantage. Teams in bold advance to the next round. Numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's original playoffs seeding. Numbers to the right indicate the score of each game.

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals									Finals
	1	Panathinaikos	74	78	–
	8	Olympia Larissas	55	58	–
								1	Panathinaikos	91	80	98	–	–
								4	Panionios	75	76	75	–	–
	4	Panionios	83	95	–
	5	Panellinios	70	80	–
																	1	Panathinaikos	83	55	78	57
																	2	Olympiacos	79	71	67	59
	2	Olympiacos	92	70	–
	7	AEK Athens	62	68	–
								2	Olympiacos	87	90	85	75	64
								6	Maroussi	61	97	69	86	63			Euroleague Match
	3	Aris	61	98	79
	6	Maroussi	72	95	85												4	Panionios	60	65	89	96
																	6	Maroussi	67	76	82	84

Quarter-finals
Game	1st Game	2nd Game	3rd Game
Arena	Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens	Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens	–
Date	3 May 2008	5 May 2008	–
Report	QF-Game1	QF-Game2	–

Semi-finals
Game	1st Game	2nd Game	3rd Game	4th Game	5th Game
Arena	Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens	Agios Thomas Indoor Hall, Athens	Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens	Agios Thomas Indoor Hall, Athens	Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens
Date	10 May 2008	13 May 2008	15 May 2008	18 May 2008	21 May 2008
Report	SF-Game1	SF-Game2	SF-Game3	SF-Game4	SF-Game5

Finals
Game	1st Game	2nd Game	3rd Game	4th Game	5th Game
Arena	Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens	Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens	Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens	Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens	Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens
Date	24 May 2008	27 May 2008	29 May 2008	1 June 2008	4 June 2008
Report	F-Game1	F-Game2	F-Game3	F-Game4	21:00 LT

Greek Cup 2007-08

Main article: Greek basketball Cup

Quarter-final

December 22 17:00 LT	(Report)	AEK Athens	69–83	Olympiacos		Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens Attendance: 3,500
		Scoring by quarter: 17-26, 17-16, 17-18, 18-23

Semi-final

February 6 19:15 LT	(Report)	Olympiacos	72–70	Aris TT Bank		Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens Attendance: 9,500
		Scoring by quarter: 18-20, 13-23, 17-10, 24-17

Final

March 26 18:30 LT	(Report)	Olympiacos	79–81	Panathinaikos		Helliniko Indoor Arena, Athens Attendance: 1,720 [1]
		Scoring by quarter: 12-12, 18-22, 20-26, 29-21
		Pts: Greer 28 Rebs: Bourousis 12 Asts: Greer 5		Pts: Spanoulis 20 Rebs: Batiste 6 Asts: Spanoulis 7

Euroleague 2007-08

Regular Season

Main article: Euroleague 2007-08 Regular Season Group A

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	CSKA Moscow	14	12	2	1123	942	+181
2.	Montepaschi Siena	14	10	4	1098	974	+124
3.	TAU Cerámica	14	9	5	1170	1051	+119
4.	Žalgiris Kaunas	14	8	6	1110	1126	−16
5.	Olympiacos	14	7	7	1185	1099	+86
6.	Olimpija Ljubljana	14	4	10	1030	1147	−117
7.	Prokom Trefl Sopot	14	4	10	973	1143	−170
8.	VidiVici Bologna	14	2	12	1008	1215	−207

Key to colors

	Qualified to Top 16
	Eliminated

Top 16

Main article: Euroleague 2007-08 Top 16 Group F

	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	Maccabi Tel Aviv	6	4	2	516	496	+20
2.	Olympiacos	6	4	2	443	436	+7
3.	Real Madrid	6	3	3	489	493	−4
4.	Žalgiris Kaunas	6	1	5	457	480	−23

• Maccabi win the group on the second tiebreaker of head-to-head point differential against Olympiacos.

Key to colors

	Qualified to Quarter-finals
	Eliminated

Quarter-finals

Main article: Euroleague 2007-08 quarterfinals

Teams	Agg.	1st Game	2nd Game	3rd Game
CSKA Moscow	2	74	83	81
Olympiacos	1	76	73	56
Arena		CSKA Universal Sports Hall, Moscow	Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens	CSKA Universal Sports Hall, Moscow

Key to colors

	Qualified to Final Four 2008
	Eliminated

Last match

April 9 18:15 CET	(Report)	CSKA Moscow	81–56	Olympiacos		CSKA Universal Sports Hall, Moscow Attendance: 5,000
		Scoring by quarter: 22-16, 19-13, 20-21, 20-6
		Pts: Šiškauskas 24 Rebs: Smodiš 6 Asts: Holden 6		Pts: Vasilopoulos 17 Rebs: Printezis 5 Asts: Blakney, Greer 4

References

1. ^ Panathinaikos take Greek Cup, March 26, 2008