Nikola Kalinic fuels Zvezda over Olympiacos
Nikola Kalinic scored a career-high 25 points and dished 6 assists to lead Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade to a hard-fought 81-76 victory over Olympiacos Piraeus
Nikola Kalinic scored a career-high 25 points and dished 6 assists to lead Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade to a hard-fought 81-76 victory over Olympiacos Piraeus on Thursday night at Aleksandar Nikolic Hall in the Serbian capital.
The Zvezda star scored 8 in the fourth quarter alone, during which the score was tied five times before Kalinic scored and assisted in a game-breaking 9-1 run that made it 78-70 with 1 minute to go.
Luka Mitrovic contributed 12 points and 8 rebounds in the winning effort, Dejan Davidovac added 11 points and Nikola Ivanovic and Nate Wolters scored 10 each. The win was Zvezda’s second in a row to take its record to 6-8. Tyler Dorsey paced the Reds with 18 points and Kostas Sloukas and Sasha Vezenkov each scored 12 in the defeat, which snapped Olympiacos’s three-game winning streak and made it 9-5 on the season.
Fonte: euroleague.net.