Partizan basketball players are in a huge crisis after the departure of Željko Obadović, they are last in the Euroleague after seven consecutive defeats, in which they lost by a total of 170 points!
On average, in December last year and January this year, Belgrade's team lost 25 points in the elite European competition.
Olympiacos played tonight at the "Aleksandar Nikolić" arena (the Belgrade Arena is occupied due to the European Water Polo Championship) and strolled to victory - 104:66.
Partizan was only defeated more severely this season in Lithuania by Žalgiris - 109:68.
There is no way out of the results, players and any other crisis in sight, it's only January and the team of Gioana Peñarue is already in a position to wait for the end of the Euroleague.
"The team has had very bad moments, that's been a big problem in the last two, three months. It's a moment for professionals to work hard, to play together and to understand the difficult situation. To play every day without excuses. We need to change our energy and body language in bad moments. In bad moments, the team plays with the same energy. In games against big teams, it's impossible to compete if we don't play at 100 percent," said Peñaroja.
The morale of Partizan fans, who had been filling the Arena (20) for years, has also dropped, and tonight they were unable to fill the hall with almost three times the capacity.
Olympiacos was led by Vezenkov with 25 points and seven rebounds, Dorsey, Hall, Milutinov, Peters and Vocap each added 12 points. Partizan's Washington was the most efficient with 28 points, and the only other player in double figures was Bruno Fernando with 11 points.
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