Towards the end of the third quarter of Wednesday’s Game 3 playoff battle between Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul and Olympiacos Piraeus, Sasha Vezenkov was struggling. Struggling badly.
The leading candidate for this season’s EuroLeague MVP award was suffering a bad night and asked to be substituted after throwing up an ugly and horribly off target long-range air ball as part of his Olympiacos team’s inability to score more than 8 points in the quarter. As he sat down on the bench, shouting angrily and pounding his hands against the advertising boards in a fit of frustration, it seemed like Vezenkov might be forced to endure a rare off night as his team fell behind in the series.
