After grabbing a Game 3 overtime victory thanks to Jabari Parker's last-second free throws, FC Barcelona will look to seal a club-record fourth straight visit to the Final Four while Olympiacos Piraeus will be fighting hard to take the series to a fifth and final game.
Game Notes: Olympiacos vs. Barcelona
2023-24
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All three games in the series have been competitive, with defenses very much on top, leading to notably low-scoring percentages from two-point range. However, both teams likely will persist with playing inside the paint. Game 3 saw significant contributions from Moses Wright (16 points) and Filip Petrusev (18) for the Reds, along with those of Barca duo Jan Vesely (16) and Willy Hernangomez (13).
- Out of the 38 games that Olympiacos and Barcelona have played this century, 11 have been either at the Final Four or in the EuroLeague Playoffs.
- In Game 3, Barcelona pulled out an 80-82 overtime with Jabari Parker making 2 free throws with 0.5 seconds to go. Jan Vesely scored 16 points in the victory.
- In Game 2, Barcelona beat Olympiacos 77-69 with Jabari Parker scoring his EuroLeague personal-best 24 points.
- In Game 1, Olympiacos held on for a 75-77 win at Palau Blaugrana with Nigel Williams-Goss scoring 15 points.
- Olympiacos won its first EuroLeague crown by beating Barcelona 73-58 in the 1997 championship game in Rome led by Final Four MVP David Rivers's 26 points.
- Barcelona bested Olympiacos in the 2010 EuroLeague championship game in Paris 86-68 thanks to 21 points from Final Four MVP Juan Carlos Navarro.
- Olympiacos edged Barcelona 68-64 in the 2012 Final Four Semifinals on the way to winning the EuroLeague in Istanbul.
- Olympiacos beat Barcelona 3-1 in the 2015 EuroLeague Playoffs.
- Barcelona and Olympiacos have played in the third-place game twice, first in 2009 when Barcelona won 95-79, and also at the 2022 Final Four when Barcelona prevailed over Olympiacos 84-74.
- Barcelona swept Olympiacos during the regular season, including an 86-78 home win in early January with Jabari Parker scoring a personal-best 21 points.
- Olympiacos coach Georgios Bartzokas was Barcelona's head coach during the 2016-17 season; he led the club to a 12-18 regular-season record. No player from that season remains on the Barcelona roster.
- Olympiacos forward Kostas Papanikolaou played for Barcelona during the 2013-14 season. He helped the team win the Spanish League championship.
- Olympiacos guard Thomas Walkup was a teammate of Barcelona guard Rokas Jokubaitis at Zalgiris Kaunas for three seasons, from 2018 to 2021.
- Olympiacos's Ignas Brazdeikis was a teammate of Jokubaitis on the Lithuanian national team at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Olympiacos center Nikola Milutinov has been a teammate of Barcelona's Nikola Kalinic on the Serbian national team.
- Milutinov earned MVP of the Round honors after he led Olympiacos to a 60-69 victory in Barcelona with 18 points plus 14 rebounds, including 7 offensive boards, for a PIR of 36 in December 2018.
- Olympiacos forward Luke Sikma and Barcelona's Oscar da Silva were teammates at ALBA Berlin during the 2021-22 season.
- Sikma posted his career high with 7 offensive rebounds playing for ALBA against Barcelona in October 2021.
- Barcelona guard Nicolas Laprovittola set his career-high with 3 steals in a road loss against Olympiacos in April 2022.
- Barcelona point guard Tomas Satoransky collected a career-high 4 steals in a season-opening loss against Olympiacos in October 2022.
- Olympiacos guard Shaquielle McKissic swiped a career-high 5 steals in the third-place game at the 2022 Final Four.
- Barcelona forward Nikola Kalinic scored a career-high 25 points and had a career-best PIR of 27 while playing for Crvena Zvezda Belgrade against Olympiacos in December 2021.
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