The 30-year-old forward is averaging 24.5 points over the last four games.
Sasha Vezenkov pulls off another masterclass as Olympiacos crushes Partizan
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Round 22 of 38
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Sasha Vezenkov is on fire and there is no stopping him. The Olympiacos Piraeus forward bagged 25 points for the second game in a row, as the Reds crushed Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade 66-104 on Wednesday evening.
The 30-year-old did so by shooting 9-for-12 from the field and 4-for-4 from the free-throw line in just over 28 minutes. Vezenkov has scored at least 24 points in each of his last four games. In that stretch, he has gone a spectacular 25-for-33 from inside the arc and 10-for-17 from deep while making all his 18 free-throw attempts.
“Sasha is Sasha,” Olympiacos head coach Georgios Bartzokas said in the post-game press conference. “You can’t say a lot of things. He doesn’t want to dribble the ball, but he moves extremely well away from the ball. He’s a great shooter, very good rebounder. He has this feeling for the game, which is a pure talent. He just needs the system around him and this ball movement to make him the player that he is right now.”
Indeed, Olympiacos have managed to bounce back after a slow start to the season with convincing performances to kick off 2026 in style. They’ve done so by playing their signature free-flowing basketball that has led to 21, 19, 28 and 25 assists respectively in their last four duels.
Having won five of its last six games, Olympiacos is currently one of the hottest teams in EuroLeague and Thomas Walkup revealed after Wednesday’s win that it took a team meeting to flip the switch in Piraeus.
“About a month ago, we had a serious team meeting and we said, ‘guys if we want to achieve something, we’ve got to be better than this’. Practice better habits,” Walkup noted. “Since then, we’ve been doing that and I think it’s very obvious with our play.”
The Olympiacos guard drained all his 4 of his three-point attempts to become one of the five Olympiacos players to end the game on 12 points along with Tyler Dorsey, Alec Peters, Nikola Milutinov and Donta Hall. More importantly for Bartzokas, all 11 players who stepped on the floor recorded at least 1 assist, as Walkup paced his team with 7.
“We were really serious for 40 minutes,” Bartzokas added. “Especially the second and the third quarter were really good for us, sharing the ball and having lots of assists. Each player who played the game had at least 1 assist and some of them a lot. Whenever we move the ball, we have a lot of players to score.”
Olympiacos held Partizan to just 13 points in each of the two aforementioned quarters, opening a double-digit lead that it maintained throughout the game. The guests outscored Partizan in each of the four quarters and registered their highest-scoring road victory this season.
It was also Olympiacos’s second biggest road win in club history, as well as its largest triumph away from home over the last 25 years. For the record, its biggest ever victory on the road was a 53-100 thrashing of Ovarense Aerosoles back in 2000.
Records and milestones aside, this comfortable win over Partizan offers Olympiacos the opportunity to head into the upcoming double-round week with its confidence sky high. And with Vezenkov pulling off displays like Wednesday’s, the Reds will look to put together a winning streak that will allow them to further climb up the standings.
