On board to the harbor

The starting part of the season filled with numerous trips will continue at seaside Piraeus where Olympiacos is waiting for the Army Men visit.

The Red-Blues got well-deserved day off after the return from cold Saratov and had two practices before boarding the Rossiya Airlines charter flight to Athens. One of them was held with traditional use of the opponents’ fan chants recording.

“Olympiacos is a good team with clear ideas,” CSKA head coach Dimitris Itoudis said. They changed drastically many things this year both on offense and defense. Their offense depends on transition game and offensive rebounds a lot, they play physical. We expect tough game, we go there to compete and to fight.”

Pavel Korobkov and Joel Freeland remain out for CSKA.

“Relativity” connections

Olympiacos coach Giannis Sfairopoulos was an assistant coach with CSKA Moscow during the 2011-12 season, during which CSKA reached the EuroLeague championship game, but lost to Olympiacos. Four current CSKA players remain from that squad: Milos Teodosic, Nikita Kurbanov, Andrey Vorontsevich and Victor Khryapa.

Milos Teodosic spent four seasons with Olympiacos early in his career between 2007 and 2011. He won the 2010 Euroleague MVP, helped the Reds to a pair of Final Four appearances and was a teammate of current Olympiacos players Vassilis Spanoulis, Kostas Papanikolaou and Georgios Printezis.

Kyle Hines spent two seasons with Olympiacos from 2011 through 2013 and helped the Reds win back-to-back Euroleague titles. He was a teammate there of four current Olympiacos players: Vassilis Spanoulis, Georgios Printezis, Kostas Papanikolaou and Vangelis Mantzaris.

Spanoulis spent four seasons (2005-06, 2007-10) with Panathinaikos when Dimitris Itoudis and Andreas Pistiolis worked on the team’s coaching staff.

Joel Freeland and Olympiacos forward Georgios Printezis were teammates at Unicaja Malaga for two seasons, from 2009 to 2011.

Important numbers

Nando De Colo has recorded a performance index rating in double figures in 36 consecutive EuroLeague games.

De Colo made multiple free throws in 19 consecutive EuroLeague games.

Milos Teodosic has made multiple three-pointers in 22 of the last 23 EuroLeague games.

Milos Teodosic scored 16 points in Round 4, and moved into 9th place on the competition’s career scoring charts. He enters Round 5 with 2,397 points, and next in front of his in 8th place is Nikola Vujcic with 2,444 points.

Teodosic leads EuroLeague with 9.5 assists per game after Round 4.

Cory Higgins ranks first in competition history in three-point shooting accuracy at 52.78%.

De Colo needs 6 steals to reach the century-mark for his EuroLeague career.

Andrey Vorontsevich needs 3 rebounds to reach 600 for his EuroLeague career.

Khryapa needs 1 more steal to crack the EuroLeague all-time top 10. He enters the game with 215 career steals; former CSKA star Trajan Langdon (216 steals) sits in 10th place.

Khryapa needs 4 more assists to reach 500 for his EuroLeague career. He is 20th on the competition’s career charts with 496.

Kyle Hines needs 2 assists to reach the century mark for his EuroLeague career.

Past matchups

Wins/losses: 19-12
1994-95 – European Championship for Men’s Clubs. Quarterfinals. CSKA – Olympiacos: 95-65 (+30)
1994-95 – European Championship for Men’s Clubs. Quarterfinals. Olympiacos – CSKA: 86-77 (-9)
1994-95 – European Championship for Men’s Clubs. Quarterfinals. Olympiacos – CSKA: 79-54 (-25)
1995-96 – European Championship for Men’s Clubs. Semifinal Round. CSKA – Olympiacos: 96-91 (+5)
1995-96 – European Championship for Men’s Clubs. Semifinal Round. Olympiacos – CSKA: 72-78 (+6)
1996-97 – Euroleague. Qualification Round. Olympiacos – CSKA: 82-51 (-31)
1996-97 – Euroleague. Qualification Round. CSKA – Olympiacos: 70-79 (-9)
1997-98 – Euroleague. Preliminary Round. Olympiacos – CSKA: 86-74 (-12)
1997-98 – Euroleague. Preliminary Round. CSKA – Olympiacos: 77-58 (+19)
1998-99 – Euroleague. Preliminary Round. CSKA – Olympiacos: 75-81 (-6)
1998-99 – Euroleague. Preliminary Round. Olympiacos – CSKA: 74-76 (+2)
2002-03 – Euroleague. Regular Season. CSKA – Olympiacos: 74-67 (+7)
2002-03 – Euroleague. Regular Season. Olympiacos – CSKA: 77-79 (+2)
2003-04 – Euroleague. Top 16. CSKA – Olympiacos: 80-66 (+14)
2003-04 – Euroleague. Top 16. Olympiacos – CSKA: 69-93 (+24)
2006-07 – Euroleague. Top 16. Olympiacos – CSKA: 64-85 (+21)
2006-07 – Euroleague. Top 16. CSKA – Olympiacos: 83-79 (+4)
2007-08 – Euroleague. Regular Season. CSKA – Olympiacos: 88-79 (+9)
2007-08 – Euroleague. Regular Season. Olympiacos – CSKA: 71-67 (-4)
2007-08 – Euroleague. Quarterfinals. CSKA – Olympiacos: 74-76 (-2)
2007-08 – Euroleague. Quarterfinals. Olympiacos – CSKA: 73-83 (+10)
2007-08 – Euroleague. Quarterfinals. CSKA – Olympiacos: 81-56 (+25)
2011-12 – Euroleague. Top 16. Olympiacos – CSKA: 78-86 (+8)
2011-12 – Euroleague. Top 16. CSKA – Olympiacos: 96-64 (+32)
2011-12 – Euroleague. Final. CSKA – Olympiacos: 61-62 (-1)
2012-13 – Euroleague. Semifinal. Olympiacos – CSKA: 69-52 (-17)
2014-15 – Euroleague. Top 16. Olympiacos – CSKA: 84-76 (-8)
2014-15 – Euroleague. Top 16. CSKA – Olympiacos: 76-70 (+6)
2014-15 – Euroleague. Semifinal. Olympiacos – CSKA: 70-68 (-2)
2015-16 – Euroleague. Top 16. CSKA – Olympiacos: 92-85 (+7)
2015-16 – Euroleague. Top 16. Olympiacos – CSKA: 96-99 (+3)

Short dossier

Olympiacos Pireaus, Greece
Founded: 1925
Colors: white, red
Homecourt: Peace and Friendship Stadium (10.845)
Presidents: Panagiotis and Giorgios Angelopoulos
Head Coach: Giannis Sfairopoulos
Website: www.olympiacosbc.gr
Trophy case:
- 3-time Euroleague champions (1997, 2012, 13);
- Intercontinental Cup winners (2013);
- 11-time Greek champions (1949, 1960, 1976, 1978, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2012, 2015);
- 9-time Greek Cup winners (1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1994, 1997, 2002, 2010, 2011)