Restarting from the bottom of the ranking after last week's lost, Olympiacos Piraeus got a very important home win against SLUC Nancy for 91-78. And now the team coached by Dusan Ivkovic reached the 4th place leading Bilbao and Nancy on a tie with 2-3, and most of arrived at just one win from Caja Laboral, Bennet Cantù and Fenerbahce Ulker (3-2). Olympiacos took 8 points of lead in the first period (30-22), but SLUC recovered by half at halftime on 40-36. And then the French team tried to tie the game arriving to -2 (46-44) but was rejected back by Olympiacos, who increased its lead to the 67-52 of the third buzzer (21-8 of break), and the game practically ended right there, because Olympiacos didn't have troubles anymore to control the game in the fourth period and win, showing to be already alive and with the strong desire to climb the ranking. Lazaros Papadopoulos started the game, playing 20' with a very positive 19 of personal ranking, made by 6 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists (seven!) and 1 block shot.

Olympiacos Piraeus vs SLUC Nancy 91-78

Olympiacos Piraeus - Lucas 5, Spanoulis 26, Papanikolau 7, Antic 7, Papadopoulos 6 - starting five - Hines 3, Keselj dnp, Gecevicius 7, Pelekanos 11, Printezis 9, Glyniadakis 10, Katsivelis. Coach: Dusan Ivkovic.

SLUC Nancy - Akingbala 5, Shuler 15, Linehan 17, Moerman 20, Batum 9 - starting five - Grant, Badiane 2, Sylla 2, Samnick 6, Pinda, Amagou 2. Coach: Jean-Luca Monschau

Partials: 30-22, 10-14, 27-16, 24-26 & Periods: 30-22, 40-36, 67-52, 91-78

VIDEO - Game Highlights!