Home sweet home, for Greens and Reds

Home advantage told for Olympiakos and Panathinaikos this week in the Euroleague, with the Reds beating Anadolu Efes and the Greens outscoring Baskonia.

Olympiakos was a class above Efes on Thursday and deserved its 18-point triumph (75-57) at home in front of a capacity crowd at the Peace and Friendship Stadium.

Thanks to its deep roster, the Greek champion had many solutions to the problems Efes try to pose to it, and kept increasing its distance from its Turkish visitor as the game went on.

The wide variety of scorers as well as the spread of the team's 39 rebounds on the night gave coach Giorgos Bartzokas plenty of reasons to smile at the end. His team is now on a 3-2 record.

He saw Nigel Williams-Goss and Kostas Papanikolaou score 14 points, each, with Alec Peters adding another 12.

Panathinaikos notched up its second win in five games,...