More than ten months after the first official game of the season, Olimpia will take the floor in Bologna with one goal in mind. Only one: find a way to bring the series back in Milan, have one more game before the home crowd, play season game number 92. Olimpia’s 91^st game, tomorrow, at 7 pm, will set a new club record for most games in a season. The previous was set during the 2013/14 season, when Olimpia had 77 games, so we can safely say that the record has been shattered. Only Bayern Munich, should it make the German league final through Game 5, could tie the 91-game mark by the end of this grueling season.

No team in basketball history has won a series coming back from 0-3, but this is not the time to focus long-term. Olimpia will just look for the energy and accuracy necessary to prevail, somehow, in Game 4. So far, the team is averaging 12 points per game behind its season average, shooting the ball from three-point range way under the excellent standard kept throughout the season (27.6 percent in the championship series, over 43 percent during the season). What Olimpia is looking for is one game comparable to the so many others. But obviously this 91^st game is uncharted territory for anybody.

In Game 3, Coach Messina tried to find some lift from Vlado Micov and Kaleb Tarczewski, both started the game, not only to replace the injured Malcolm Delaney. Olimpia was tough enough to come back twice from 12 points down, in the second and third period, but the fourth quarter was lethal once more. Olimpia scored just six points and couldn’t sustain its effort. But now this is the past, Game 4 is the only one that really counts.