In European competitions, Olimpia Milano and Real Madrid have met 36 times, with a record of 25-11 in Real Madrid favor. Real Madrid-Olimpia awarded the European Cup in 1967 in Madrid and the Cup Winners' Cup in Ostend in 1984: in both circumstances, Real won. This game has been played 18 times in Madrid and Read More »
A 23-6 first quarter set the tone early for Olimpia and the game against Verona was never in doubt. Any time Verona tried to attempt a comeback, Olimpia responded on its way to a 78-54 win. It was never very brilliant offensively, both at shooting the ball and taking good care of the ball, but Read More »
Olimpia finished the energy early in the second quarter and lost its first road EuroLeague game in Barcelona 74-56. Olimpia started the game well, scored in each of the first four possessions with Brandon Davies on fire, 10 points in the first. But after leading 6-0 and 8-2, after closing the first period tied at Read More »
The fifth round of the EuroLeague regular season requires Olimpia to make its fourth road game, this time in Barcelona against one of the big contenders, the only one with Efes to have made both of the last two Final Fours. Barcelona is 2-2 this season, it lost at home to unbeaten Olympiacos but made Read More »
Barcelona and Olimpia, on the court next Friday, 28 October, at the Palau Blaugrana, have met 25 times in their history. Barcelona leads the all-time series 14-11, 11-8 during the EuroLeague era, but the last two games have been won by Milan. Barcelona is 7-2 at home, Olimpia is 6-3 when playing in Milan. On Read More »
Closing a long week spent on the road, Olimpia found itself mentally and physically drained in Venezia, losing 76-69. Olimpia had a solid approac early in the game, led by as many as 10 points, looking great. But the energy level went down abruptly during the course of the game. Gradually, Olimpia lost effectivensee at Read More »
Olimpia Milano reports that, during the first quarter of the Munich game, Shavon Shields suffered a tendon injury to his left foot. Shields' conditions will be re-evaluted in 6-to-8 weeks. Read More »
Billy Baron entered in the Munich game riding a streak of 12 games out of 13 with at least two made threes. In the first three EuroLeague outings he had 9-for-11 from three-point range. But against Bayern, a team very careful not to give him any light, he was unable to use his jump shot. Read More »
On the very same night he played an all-around game (17 points, six rebounds, three assists, three steals, one turnover, 29 points, +12 in a very close game, Nicolò Melli has also reached some "minor" but still significant milestones in his career. Yesterday in Monaco he exceeded the 900 career rebounds (now he has 903), Read More »
Billy Baron with 21 seconds left in the game, after a time-out called by Coach Ettore Messina, from the left corner, got the ball from Kevin Pangos (his 11th assist of the night) and made his only three of the night. It was by far the most important one because Olimpia took the lead for Read More »
