A nightmarish shooting night, 19-for-60 from the field, in the end doomed Olimpia's chance to reach the Supercup championship game in Brescia. Virtus Bologna won 72-64 after an overtime and a weird last minute in the regulation. That was when Coach Messina was called for a technical foul that extended Bologna's late lead. A furious Read More »
Starting with the Italian league opening game, on Sunday October 2, against Brescia, Olimpia Milano will play the home games, across all the competitions, on the "Cesare Rubini Court". The floor of his home games will in fact be named after one of the greatest personalities in the history of sports, who, along President Adolfo Read More »
The traditional Italian Supercup in Brescia represents the new season’s first official competition. Olimpia will make its debut on Wednesday night against Virtus Bologna, the defending Supercup champions and the same team faced in the last two Supercup finals with one win each. Of course, this time it is happening in the semifinal so one Read More »
Olimpia got the job done in Athens, edging Panathinaikos 77-64 in the championship game that ended the Giannakopoulos Tournament. It's been a very good game because Olimpia was missing several players, Pangos, Shields, Tonut, Datome and Voigtmann, but used the entire roster to keep minutes, energy, foul, everything under control. In the first half, Tommaso Read More »
Olimpia struggled in the first quarter of the game vs Maccabi Tel Aviv in Athens, but bounced back very strong and won 80-71 qualifying for the championship game tomorrow. The 12-point deficit (11 at the end of the first period) was canceled during a dominating second quarter when Maccabi was held to 8 points. Olimpia Read More »
Olimpia's job of introducing the newcomers to the media finished last night with Kevin Pangos, Deshaun Thomas, Stefano Tonut and Johannes Voigtmann. "They are players we wanted. Pangos was the one and only point-guard we really wanted on our team; Thomas and Voigtmann are versatile players who can play multiple positions and can score from Read More »
Olimpia will wrap up its preseason with the Athens tournament, named after Pavlos Giannakopoulos, the historic owner of Panathinaikos. So far, Olimpia has played two scrimmages and four friendly games with five wins and one defeat, but always in an incomplete set-up. In Athens, the difficulty level will rise to an extreme - only EuroLeague Read More »
Billy Baron, Brandon Davies and Naz Mitrou-Long were officially introduced to the media yesterday in Milan by Olimpia’s general manager Christos Stavropoulos. “Baron and Davies - he said -, we followed them, and we wanted them to increase depth and offensive potential on top of being experienced EuroLeague players. Naz is a newcomer in that Read More »
It was a weird game in Vigevano. Olimpia won 72-70 with a field goal made with 0.5 seconds left by Brandon Davies (21 points, 12 in the second half) after an assist by Kevin Pangos. But, in order to win, Olimpia had to comeback from 26 points down. For 15 minutes it was an Olimpia Read More »
Olimpia went to Desio to face Varese missing eight players. Tommaso Baldasso was back on the court the same day he returned to the team after the European championships, but Kevin Pangos had to sit out because of a minor injury to his left hand. Shavon Shields was out and so Johannes Voigtmann, who is Read More »
