Next week Olimpia will take part in the 22nd playoff final of the Italian league in its history over 42 post-season participations. The record in the previous 21 finals is 11-10. The first finals dates back to the 1978/79 season when Olimpia lost 2-0 against the defending champions of Virtus Bologna. Olimpia played a record-eight Read More »
Olimpia didn't make any difference. In Brescia, it dominated the game the same way Game 1 and 2 were dominated, maybe even more. At the end, the final score 96-86 didn't tell the story of the game. Olimpia hit the ground running, went up 7-0 and never let the opponent come back seriously. Brescia tried, Read More »
The semifinal series is moving to Brescia for Game 3. Olimpia’s won two completely different games, even in terms of main guys (the seven points that Shavon Shields and Nikola Mirotic combined for in Game 1 became 37 in Game 2), now will taste the Brescia’s home court with the intention of trying to close Read More »
It was a tough, phsyical, classic playoff game that Olimpia led for 40 minutes straight, winning 77-66. Nothing like the Game 1 shootout, that was a battle since the start. "There were a lot of hard contacts, but unfortunately no team, not us, not Brescia, understood what the referees deemed as legal or illegal, so Read More »
To make sense of the Game 1 win and really get closer to another championship series, it is necessary for Olimpia to win Game 2 too. The 61 points scored in the first half of Game 1 are an enormity and in the playoffs even an anomaly. However, Olimpia had scored 28 points in the Read More »
Six men scored in double figures for Olimpia. Now, Milan leads the best-of-five semifinal series 1-0 after an anomaly of Game 1, especially the first half. 95-89 was the final score. It was a classic playoff game in terms of intensity, characterized by fouls called and even 62 total free throws (and both teams were Read More »
The quarter-final with Trento has been left behind, thanks to the two consecutive road wins. Now, it is on to the semifinals with Brescia, a series that starts again in Milan for Games 1 and 2. Olimpia faces it encouraged by the quality shown in the most recent games, as the numbers say: 89.5 points Read More »
Three games in three days, all three of them starting at 9:00 in the morning. If participating in the EuroLeague Next Gen in Berlin as one of the fantastic eight Under 18 teams in Europe wasn't already something of the highest degree of difficulty, the Olimpia boys will also have to overcome the pitfalls of Read More »
Olimpia tore Game 4 apart between the second and third quarter when it held Trento to 21 points combined turning a one-point deficit into a commanding 23-point led that made the fourth period irrelevant in a 87-69 huge win. Olimpia won the game and the series (3-1) advancing to the Italian league semifinals for the Read More »
It is Olimpia’s first match point, the first potential "close-out game" of the series and of the season. It was achieved by playing a solid game in Trento both offensively and defensively. In Game 3, five players scored in double figures as happened in Game 2. The difference was in the defensive efficiency, with the Read More »
