Olimpia will put the month of March behind after one more road game, this time in the Italian league, in Napoli, with the goal of continuing the comeback that has brought the team, with six wins out of eight in the second half of the season, including the last three, on par with the second-placed Read More »
The final sequence was eerily similar to the one Olimpia had in Madrid two day earlier. A late, desperate attempt to steal a win that produced in the end a buzzer-beating acrobatic corner three made by Stefano Tonut. The field goal allowed Olimpia to lose by ten, 98-88, so saving, exactly what happened in Madrid, Read More »
Two teams hurt in different ways in yesterday's games will battle it out at the Unipol Forum tomorrow night to make a crucial step towards the goal of reaching the post-season of this crazy regular season in which one win more or less is worth an unusual number of positions in the standings. Meanwhile, the Read More »
Real Madrid put its hands on the game early with its physicality, with Usman Garuba using all the energy to contain Nikola Mirotic and force him to wander out on the perimeter while Tavares dominated the boards. The two bigs combined for 16 points in the first quarter. Real Madrid never looked back, never trailed. Read More »
His first field goals dates back to the night of Novembre 27, 2010, in Charleroi, Belgium. His team, Real Madrid, lost unexpectedly that night, 67-49. However, Nikola Mirotic, who has had two scoreless appearances early in the season, accumulated four points during the game. The first four of his career. In Madrid, last night, he Read More »
The most important week of the EuroLeague season is upon us, in Madrid. Real and Olimpia have the same number of wins, 16, and are part of the group of teams fighting to get direct access to the playoffs and to avoid the immediate elimination with the play-in tournament in the middle as a precious Read More »
After several attempts to get away, leading by as many as 10 points in the second half, with two minutes left in the game, Olimpia found itself tied at 82 with Trento. Give them a lot of credit of coming back time after time in a game Olimpia led from wire to wire saved one Read More »
Awaiting Olimpia on Sunday at the Unipol Forum is a team that has was never beaten in direct clashes this season, clearly in the first in Trento and less emphatically in the Italian Cup championship game. Like the one played last Saturday in Brescia, this is a game with great weight on the standings: by Read More »
Olimpia struggled in Paris right from the beginning. A rough start allowed Paris Basketball to build immediately a 12-point lead that was never relinquished. Olimpia attemped several comebacks in every single quarter but was always affected by tough starts to the periods and finally lost 92-79. It didn't have enough defense against Paris' quickness especially Read More »
Every game is a final, every game is a playoff. These are concepts that are often used in the EuroLeague, sometimes too often. But that is not the case here: with five games remaining, Olimpia goes to Paris to face a team that has the same win-loss record. Eventually, it will have two more rounds Read More »
