One round earlier compared to the last four seasons, the big Italian classic Virtus Bologna against Olimpia Milano is next. During the current season, the two teams have faced each other in all competitions, six times in all, with Olimpia winning the Super Cup and the Italian Cup games. Considering that there have been 43 Read More »
Playoff Shavon Shields replicated exactly his Game 3 performance and maybe he did even better. He scored 27 points, 18 in the first half, and nine in the fourth when Olimpia needed them the most. Olimpia defeated Trento 89-82 and closed out the best-of-five series 3-1. It is the eleventh straight qualification to the Italian Read More »
Olimpia approaches its first “close-out game” on his home court. Over the last five seasons when it had the chance to close a quarterfinal series, Olimpia took advantae of it three times out of four but always on the road (the only exception was during the 2022/23 season when it lost Game 3 in Pesaro Read More »
Game 3 was very different right from the beginning. If Games 1 and 2 were low-scoring affair, Game 3 was played at a higher pace and Olimpia finally dominated it winning 107-79 and taking a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series. Game 4 will be played on Saturday in Milan again. Olimpia started the game Read More »
So far, it has been a low-scoring series, with a lot of defense, mediocre shooting percentages, and that on both sides. Trento scored 70 points in Game 1 and 70 again in Game 2. It was enough the second time, not the first. Olimpia has always been used to winning while scoring a lot more Read More »
Everything happened and was decided in a matter of seconds. The game was tied at 67 with 24 seconds left when Trento, following a time-out, worked the ball to eat time and take a shot to win the game or force overtime. Olimpia, as it did for the entire fourth quarter, erected a wall, obscured Read More »
Only twice since the start of the season has Olimpia won a game scoring fewer than 75 points. Game 1 was the third time. Olimpia shot 45.5 percent from two in Trento, finished shooting 5 for 23 from three and closed the game missing one free throw out of two four times over five trips, Read More »
A hard-fought battle was won 73-70 in Trento, so now Olimpia leads the best-of-five frst round 1-0. Game 2 is scheduled to be played on Monday in Trento again. It was a weird game. Olimpia scored on the very first possession then Trento had a 16-0 run and built a 14-point commanding lead. But Olimpia Read More »
"It's playoff time" like every year in May. Olimpia enters the post-season starting from the fifth place and with a road game for the first time since 2009 when they eliminated Teramo in four games and reached the Italian league championship series that then was lost. But they also start by defending three consecutive Italian Read More »
Olimpia took the game against Scafati over late in the first quarter, then handled it the best possible way, protected Nico Mannion - who sprained lightly his left ankle early in the game - shared the minutes among twelve players, used the last regular season game to give Josh Nebo much needed minutes. Finally, Faben Read More »
