It's the last game of the EuroLeague season in Milan. Olimpia faces Bayern Munich, who, after sliding to the bottom of the standings, bounced back and won in Bologna last Tuesday. It's not an important game for the result itself but for the prestige. In fact, it marks essentially the start of preparation for the Read More »
Another game was lost after playing well or very well, building a 14-point lead in the third quarter. Olimpia failed to close out the game, suffering one-on-one situations from the opposing guards and then allowing too many offensive rebounds (the overall difference was 38-27 for the final score of 102-96). It's unofrtunate because on a Read More »
Valencia is battling for a top-four spot at the end of the regular season. The team has been one of the season's revelations, with its brand of basketball based on roster depth, three-point shooting, player interchangeability, and a fast-paced offense. Olimpia will play at the new Roig Arena for the first time and will likely Read More »
After leading essentially for the whole game, Olimpia found itself down by three points in the middle of the fourth quarter and the ghosts of many late losses could have appeared in the Unipol Forum. "This time we have been good at keeping play our game, we attacked the switches with Armoni Brooks and that Read More »
La domenica di Pasqua porta all'Unipol Forum la squadra più in forma del campionato. Reggio Emilia ha vinto le ultime sei partite, ha vinto otto delle ultime nove (l'unica sconfitta è avvenuta in casa contro Cantù), ha vinto le ultime cinque partite giocate in trasferta (l'ultima sconfitta risale al 4 gennaio, a Cremona) e nel Read More »
In the first half Olimpia trailed by as many as 26 points, several times. At the half, it trailed by 23 because of a Zach LeDay's late three. But in the second half, it managed to come back quickly and with seven minutes left in the game, a three made by Armoni Brooks shrank the Read More »
Paris Basketball is a better team than its place in the standings suggest or might seem, given the recent coaching change (Julius Thomas took over from Francesco Tabellini and became the youngest coach to win a EuroLeague game). They've won five of their last ten games, their point differential (minus 58) is better than the Read More »
Olimpia came up short in Udine, once again losing control of the game and the game itself over the last five minutes or less. Udine was good at taking advantage of it prevailing 86-83. Basically, Olimpia led for 35 minutes, was up by six points at the half and by seven after three quarters. After Read More »
Olimpia is going to play in Udine tomorrow, at the sports hall named after legendary heavyweight Primo Carnera, its 63rd game of the season. Under Coach Peppe Poeta, Olimpia has virtually completed a full half season: this is his 15th game as a head coach in Milan (11-3 is the record, so far), in addition Read More »
103 points scored, 26 assists (six each for Ellis and Mannion, who also played together in the fourth quarter), six players in double figures, led by Zach LeDay, who scored 19 points with five three-pointers and a 31 personal rating. Thus Olimpia prevailed over Virtus Bologna, 103-87, returning to a 50 percent win rate in Read More »
