For the second time in three years, Olimpia faces Brescia in an Italian league semifinal (the third between the two teams including 2018). This season, there have already been four games, all of them very close games, with two winsfor each team. Brescia won the two Italian league games, while Olimpia prevailed in the Super Read More »
Olimpia dominated the third quarter, turning the game around early, and never looked back in a commanding 84-72 win in Reggio Emilia to close the series out, 3-0. After controlling the tempo in the first quarter, Olimpia struggled in the second period allowing Reggiana to score 30 points and building a nine-point lead that was Read More »
Olimpia's first match point is taking place in Reggio Emilia, on the road, and the so-called "closeout games" are always the hardest to win. During the first two games, Olimpia led for practically the entire 40 minutes of each game, and that's encouraging. However, Reggiana never gave up and remained in the game, right to Read More »
Right when momentum of the game seemed to have shifted, maybe for the first time, toward Reggio Emilia, coming back from 13 points down to 2, riding high energy and three-pointers, especially in that moment by Riccardo Rossato, Olimpia responded with the best three minutes of the second half. A 14-2 run closed the game, Read More »
To give full meaning to its convincing Game 1, Olimpia needs to repeat its performance in Game 2, and only then it would truly gain a significant advantage in this quarterfinal series. Reggiana has won 10 of its last 13 Italian league games, but two of those losses came at the hands of Olimpia. In Read More »
Game 1 of the Italian league quarterfinals series was affected deeply by the first quarter and the early offensive explosion produced by Olimpia with both units. The first unit took the first lead, seven and nine points with Shavon Shields setting the tone, and the second one extended the margin with Guduric, Bolmaro and Diop Read More »
For a team ranked sixth in the regular season, Reggiana presents itself as a very tough contender. They've won 10 of their last 12 games, the best pace in the Italian league. The good news is that one of those two losses—the second, in Treviso last Sunday, proved inconsequential—was inflicted by Olimpia 40 days ago, Read More »
Kelvin Sampson, his coach at the University of Houston, once said that Armoni Brooks was the kind of guy everyone would have wanted to marry his daughter. The coach wanted to praise his moral integrity and demeanor: "I was raised well, I come from a very good family, and there are values they instilled in Read More »
He averaged 16.0 points per game in 23.8 minutes on the court, with 21 starts and 28 games played out of 28 games. Above all, Armoni Brooks finished the Italian league regular season with a 66.4 percent two-point shooting percentage, a 37.7 percent three-point shooting percentage on 7.3 attempts per game (his 77 made three-pointers Read More »
Numbers don't describe Leandro Bolmaro's impact on Olimpia’s team. "He has characteristics no one else has, so he's crucial for us," says Coach Peppe Poeta. The Argentine, who wears the number 10 in honor of his idol Diego Armando Maradona, who could have been a star in the long jump and high jump, and who Read More »
