It was a weird game at the Mediolanum Forum, which Venice won 87-86 with a tip-in scored with 0.2 seconds left in the game by Michael Bramos. It was a very strange game, with a dominant and devastating Olimpia in the first quarter. Venice took the lead in the third, leading by as many as six points. But in the fourth Olimpia regained control, executed well, defended well and took away, leading by nine with 100 seconds left. From that moment almost everything went wrong: Olimpia allowed two threes in a row, two free throws were missed and finally, with nine seconds to go, still up by one, a long pass resulted in a turnover that allowed Reyer to score easily with Bramos with no time left to respond one more time. The only positive note: Olimpia had won by three in Venice and therefore retains the advantage in head-to-head games, while Reyer is back within two wins. “We obviously have to take this game in the right context, with the EuroLeague schedule and all – Coach Simone Pianigiani said – so we tried to save energy for some guys and we carefully managed the playing time of others. Still, it was a calculated risk, because even with Mike James on the bench for most of the second half the game was definitely won. Then the sequence of mistakes was unheard of, four or five of them. There’s no time to get angry over it, things happen. I didn’t call a time-out, because I didn’t want them to get ready defensively and we know what to do. There’s nothing to add”.