After three championships, Olimpia abdicates. Before this series, it was 26-3 at home in the playoffs over the last five seasons, but it lost twice in a three-day span and was eliminated by Virtus Bologna, 3-1, the same team against which it had won three championships in a row. Bologna will face Brescia in the championship series. Starting from the fifth place in the playoffs, Olimpia had managed to overturn the home court advantage against Trento and then had also snatched it from Virtus by winning Game 2 after having daringly “given back” to the opponent a Game 1 win. Unfortunately, in its fortress, it was unable to finish the job, in front of over 24,000 spectators over the course of two games that hoped to lead the team to the fifth consecutive finals appearance. It did not happen. Bologna played more calmly, when Olimpia got nervous because “elimination games” cannot be anything else, and prevailed 84-78. It was a game with a lot of calls, a lot of contacts, a lot of free throws. Olimpia had scored 29 points in a very promising first period, twice got ahead by 12 at the beginning of the second period but was unable to hit the knock-down punch, allowing Virtus to stay in the game, which was what they wanted to finish the job. Overtime, Olimpia got nervous and nervous, missed several open shots, while the defense was unable to keep Bologna’s movement under control especially when the ball reached Shengelia down low. Nikoa Mirotic with a 30-point losing effort tried to keep Olimpia in contention, down by four entering the last minutes but there was no way to rally.