Armoni Brooks stole the show in Cremona’s Monday Night with an impressive game. He scored 31 points, went 7-for-10 on threes and made two thunderous dunks in the process showing his two-way game. Olimpia defeated Vanoli 95-83, leading for the vast majority of the game. The biggestlead was 18 points late in the second quarter. Cremona went all-out in the third reduced the gap and was able to take a one-point lead twice in the fourth. But Olimpia finished better. “We felt the fatigue a little bit in the third period after a game that we played well overall – Coach Ettore Messina said – we didn’t have two point guards, Shavon Shields returned with very limited playing time, we were coming off a demanding EuroLeague week, playing on the road again against an aggressive team. We felt the fatigue in the third but we bounced back in the fourth, moving the ball an playing defense again.”

With Leandro Bolmaro out with an injury and Neno Dimitrijevic affected by flu-like symptoms, Nico Mannion came up big down the stretch. he finished with 10 points and six assists, including a huge corner three. Diego Flaccadori amde a big play in the fourth when he intercepted a cross-court pass and went off on the break. Nikola Mirotic added 17 points in 23 minutes; Pippo Ricci was huge with 11 points and nine rebounds, he touched a lot of balls; Zach LeDay had 11 points. But the night belonged to Brooks.

He missed the first three against the zone defense implemented by Cremona early in the game. Then, he was a monster. He scored 11 points in the first quarter and set the tone for the rest of the game. While down the stretch he had a lot of offensive help, he made some huge field goals. At the end he had a curtain call from the bench.