Armoni Brooks turns the game around, a 90-80 Olimpia win, snatching it from the hands of JP Macura who had dominated it for three quarters, one three after another, leading Treviso to unexpected leads, 15 points the largest, but still 12 in the middle of the third quarter. Olimpia went to another gear on defense towards the end of the third quarter and for the entire final period holding the opponent to 27 points in the second half. And when Brooks got into his shooting rhythm everything changed. After reducing the deficit to six points at the end of the third, he scored another long-range jumper at the beginning of the fourth and finally with two more threes he pushed Olimpia ahead for the first time in a game played in constant pursuit. Once Olimpia got ahead, it never looked back. Zach LeDay’s work of energy and substance (he finished with 17 points and four steals, the points scored by Flaccadori during a critical moment of the third quarter (he had 11) sustained Brooks’ outburst in the fourth quarter that earned him 27 points on 7-for-11 three-point shooting. “What I liked the most of his game – Coach Ettore Messina said – was the way he used the screens to get open and how he attacked the rim, incuding the dunk that essentially closed the game at the end. For him, it is always a matter of finding the right match-up defensively and to resist the physicality of the game which is different in a EuroLeague environment.”

