Olimpia vs Virtus is a game that never needs to be explained, given that it was staged in each of the last four championship finals and has a history behind it that begins in the 1950s when the two most successful teams at national level competed for championships repeatedly. Both come off a defeat in Read More »
"It's been a tough one, because Asvel is very athletic, their guards have the ability to create a lot and sometimes we didn't defend well and we didn't hit open shots," Coach Ettore Messina said at the end of Olimpia's fifth win in a row, 92-84 over Asvel Villeurbanne. "But somehow we kept our composure, Read More »
If Olimpia has won the last four EuroLeague games, tomorrow night's opponent is going through an equally good moment having won the last two games including the first win in their history against Real Madrid. The fact that Paris Lee scored the winning basket says a lot. Asvel Villeurbanne's point guard, a veteran in the Read More »
Fabien Causeur doesn’t care about being 37 year old. He is screaming, hollering, leading and even more significantly he is scoring. Six threes on six attempts, a career-high, all of them when the team needed them including a corner theee at the end of the third quarter that was a back-breaker. Causeur scored 20 points, Read More »
Olimpia's week of passion continues at home, at the Unipol Forum, against Red Star Belgrade. After the big win in Istanbul, the hope was to extend the magical moment by beating Tortona in the Italian league, but instead a painful defeat materialized at the end of a strange game in which Olimpia went down by Read More »
Senegal is known in Africa for its historic political and social stability. It is a country where democracy has always been respected, laws observed, and governments lived up to the people’s expectations. Maybe this is one of the reasons why Senegal has been faster than other African countries to reach some international respectability in basketball. Read More »
Olimpia dug itself a big hole in the first half. Playing with no energy both physically and mentally went down by 25 points, 49-24, in the middle of the second quarter, and was still trailing by 21 at halftime. The big comeback was huge and somehow spectacular but fell short in a 98-94 loss to Read More »
Less than 48 hours after the big win in Istanbul, the fourth win in five years on the Fenerbahce homecourt, Olimpia returns to the Italian league where it has won six of the last seven games. It will play against Tortona with a summary preparation as always in these cases. During the current season it Read More »
Olimpia used a dominant start to the fourth quarter to turn a consistent but limited lead into a huge gap that Fenerbahce couldn't make up for. In the end, it won the third straight EuroLeague game, the fifth of the last six, 91-85. The six-point margin is not reflective of the game. Olimpia led by Read More »
Olimpia has won four of the last five games in the EuroLeague, correcting its position in the standings, but the new game in Istanbul is the most difficult it could face at this time. Fenerbahce, 9-2, is first in the standings and has won its last six games. They have been perfect on the road, Read More »
