Real Madrid put its hands on the game early with its physicality, with Usman Garuba using all the energy to contain Nikola Mirotic and force him to wander out on the perimeter while Tavares dominated the boards. The two bigs combined for 16 points in the first quarter. Real Madrid never looked back, never trailed. Read More »
His first field goals dates back to the night of Novembre 27, 2010, in Charleroi, Belgium. His team, Real Madrid, lost unexpectedly that night, 67-49. However, Nikola Mirotic, who has had two scoreless appearances early in the season, accumulated four points during the game. The first four of his career. In Madrid, last night, he Read More »
The most important week of the EuroLeague season is upon us, in Madrid. Real and Olimpia have the same number of wins, 16, and are part of the group of teams fighting to get direct access to the playoffs and to avoid the immediate elimination with the play-in tournament in the middle as a precious Read More »
After several attempts to get away, leading by as many as 10 points in the second half, with two minutes left in the game, Olimpia found itself tied at 82 with Trento. Give them a lot of credit of coming back time after time in a game Olimpia led from wire to wire saved one Read More »
Awaiting Olimpia on Sunday at the Unipol Forum is a team that has was never beaten in direct clashes this season, clearly in the first in Trento and less emphatically in the Italian Cup championship game. Like the one played last Saturday in Brescia, this is a game with great weight on the standings: by Read More »
Olimpia struggled in Paris right from the beginning. A rough start allowed Paris Basketball to build immediately a 12-point lead that was never relinquished. Olimpia attemped several comebacks in every single quarter but was always affected by tough starts to the periods and finally lost 92-79. It didn't have enough defense against Paris' quickness especially Read More »
Every game is a final, every game is a playoff. These are concepts that are often used in the EuroLeague, sometimes too often. But that is not the case here: with five games remaining, Olimpia goes to Paris to face a team that has the same win-loss record. Eventually, it will have two more rounds Read More »
Playing on short rest, without Nikola Mirotic, with Shavon Shields in a regime of minutes restrictions, Olimpia used all its resources, physically and mentally, to find a way to defeat the league-leading Brescia on its home turf, 79-73. It was a beautiful display of heart and soul because Olimpia couldn't be brilliant but was able Read More »
After a very tough battle in Belgrade, a physical, exhausting game, mentally draining, with small leads and resolved only in the end, by pushing back the last attempt at a comeback mounted by Red Star, Olimpia is back on the road in the Italian league, direction Brescia. It will be a round trip in the Read More »
Nikola Mirotic shows his big heart and big soul! He limps, grimaces, is in pain, but in the end he leaves his indelible mark in all the most important moments of the game including the final seconds in which he gets fouled and makes a free throw. Only one, and it would leave the door Read More »
