A nightmare night finished the way it started with a painful 77-72 defeat in the Italian Cup championship game. Napoli won deservedly after leading most of the night with margin going back and forth between three, five, seven, nine points. Olimpia made its moved very late trying to shake off a terrible offensive night making Read More »
A 10-three pointer first half that included 14 assists and two buzzer-beating three, the first by Stefano Tonut and the second by Shavon Shields, propelled Olimpia to a commanding 100-77 win over Venezia in its Italian Cup semifinal game. Olimpia broke the game open in the middle of the first period, because of a couple Read More »
Olimpia and Reyer faced each other one time during the season. It dates back to the first part of the regular season but it was played at the Forum and the teams were very different from what they are now. Reyer did not yet have Heidegger and Kabengele, and Marco Spissu was injured and not Read More »
Olimpia took the game in the second period when the defense held Trento to six points and the margin blossomed up to 16 points at the half. The rest was history in a 80-57 triumph in the Italian Cup quarterfinals. "Defense and easy transition field goals allowed us to take a good lead and to Read More »
Billy Baron, who currently is undergoing a period of treatment and more evaluations, has to be considered indefinitely out. Read More »
Olimpia will be the first team involved in the 2024 Italian Cup's Final Eight in Turin. In the quarterfinals, it will face Trento, "and this is where our attention is at the time," Coach Ettore Messina said upon leaving Milan after practice. "It is a very important competition that everybody wants to win, but as Read More »
Olimpia's defense took over the game early and won over Brindisi 69-55. Brindisi led at the end of the first period by one, that after leading by three early in the second, Olimpia placed a 9-0 run that essentially put the game under control. "We did an excellent defensive job over their scoring guards and Read More »
The last game before the Italian Cup Final Eight is taking place the Forum, against Brindisi, a very different team compared to the one beaten on its home court a few weeks earlier. The Apulian team has since added Jeremy Senglin and Frank Bartley, significantly increasing its perimeter talent level. Despite being involved in the Read More »
Toward the end of last Thursday's game against Real Madrid, Maodo Lo sprained his right ankle. The injury will be re-evaluated in two weeks. Read More »
“I was sure I would become a football player. Growing up, I only played football and that was the only thing that I really cared about. But at 11 years of age, I was in junior high school, my best friends, my group of friends, when football season was over, I saw them all going Read More »
