Alessandro Gentile started and Joe Ragland with a couple of clutch threes finished. Olimpia won in Pistoia a playoff-caliber battle 79-73, coming back from a 10-point deficit in the first half. Gentile scored 14 points in the first quarter and finished with 25 drawing 9 fouls – a career high – and grabbing 9 rebounds, a season high. He was everywhere including at the defensive end of the court where he had to compensate for David Moss absence. Ragland made the clinching threes in the end, Samardo Samuels used all his power in the middle and Olimpia won its tenth game in a row in the Italian league.