Everything happened and was decided in a matter of seconds. The game was tied at 67 with 24 seconds left when Trento, following a time-out, worked the ball to eat time and take a shot to win the game or force overtime. Olimpia, as it did for the entire fourth quarter, erected a wall, obscured the valley and allowed only a long three with Jordan Ford that hit the rim and went out. Nikola Mirotic put his hand to the ball, kept it alive and finally grabbed it. With three seconds left, he drove away from the paint, toward the sideline in an attempt to draw a foul or earn the room necessary to take a prayer. Jordan Bayehe, Trento’s center, forced him to drive to the left, he led him toward the sideline. Mirotic lost balance, went down, no foul was called. The ball rolled unattended. Myles Cale took it from the ground and launch a shot that found the net. That was how Trento won Game 2, 70-67, tied the best-of-five series at 1. Game 3 is scheduled to be played on Thursday in Milan, Game 4 will be played on Satuday.

The game was another fistfight right from the beginning. Olimpia struggled all night long to connect with the net, shooting really bad both inside and from outside. Only Diego Flaccadori, 13 points, showed some accuracy. That was why Trento led by as many as ten points early in the third quarter. Olimpia responded with a 10-0 run in one of the very few moments the offense found any rhythm. However, Trento regained the lead immediately.

In the fourth quarter, Olimpia used its defense to stay in the game and gradually, despite many misses, including three throws out of four in a critical juncture of the game, got closer and closer. Finally, on a Mirotic long three tied the game up. At that point, Olimpia had a couple of chances to take the lead but couldn’t executive well or convert leaving the door open for the Myles Cale miracle.