Olimpia showed a lot of promising signs in Istanbul. For 34 minutes it competed head to head with Efes and in the middle of the fourth quarter was down by one. Unfortunately the last five minutes were marred by turnovers, rushed shots and a couple of defensive breakdowns. The final score, 89-73, was an  absurd and didn’t tell the truth about the game. Olimpia survived a 9/12 three-point shooting first half by Efes, was within one at the half and led again the third, so a lot of things were good against a top team. “But we don’t have to be satisfied when we lose even after playing well for most of the games. We don’t have to sign up for this, our attitude should be different. We are a big team and we go to places like this one to win. That’s what we need to do”, says Milan Macvan who had a huge game scoring 18 points and grabbing 9 rebounds. Alessandro Gentile also had a fantastic game in which he scored 22 points and did a lot of spectacular plays, also drawing seven fouls. Olimpia had some great spurts then had a physical breakdown at the end when finally Derrick Brown broke loose and Bryant Dunston came up big sustaining the great game played by Alex Tyus throughout the night. “I was satisfied after the first half – says Coach Jasmin Repesa – in spite of them shooting extremely well from the arc. We need to extend the minutes of energy and we need desperately to practice in order to fix this. In the last six or seven minutes we didn’t have the energy to control the game, to execute offensively, to stop their fastbreak”.