There’s been a stretch during the third quarter capped by a Stefano Tonut’s steal and a Pippo Ricci’s easy two that Olimpia gained momentum and turned a 15-point early in the third period deficit into a one-point gap entering into the fourth. Finally, Olimpia has some good defensive possessions and rode its offense. But it didn’t last. With two days to recover since the last EuroLeague game – while Virtus Bologna had four – the difference in terms of energy was evident in a 104-94 Bologna’s win. “We struggled at containing their one on one, their physiciality and we arrived alwyas late on every fifty-fifty ball,” Coach Peppe Poeta admitted at the end. Olimpia played its customary offensive game, with 18 assists (4 Ellis, Guduric and Shields), had 11 offensive rebounds, against seven, and made twelves threes (3-for-4 for Ricci, 4-for-9 for Brooks) but couldn’t win because Bologna shot 30-for-40 on twos, many field goals were short-range ones. In the end, Bologna won by ten. Both coaches worked around their time-out late in the game to turn the point difference in their favore. Poeta prevailes, for what that means, engineering the last three for Armoni Brooks and saving the 11-point Milan game win. Brooks woke up late in the game but he had a dominant second half with 18 points on his way to score 21, a team-high. However, many key players didn’t have the legs, the energy, to sustain the effort. Ricci was effective especially in the first half. Bolmaro was great in the first until a technical foul sent hom to the bench early, his game partially distrupted. Nothing worked in Olimpia’s favor.