Olimpia is in deep water in the Italian league championship series. “To say we are in a hole is an understatement,” Coach Ettore Messina said after Game 2. In fact, Virtus Bologna is leading the best-of-seven series 2-0 and now the series is moving to Bologna for Game 3 and 4. Olimpia will have to improve dramatically its shooting accuracy to stay alive, since the team went 40-for-120 from the field in the first two games. Olimpia made 11 threes in Game 2, made up a little for its bad shooting by attacking off the dribble and earning trips to the line, but it wasn’t enough. Game 2 was a close one for the three quarters and half. Olimpia scored just 13 points in the fourth, used its defense to stay close, but several opportunities to take the lead were fruitless. And when Markovic and Pajola made two straight threes the margin became all of a sudden a seven-point hole, impossible to come back from. Olimpia has to look at its past, at what was able to do during the season, at the 10 big road wins conquered during the EuroLeague season, at the many road wins conquered in the Italian league, the last one in Venezia early last week. During the season, Olimpia was able to win twice in Bologna against Virtus and just to make things look a little better, during the entire season is 5-0 in the city of Bologna. Obviously, this is a different story. Virtus is undefeated in the playoffs, its morale is high, and Milan is coming off a grueling 90-game season. That’s a fact, just like Malcolm Delaney being forced to miss Game 3 because a left hip injury.