In a game with many runs, Trieste attempted to get away at least three times, leading by as many as eight points. Still, Olimpia responded every single time and in fourth quarter got away to take home the 65-59 win. In a ice cold shooting night, Olimpia came up on top because its defense won the game in the second half. Trieste was held to 24 second half points and only eight in the fourth quarter. The Italian league leading-scorer Frank Bartley was kept at nine points and the potent scorer off the bench, Frank Gaines, had only three points. “It was the fourth game in seven days, we couldn’t hit a shot, but my players were able to play with great attention, concentration and desire. Trieste is athletic, well organized, was playing really well, so it wasn’t easy to score against them. But we managed to win anyway. The poster-boy of the win is Pippo Ricci, who came in in the second half and never came out because he played very, very well both ends of the floor,” Coach Ettore Messina said. Ricci on top of defending everywhere on the floor, hit a terrific three in the fourth quarter the ignited the decisive run, completed by a terrific right-handed bank shot made by Devon Hall. Shabazz Napier, who finished with 13 points, controlled the tempo at the end when Olimpia used Nicolò Melli as a nominal 5 and the first half struggles to contain the athleticism of Skylar Spencer and especially the newcomer Emanuel Terry went away. Tim Luwawu-Cabarrot added 12 points and Gigi Datome had eight points starting both halves. His second half was really good offensively.