The day started on a bad note (Fabien Causeur – back – was not available), continued on an even worse note (David McCormack – right knee – was out too) and finally, with all the three centers on the sideline, Olimpia showed its weak side in the first half, going down by 21 (46-25 at the intermission), too deep a hole to come out better. “Our first half was a shame – Coach Ettore Messina admitted – the lack of competitiveness, the lack of desire of doing things together was hard to watch.” The second half was much better, especially a 34-point third quarter when Olimpia managed to come back from 21 points behind to five. It was more a nervous answer than anything. Efes never lost its poise, used its size and won convincingly 96-84. Nikola Mirotic led the scorers with 29 points, 23 in the second half. Armoni Brooks was instrumental in the third quarter come back and finished with 12 points. Zach LeDay added 16 and seven rebounds.