Olimpia started the game behind 5-0, then it placed an impressive 20-0 run through two timeouts and never looked back on its way to a 80-69 win. Olimpia led by as many as 22 points, but Bayern answered back in the second half, led by Wade Baldwin’s 23 points. They came within six in the third quarter, but Milan never lost its composure, defended strong and rebounded the ball well and finished the game in a timely manner. Kevin Punter led the scorers with 20 points in 20 minutes, but many different players did a great job, starting with Malcolm Delaney early, Segrio Rodriguez throughout the game and Shavon Shields who completed two three-point plays and scored what wa sprobably the most important field goal of the game. In the second half, when Bayern with a 10-0 run mounted a comeback, he slashed through the defense and scorerd a big basket. Zach LeDay then closed the game off in the fourth when Paul Zipser with two threes shrank the lead to eight again. He made a corner three, opened up 11 points and that was it. “My players really played hard and built a very good lead in the first half, playing a complete game at both ends – Coach Ettore Messina said at the end -. And then it’s never easy to keep the lead in games like this. Games like this you don’t start the second half and go up 30. It might happen in the regular season but not in a playoffs game. Of course they came back. The game became extremely physical. We lost our way for some moments but we got our composure back and most importantly we defended and rebounded. That kept our lead in double digits. We earned the right to play Game 5. We’ll see what happens in the next game.”