Olimpia’s defense took over tremendously starting from the second quarter and built the win in Brindisi, with a commanding 79-53 triumph, improving its Italian league record to 10-0. Brindisi made five threes in the first quarter, when Olimpia struggled especially at the offensive end on the floor (3-for-15 from the field and five turnovers). The locals went up by 12 at the end of the first. Enter Olimpia’s defense. Brindisi scored 32 points the rest of the game, when Olimpia outscored by 38 points. Nicolò Melli was a defensive monster, holding the league leading scorer Nick Perkins to a 5-point nightmare. Kyle Hines supported him, too. When gradually Olimpia found its offense, the game was pretty much over. “We are not in a good period and since we have players with a lot of heart when the things are not going well, they took it personally. This is why we started stuttering like we were almosta scared. Devon Hall and Ben Bentil kept us in the game, then our defense was the defense we had until two weeks ago and we outscored a very good team, on a tough atmosphere, by thirty points, which is unrealistic,” Coach Ettore Messina said. Devon Hall led the scorers with 18 points, he went 4-for-5 from threes, Malcolm Delaney added 11 points. Delaney and Rodriguez had some maervelous minutes together. “They played a very aggressive game,” Messina added. Olimpia put the game to bed, when Rodriguez scored on three consecutive possessions, driving through the lane, right when the defense sustained the team’s effort. In the end, Olimpia kept defending strong and the margin was magnified.