Samardo Samuels a club-record for most points in a Top 16 game scoring 36 of them in leading Olimpia to a commanding 85.76 win over Nizhny Novgorod. It’s the second team road win in the Top 16. Samuels scored 27 points in the first half, grabbed also 9 rebounds and drawed 12 fouls on his way to a terrific performance that pulverized his previous personal best. Since he came to Olimpia he never scored more than 23 points in a game and it happened in the Italian league. He surpassed that total in the first half alone. He played 32 minutes of devastating basketball. Olimpia led practically all game, by as many as 15 points in the first half, and kept Nizhny at distance in the second half. The Russians got within two on a couple of circumstances but never tied the game up. Olimpia had an important defensive game and made the crucial plays. Even from three, in a ice-cold night, it was capable to make then when they counted the more. In the fourt, one came from Hackett (12 points and 9 assists) and one from MarShon Brooks that basically closed the game. Olimpia was without Alessandro Gentile: it was stopped by nausea and stomachache. He dressed but was unable to get up and play.