The best first quarter of the season, a dominating one at both ends of the floor, didn’t produce a big win over Khimki because in the second half, the EuroLeague’s top scorer, Alexey Shved exploded, scored 29 points for the game but above all made two consecutive contested threes to put Khimki ahead for the first time. Then after Olimpia’s reaction (Milan led the score entering the fourth quarter), down the stretch made an insane 10-meter three with the shot-clock expiring that suck the air out of Olimpia. Khimki won 77-71. “We played a perfect first quarter defensively and offensively. We attacked their switching defense creating the mismatch inside for our bigs, but in the second period we made superficial mistakes and the margin was too small compared to what we had produced. In the second half we stopped the offense, we were mentally impacted by the way we lost the previous couple of games. We were afraid not to close the game and this is what happened. Give Shved a lot of credit but we knew he could make those shots. To win we had to do more offensively. What we lack right now are the two wins we deserved overall in order to have more confidence. Let alone Goudelock because injuries happen”.