Who’s unbeaten? Not the Barcelona team, a great, great team, who came in Milano without the Euroleague All-Time best scorer, Juan Carlo Navarro, and became the last team to lose a game in the Top 16 after 12 consecutive wins. In spite of being without this season leading scorer, Keith Langford, EA7 Emporio Armani not only won the game, but swept the great Barcelona team away between the end of the first (CJ Wallace making a three at the buzzer) and the following quarters when the 12331 attending the game saw an unprecedented kind of show. It was the seventh consecutive Euroleague win for Olimpia, validating its second place, keeping the perfect record in the second half of the schedule and enjoyed a terrific game with the Captain Gentile, a devastating Sam Samuels and Danie Hackett’s motor when Olimpia took the leade convincingly and never looke back. 91-63 the finale score.

THE FIRST HALF – Barcelona starts with an Abrines’ three, goes up 5-0 and 7-2, then Olimpia responds. Two field goals by Gentile, two dunks by Samuels but the go-ahead basket is voided by a couple of Huertas jumpers. After six minutes is 10-12 Barcelona. Gentile leads the team surpassing, Samuels shows his muscles inside, EA7 goes up by four twice, the last one is 18-14. Barcelona earns free throws and makes a 6-0 run and retakes the lead, 20-18. But CJ Wallace at the buzzer unloads the 21-20’s three. Oleson with a three-point play pushes Barcelona up again early in the second. The Blaugranas jump up by four using their physical supremacy inside. Maciej Lampe makes the short jumper. But Bruno Cerella from the corner makes a three and Hackett with a drive completes the 5-0 run for a new lead. Coach Pascual doesn’t call a time-out and Olimpia keeps pushing, making one more 7-0 run with a Jerrells’ three, a Lawal’s dunk on a break and a tremendous Hackett’s drive. The score is 35-27 in the middle of the second but after two more tricks by Hackett it’s in double digit, 40-29. Jerrells extends the lead to 12, 43-32 before Lorbek getting his team within nine, 43-34 Olimpia at the half.

THE SECOND HALF – Barcelona was kept scoreless more than three minutes, the lead blows up to 15 points, 51-36, after a couple of terrific Alessandro Gentile’s baskets. And when, on perfect time, Samardo Samuels makes the three, EA7 is getting away, 54-36 after 4’25” in the second period. And this time coach Pascual stops the game. But it’s not enough, because Samuels dominates both ends of the floor, Gentile is on fire and pushes the lead to an incredible 59-36. But it’s not over, there are standing ovations for Gentile and Samuels when they return to the bench for a turn of rest and the margin is unreal, 69-40 at the end of the third with Jerrells scoring a three at the buzzer. The fourth quarter is showtime for Olimpia. Gentile takes the opportunity to surpass the 20-point barrier for the first time in his Euroleague career.