Banvit launched an all-out assault on Olimpia, had a great start and extended the lead to 12 points early in the third but Olimpia was simply tougher and resisted physically. After allowing Banvit to shoot at 60 percent from three and to dominate the boards, Coach Repesa went to aggressive zone, played small and the defense picked it up basically disrupting Banvit’ s rhytm in the second half. In the end it won with a lot of energy and heart more than with a sound game. 79-76 was the score and Olimpia advanced to the quarterfinals where it will play Trento. “These games are difficult if you don’t start right – Repesa said at the end – because you cannot afford to lose and you easily get nervous. The approach was weong and in the first half we couldn’t do nothing right. Second half was different in terms of energy and defensive efficiency. Now we are anxious to work together and to recover Gentile first and then Jenkins because more players will allow us to have more energy on defense out on the perimeter where it all starts”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Banvit launched an all-out assault on Olimpia, had a great start and extended the lead to 12 points early in the third but Olimpia was simply tougher and resisted physically. After allowing Banvit to shoot at 60 percent from three and to dominate the boards, Coach Repesa went to aggressive zone, played small and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"tipo_news":[18],"class_list":["post-34884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tipo_news-news_generali"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n