{"id":35771,"date":"2020-12-10T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.demo.olimpia.iquii.info\/olimpia-is-staying-on-the-road-in-barcelona-messina-we-face-a-team-with-enormous-talent\/"},"modified":"2020-12-10T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:55:03","slug":"olimpia-is-staying-on-the-road-in-barcelona-messina-we-face-a-team-with-enormous-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olimpiamilano.com\/en\/olimpia-is-staying-on-the-road-in-barcelona-messina-we-face-a-team-with-enormous-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Olimpia is staying on the road in Barcelona, Messina: “We face a team with enormous talent”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the third road win, in Khimki, scoring 102 points, the level of difficulty for Olimpia rises further as the second of four consecutive road games is in Barcelona, \u200b\u200b<\/strong>against the team that leads the EuroLeague with a 9-3 record. The fact that Barcelona has lost two of the last three games, and for the first time lost at Palau does not make the game easier, quite the contrary. Barcelona is second in terms of points awarded, just 71.9 per game, and is a team capable of enormous talent. Nikola Mirotic is first in two-point shooting percentage with an almost unsustainable 78.6 percent and produces 16.1 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. A 319-game man with 12.3 points per game in the NBA, with an important past at Real Madrid, Mirotic is clearly the star of a team that can count on several top players, including the best three-point shooter, Kyle Kuric (69.7%), the MVP of the last Final Four played (Cory Higgins), the second best passer in the entire EuroLeague history (Nick Calathes), another former NBA shooter (Alex Abrines) and Brandon Davies among others.<\/p>\n

OLIMPIA<\/u><\/em><\/strong> – After scoring 102 points in Moscow, Olimpia became the league-leading scoring team, averaging 83.5 points per game, and is also the best three-point shooting team with 41.8 percent, the only one over 40 percent. Michael Roll and Shavon Shields are among the top ten in the individual rankings and Kevin Punter (52.3 percent) is not yet included, due to the only six appearances, but is shooting as one of the best. Punter is currently the team top scorer with 15.3 points per game, has always scored in double figures and has been instrumental as a closer, just like Malcolm Delaney, who\u2019s averaging 10.9 points and 4.6 assists per game. Shields obviously is just coming off his Khimki\u2019s impressive performance (career record of points and rating), but the game had several clutch players. including Kaleb Tarczewski\u2019s thunderous start. The 102 points scored in Moscow tied Olimpia’s fifth best offensive performance during the EuroLeague\u2019s era and represent the best road scoring game with no overtime. The 28 assists, on the other hand, represent the second performance ever after the 29 dished in an Olimpia-Maccabi game in 2016. But it is even more relevant that Olimpia is still the team with fewest turnovers in the competition, just 10.6 per game.<\/p>\n