Coach Repesa renounced to Esteban Batista and Stanko Barac to keep the defensive pressure high and to overcome the injuty that kept Bruno Cerella out and the rotation short in the back-court. He was right because Olimpia dominated under the board, 30-14 in the first half alone, then the defense kept doing its job and Cremona was gradually disintegrated. After closing the first half up by 14, 45-31, Olimpia started the second half on a 8-0 run, inspired by the physicality of Rakim Sanders. He scored 12 points in the third period alone and EA7 never looked back. The second half became a defensive show. On a sequence, Sanders and Jenkins stole the ball in the backcourt and went on for easy points. It was an impressive game. 90-58 was the final scorer.Now Olimpia will play its Italy Cup final number eight, the second consecutive. It’s a trophy that Olimpia won fourth times in its history, but the last one was twenty years ago, in 1996. Same building, too. Olimpia will face a red-hot Avellino team on a nine.game winning streak. Seven of those game took place in the Italian League, one was in Milano. Avellino also won a Cup, in 2008. Tip-off is at 6.00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Coach Repesa renounced to Esteban Batista and Stanko Barac to keep the defensive pressure high and to overcome the injuty that kept Bruno Cerella out and the rotation short in the back-court. He was right because Olimpia dominated under the board, 30-14 in the first half alone, then the defense kept doing its job and […]<\/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":[198],"class_list":["post-44267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tipo_news-news_generali-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n