{"id":52483,"date":"2023-06-20T15:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.demo.olimpia.iquii.info\/?p=52483"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T12:14:20","slug":"game-6-is-next-it-is-potentially-close-out-and-because-of-that-it-will-be-the-hardest-to-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olimpiamilano.com\/en\/game-6-is-next-it-is-potentially-close-out-and-because-of-that-it-will-be-the-hardest-to-get\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 6 is next, it is potentially close-out and because of that it will be the hardest to get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Game 6 is next.<\/strong>&nbsp;Up to now the home-court advantage&nbsp;has always been respected: Olimpia, in best-of-seven series, has always win its championships getting a win on the road&nbsp;(in Siena in 2014 in Game 6 but&nbsp;entering the game down 3-2; in Reggio Emilia in 2016; in Trento in 2018; in Bologna in 2022, but it took place in Game 1) and&nbsp;it won two of the last three titles, winning it on the road. However, Virtus has its back against the wall and close-out games are always the hardest to win. Over the last three seasons, Olimpia has won seven out of nine close-out games, but lost one of those two in Bologna against a team that has been 17-1 at home in the playoffs over the&nbsp;last three seasons. The level of difficulty of this game is clear, especially after a travel day. In the last two games, Olimpia had two double doubles from Nicol\u00f2 Melli (second and third of his career in&nbsp;championship series games) and two &#8220;over 20&#8221; games from Shavon Shields (the fifth and sixth of his career in the Italian finals). Olimpia has built its last two games around the two of them, and getting important&nbsp;help from many different players. After Game 5 Coach Ettore Messina underlined the second half&nbsp;played by Shabazz Napier, the energy coming&nbsp;off the bench&nbsp;from Pippo Ricci and Paul Biligha, the changes made to the starting line-up and to the rotation, but he also anticipated Bologna&#8217;s adjustments. Billy Baron has made at least on three in 21 of his last 22 games and has been consistent throughout the playoffs. So far, Olimpia has grabbed 193 rebounds&nbsp;against 159 and held Virtus to 31.6&nbsp;percent shooting from three. On this data&nbsp;it built the current lead. But each&nbsp;game&nbsp;was different from the others, with different protagonists, as it is expected at the end of the season. The&nbsp;game in Bologna will be number 79 of the season. Olimpia practiced at the Mediolanum Forum in the afternoon before leaving for Bologna in the evening. Tip-off time is 20:30 on Wednesday, Game 7, if necessary, will be played on Friday night in Milan.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lFzN2zMM-Vo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p><strong><em><u>GAME NOTES<\/u><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Shavon Shields has now scored 420 points in championship series games througout his Italian career and sits fourth all-time behind the great Roberto Premier. He is the 8th Olimpia&#8217;s leading scorer in the playoffs, right ahead of Nicol\u00f2 Melli. The Captain, however, has just become the fifth best all-time defensive rebounder for Olimpia, moving ahead of John Gianelli. He is already the third-best shot-blocker and appeared in his 58th playoff game for Olimpia. Only Mike D&#8217;Antoni and Dino Meneghin have more.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52987416133_69c457f78d_k.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shavon Shields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game 6 is next.&nbsp;Up to now the home-court advantage&nbsp;has always been respected: Olimpia, in best-of-seven series, has always win its championships getting a win on the road&nbsp;(in Siena in 2014 in Game 6 but&nbsp;entering the game down 3-2; in Reggio Emilia in 2016; in Trento in 2018; in Bologna in 2022, but it took place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"tipo_news":[18,198],"class_list":["post-52483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tipo_news-news_generali","tipo_news-news_generali-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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