Milan grants encore with chill: Virtus Bologna also beaten in game-2
Milan grants encore with chill: Virtus Bologna also beaten in game-2
At the Mediolanum Forum in Assago, EA7 Emporio Armani Milano also won game 2 of the scudetto finals against Virtus Segafredo Bologna but what a struggle! 79-76 the score for Olimpia that manages to keep the advantage of the court factor bringing itself on 2-0 before the transfer of the series in the capital of Emilia. For Ettore Messina’s boys 18 points by Shavon Shields, for Sergio Scariolo’s 17 by Tornike Shengelia.
Very balanced game from the very beginning even if it’s Virtus to start it better closing the first quarter on 17-14 and then getting even to +7 margin, but then Milan with a partial of 18-8 arrives at halftime ahead 38-35, and in the third quarter stretches further on +10. However, the V Nere never let up and pulled back to -3, 57-54, before the last ten minutes.
The hosts re-along and at 72-65 with 5’29” to go to the buzzer it seems to be over but here the guests post an 8-0 partial that puts them back ahead by a length even though Shengelia misses one of two free throws with 1’47” to go. The last 107 seconds are heart-pounding: triple of the final overtake by Shields, zero on two from the lunette by Shengelia, two on two by Shields from the charity line, one on two by both Daniel Hackett and Isaia Cordinier, then, with 5 seconds to go, Nicolò Melli’s two on two at the free, with Milos Teodosic missing the triple of the possible overtime at the siren.
