The first round scudetto is Olimpia Milano’s
The first round scudetto è of the'Olimpia Milano
The’EA7 Emporio Armani Milano won game-1 of the scudetto final against Virtus Bologna by defeating the Segafredo Arena 86-75 after an overtime.
It is the V Nere that start the match better and the first quarter they end it ahead 19-14 after being forò even on +9, 18-9. At the’beginning of the second quarter, the lead expands to +11, 25-14 and 27-16, and at the’long halftime the score è 33-25 for the hosts.
As often happens in basketball, the’beginning of the second half of the game è opposite to the first: in fact, Olimpia with a partial of 16-3 completely overturns the situation and when only the last ten minutes è ahead 54-48. In the’last quarter Virtus tied on 61 at 4’08” from the end with two free throws by Gabriel Lundberg.
It goes on point to point, at 65-65 Isaia Cordinier makes one of two from the lunette and then scores from two, Shabazz Napier puts in the tying triple with 33 seconds to the buzzer, then Lundberg at -11 and Napier on the other side at -3 miss the winning shot and it then goes to the overtime.
At this point Shavon Shields, a real match winner, takes the lead with three threes to the decisive stretch that brings Ettore Messina’s team to bring the court factor on their side, but Dvon Hall, with 7 points only in the overtime, is not to be outdone.
Shields è obviously the top scorer of the match with 25 points (and 6 of 7 from three!), Napier closes with 21 and Hall with 18, while for Virtus there are 16 points and 8 rebounds by Tornike Shengelia. Saturday at 8:30 p.m. will be played again in Bologna.
