Olimpia Milano, positive signs from the test with Brescia
Olympia Miano, test with Brescia
At the second game in three days, and there will be another one on Sunday in Vigevano against Hapoel Jerusalem, Coach Ettore Messina has obviously shuffled the cards, moving men and quintets. Fabien Causeur è was kept at rest, è Giordano Bortolani returned, Neno Diitirijevic had played the night before in Zagreb in the memorial game of the great Drazen Petrovic and was not used in the first two quarters and then stopped due to a minor injury to his left ankle. In the first quintet Shields was used at guard and Ricci at small forward with Bolmaro, LeDay and Nebo. After that, both big quintets, with Ricci as nominal small forward, and small ones with three outsides were seen. Brescia è was a physical, athletic opponent with talented players like Della Valle, Rivers, Ivanovic as well as, of course, Miro Bilan. When it shot well, it put Olimpia in trouble; when the level of defense è went up, there were also very interesting moments.
It’s good that in both the first and second of the four periods played by resetting the scoreboard, Olimpia rebounded with some speed; to the opponents’ attempts to stretch; the third period è was the best while in the fourth men were rotated to complete the rotation. For example, in the third Mirotic in six minutes scored 10 points with two triples; then when è he came out came seven virtually consecutive points by Shields. For the three centers è it was a stern test against the experienced and savvy Bilan. Josh Nebo second costume è went strong in rebounding; McCormack finished the game very well (four rebounds in the fourth period, which he did not even play entirely), Ousmane Diop è was convincing against his former teammate. In the second period, he l’ed ahead in the half court and è went for a dunk. It’ was one of the best plays of the game, with an acrobatic reverse by Bortolani in the fourth period.
Otherwise, everyone showed signs of growth approaching the end of the second week of collective work. Diego Flaccadori played very well, especially the second half of the game; Willie Caruso, employed as a power forward, also put up a triple in the fourth quarter; Stefano Tonut è spent himself as usual on the most dangerous outside players especially Della Valle.
Olimpia completes the week Sunday in Vigevano against one of the best teams in Eurocup and the Israeli league, Hapoel Jerusalem. It will be an official competition. Then it will begin the run-up to the real start of the season first with the Crete tournament and then with the Supercup.
