Olimpia Milano wins with chill: Messina comments on final blackout

Olimpia Milan wins with a thrill: Messina comments on the final blackout

Olimpia Milano beat Reyer Venezia at the Forum 79-78 in a game valid for the seventh day of Serie A basketball. Messina’s team è imposed itself with a thrill despite a sudden drop in the last quarter.

"I would like to dwell on the first three quarters, which were very good, where we played a good game,” Messina explained.

Then we did not have continuity, we turned off the light. This is not good, we will work on it. But the first three quarters were encouraging. We hope to continue on this team".

Messina reasoned about the possible causes of the final drop: "minutes to players like LeDay, Mirotic and Dimitrijevic. We need everyone. We started to miss easy things on offense and, defensively, we completely took a quarter off. The combination is not è a good thing. I am convinced we will put it".

The Milan coach then took stock of the injuries: "Nebo MRI on Tuesday, but we are far away. There’was a very substantial effusion, which makes it difficult to see the images, they had to wait for the hematoma to be absorbed and then understand. Shields has started moving and shooting, also a checkup this week to get started in basketball. The hope è to have him in the Cremona game for 15 minutes. These are the most delicate cases. Diop, if all goes well, could get some minutes in Friday’s game ".