Olimpia gets remounted again: Udine celebrates. Poeta "very bitter"

Heavy setback in LBA for Olimpia Milano, overcome in Udine 86-83 in a game valid for the 23rd day of the championship. The hosts, down by 6 at halftime at PalaCarnera, managed to come back and overcome the meneghini in the second half, especially in the last quarter. Twenty-five points for Christon, best for the Friulians, and Alibegovic (16). For Milan, a 19-point Mannion was not enough.

This defeat, the second in three games, leaves Milan stuck in fourth place in the standings at 32 points. Udine, on the other hand, breaks a streak of three consecutive knockouts and climbs back up to 18 points in 10th place, -2 from the playoff zone.

Milan coach Peppe Poeta is disappointed with yet another comeback suffered: “I’m very bitter because it was another game lost in the same way. In the last five minutes we lacked consistency, cynicism and in general giving value to every possession. This is our problem: we don’t have a sense of the value of each possession, which is what allows you to go from plus ten to plus twelve, from plus twelve to plus fourteen. Instead, we don’t close games.”

Udine coach Adriano Vertemati commented on his team’s victory as follows. “I am happy for this beautiful audience, for our president. It’s the guys who deserve it, it’s not easy to always get close and then never make it. Bravo. We have done well so many times on this field of ours, and today we were, I use a word we like a lot, resilient. We didn’t play well for three quarters but we were resilient. While in the last quarter we found our way, both front and back, we were good at the end and finally, even a little bit lucky.”