Euroleague, Milan’s incredible collapse with Zalgiris, Ettore Messina apologizes

Euroleague, Milan’s incredible collapse with Zalgiris, Ettore Messina apologizes

Incredible defeat of Olimpia Milano, the third in four Euroleague games. At the Assago Forum, the EA7 Emporio Armani lost 85-82 to Zalgiris Kaunas after leading by 27 lengths.

The first two quarters went fairly smoothly for the Italian champions, who closed them on 24-17 and 49-31. At the end of the third quarter Messina’s team è on 66-48 but è was also 60-33, 62-35 and 64-37.

È in the’last fraction that happens the’incredible: first a partial of 0-8, oi, from 79-67 to 3’29” from the siren there’è the total collapse, with a final partial of 3-18. For Milan 17 points and 11 rebounds by Nikola Miotic, for the Lithuanians coached by Andrea Trinchieri 21 points by Dovydas Giedraitis.

“We have to apologize for the horrible 15’ we played. They believed in it, we just have to apologize. 
We were a joke tonight. Had 25’ very good, maybe the best of the season. Then we stopped. We went back to zero”.