After a disappointing season in which Olimpia Milan He stayed again outside the playoff of the Euroleague, The Italian team focuses its efforts on an Italian league in which it hopes to revalidate the title it reaped last season.
The team of Ettore Messina He focuses everything in the domestic league after having finished in the eleventh position with a balanced balance of 17 victories and 17 losses, confirming as one of the disappointments of the course in the continental competition. Something that has stopped news of these last seasons, but that does not escape a disappointing destination for a template that is designed to Attack high levels in the Euroleague, But that has not achieved it for years.
The Virtus finished first, while Olimpia Milano was confirmed with the fifth place
In Italy the playoffs are already underway for the title. Virtus Bolonia, With a balance of 23 wins and seven stumbling blocks, The regular phase ended in first position. They were followed with 22 victories Trapani Shark (2nd), Brescia (3rd) y Trento (4º), while Olimpia Milano had to settle for finishing in the fifth place (20-10), a practically identical situation to which the Barça in the Endesa League. Trieste, Reggiana y Venice They complete the list of title candidate teams.
Ettore Messina still can unable to lift your team / EFE
Drawed series between Olimpia Milano and Trent
Nikola Mirotic and company had to face the Trento in the quarterfinals. Unlike ACB, The first round of the playoff is the best of five games, while in Spain it is a maximum of three meetings. So far, it is a series of maximum equality: the Milanese took the court factor in the first game after imposing themselves at home 70-73, while in the second assault, Trent achieved 1-1 by winning for three points (70-67), After an action in which the Hispanic-Montenegrino was the protagonist.
Mirotic numbers
So far this season in Italy, Mirotic averages 15.7 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. In the first two commitments of the playoff, Olimpia Milano's '33' has registered, on average, 13 points and 7.5 rebounds. Last night, with 67-64 on the scoreboard, Mirotic scored a triple in the absence of a long minute to finish the game and matched the score. Errors occurred in the following attacks, including a failure of the virtually Barca Catalan Excapitan that had practically been definitive.
An unfortunate action
But if Mirotic already had bad luck in that action, The end of the game was terribly cruel to him. With 67-67, there is already five seconds, the wing began to throw the ball towards the other field, to try to get as much as possible to the hoop and try to avoid the extension. The problem was that Mirotic headed towards one of the sides of the track, so that, after being closed by the defense of Trent, He gave the ball to the rival team. At that time it appeared Myles hold, That after taking the ball, he got up from the line of three moving and with one hand.
An implausible triple
And the palatrent exploded after a Huge triple that the player himself could not believe, and with which they had to resign Both Mirotic and the rest of their classmates, who could not successfully achieve the mission of stealing the two games at home.
Without much time to regret, the series continues. This Sunday 22, at 8:45 p.m. in the Medialanum Forum of Milan.
