Bologna –
Here comes Olimpia, the game that nobody wants to lose. Reduced by the recent shock of Sassari, Milan has lost the supremacy in the league after 24 days but it remains a fearsome and armored opponent. Having left the big names Gigi Datome and Kostas Mitoglou on the road in the last period, we’ll see if Sergio Rodriguez (11.7 points and 5.8 assists) and Malcolm Delaney (11.5 points and 3.5 assists), MVP in the Final Eight of the Coppa Italia, can shine in the midfield, while in the area we should hang on the muscles of Ben Bentil, who arrived in the running from Varese, and who travels with 5.8 caroms and Nicolò Melli with 5.2.
A complex mosaic, often ruled by the thermometer Kyle Hines, that gives the third best attack of the championship (84 points), the second best percentage in the three-point shooting (38,6%) and the ability to have more fouls than anyone else (16,4) sublimating a rearguard in which Milan is first in points taken (68,5) and fourth in defensive rebounds taken (25,8). Complete team, plethoric, the Olimpia of the turnover in the championship often passes the baton to the tricolor team where Tommaso Baldasso (four times in double figures in the last two months), Davide Alviti and Paul Biligha offer the best answers. The last outings, however, show a team with a variable performance that, after defeating Villeurbanne with the second line, alternates great nights (Efes, Varese, Bayern) to evident drops (Maccabi, Monaco, Sassari), defensively fragile on the weak side, offensively less careful on the lost balls in the last fractions.
