Olimpia’s 42nd participation in the Italian championship playoffs begins at the Unipol Forum on Sunday 12 May at 6:00 pm. The quarter-finals are played as a best-of-five match, Game 2 is scheduled for Tuesday at 8:00 pm, same arena. Olimpia arrives at this match after a week of work preceding the post-season spin, with its frenetic pace. In the championship, they won the last seven games and ended the second half of the second half with a record of 13 wins and 2 losses, a good step away from first place. Among the positive notes: in the championship, Olimpia has won the last 10 games played at home and has an absolute streak of 13 wins in a row. In 2024, he has a record of 24-12, 14-1 at home, the last defeat was suffered by Red Star, then came 13 successes. Also in 2024, Olimpia is 10-2 between the EuroLeague and the league in games closed with margins of five points or less. All these numbers speak of a growing second part of the season, which will now have to be validated in the playoffs. The opponent is not the most malleable: Trento, faced four times in the playoffs, beaten three times in the season but in two of them with great difficulty, is a solid team, which had the misfortune of losing Andrejs Grazulis during the season (in addition to Mattia Udom and Niang), but will now include Daulton Hommes, a power forward who played in Cremona and did well in the EuroLeague in Vitoria, and has quality elements, who have established themselves during the year such as Prentiss Hubb and Kamar Baldwin, plus the experience of Paul Biligha and Toto Forray. Game 1 is obviously already a key match to orient the series.
Tap-off tomorrow at the Unipol Forum on Sunday 12 May at 6pm. The words of Ettore Messina: “As always, we approach the series thinking one game at a time. We know that Trento is an athletic team, which tries to open the field to attack with penetrations off the dribble and abundant use of the three-point shot. For us it will be important to defend and control rebounds, as well as balance the use of internal and perimeter play in attack.”
