24/09/2023 and las 12:06 CEST
Nikola Mirotic He has not been able to get off to a good start in Milan. Signed as flagship for a renewed project, after the fiasco lived last season in Euroleague, where Ettore Messina and his players were not even able to qualify for the quarter-final playoff, the former Barça player has lived his first disappointment on your new team.
And it is that, Olimpia Milan could not overcome Power of Bologna in the first semi-final of the ‘Super Cup’ Italian, and was defeated by 73-78, in a match that was marked by two important disconnections that those of Luca Banchi to do damage on the scoreboard, and also due to the load of fouls on both Mirotic and Shavon Shields, one more day the best of Milan’s team with 26 points, but ended up eliminated due to fouls.
Mirotic’s game was good in general, and he ended up signing 15 points and 8 rebounds in 29 minutes of play. Yes indeed, He did not have his best afternoon from the triple, as he ended up posting a discreet 1/7 in outside shooting. The meeting served to see Messina’s plans with him, and in some moments, the former Barça player even played on the court at the same time with Nicolò Melli y Johannes Voigtmann, So it would not be surprising to see him playing as a ‘3’ in a few minutes, just as happened in the preseason. At the beginning, Mirotic started as a power forward, with Alex Poythress of ‘5’.
The defeat in the semifinals has parallels with Mirotic’s debut with the Barça shirt. In 2019, and after he left the NBA, the Barça team faced the Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the tournament. In a match played at the Wizink Center, and with a terribly hostile atmosphere, those of Svetislav Pesic fell for 89-79, in a duel in which the Barça ’33’ scored 14 points.
One of the great attractions of the regular phase of the Euroleague will be to live the return of Nikola Mirotic to the Palau Blaugrana. The match against Olimpia Milano will be played next December 15 at 8:30 p.m. (CET), and it will be time, after saying goodbye with a ACB under the arm and ‘MVP’ of the finals, to meet again with the Barça fans.
2023-09-24 10:06:10
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