2020–21 Olimpia Milano season

Olimpia Milano

2020–21 season
Owner	Giorgio Armani
President	Pantaleo Dell'Orco
Head coach	Ettore Messina
Arena	Mediolanum Forum
LBA	1st of 15
0Playoffs	0Runner-up
EuroLeague	3rd
Italian Cup	Winners
Supercup	Winners
PIR leader	Shields 15.3
Scoring leader	Shields 13.7
Rebounding leader	LeDay 5.2
Assists leader	Rodríguez 5.0
Biggest win	+40 64–104 vs Treviso (4 October 2020)
Biggest defeat	−19 81–100 vs Trieste (31 January 2021)
Serie A Euroleague Italian Cup
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The 2019–20 season sees Olimpia Milano competing in both EuroLeague and Lega Basket Serie A. The first is the highest level of European basketball competitions, for which Milano has a license.

Olimpia Milano's 2020–2021 season is sponsored by AX Armani Exchange and it's the 88th consecutive season in the Serie A. It's also Ettore Messina's second year as the team's coach: in his first year Milano was struggling both in Euroleague and Serie A, but at the end due to the COVID-19 pandemic interruptions the team ended the season without any trophy.^{[citation needed]}

The new season starts under the best auspices with the Eurosport Supercup^[1] victory and 8 games won out of 8.^{[citation needed]}

Milano had a great start and by mid November they had a seven game winning streak in the Serie A and just two losses in Euroleague. But the season (especially in the Euroleague) could not proceed as per schedule due to postponed games caused by many players contracting SARS-CoV-2. Milano was forced to interrupt the team activities on 9 November when, after the game against Brescia, several players were tested positive.^[2]

Milano ends at the first place in the standing the first half of the season gaining the unofficial title of "winter champions" and they qualified to the Italian Basketball Cup. They dominated the competition and won the final against Pesaro.^[3]

In the EuroLeague Milano qualified to the playoffs ending the season in the fourth place which gave home advantage. A sensational win against Bayern Munich at the quarterfinals qualified Milano to the Final Four where they lost the semifinals at the last shot against Barcelona. The team will end the competition at the third place winning against CSKA Moscow third place game. The last qualification to a EuroLeague playoff series dates back to the 1991–92 edition.

The Serie A regular season ended with Milano in the first place of the standing, with 22 wins and 6 losses. At the playoffs Milano was the favourite for the title, but at the end things will not turn in the team's advantage: they reached the finals after winning against Dolomiti Energia Trento and Umana Reyer Venezia with a full 3-0 result. But in the final series the players showed signs of weariness from the long season and they lost all of the five matches of the finals against Virtus Segafredo Bologna that won the competition.

• 3 August: Milano starts the summer preparation.^[4]
• 27 August: the season officially starts with the 2020 Italian Basketball Supercup, Milano debuts with a win against Cantù.
• 20 September: Milano wins the Supercup in the final played against Virtus Segafredo Bologna.^[1]
• 27 September: starts the 2020–21 LBA season.
• 2 October: starts the 2020–21 EuroLeague season.
• 9 November: the team activities are suspended after several player were tested positive to SARS-CoV-2.^[2]
• 15 November: the previous COVID tests showed many false positive and Milan, after further tests, resumed the team activities and played the derby against Cantù.^[5]
• 10 January: Milano ends the first half of the season at the first place in the Serie A and gains the unofficial title of "Winter Champions".^[6]
• 14 February: Milano wins the Italian Cup.^[3]
• 31 March: Milano wins over Crvena zvezda and reaches mathematically the playoffs two matches before the end of the Euroleague regular season.^[7]
• 5 May: Milano wins 5-3 the playoff series against Bayern Munich and reaches the Final Four after 14 years.^[8]
• 11 May: Milano ends the regular season winning over Cremona at the first position.^[9]
• 29 May: Milano loses against Barcelona the Final Four Semifinal.^[10] The win over CSKA Moscow will give Milano the 3rd place in the competition.^[11]
• 12 June: Milano loses 4–0 the LBA Finals series against Virtus Bologna.^[12]

Supplier: Armani / Sponsor: Armani Exchange

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AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milano roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age SG 0 Punter, Kevin 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 81 kg (179 lb) 31 – (1993-06-25)25 June 1993 F/C 2 LeDay, Zach 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 103 kg (227 lb) 30 – (1994-05-30)30 May 1994 G 3 Moretti, Davide 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 82 kg (181 lb) 26 – (1998-03-25)25 March 1998 SF 5 Micov, Vladimir 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 39 – (1985-04-16)16 April 1985 G/F 9 Moraschini, Riccardo 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) 103 kg (227 lb) 33 – (1991-01-08)8 January 1991 G/F 10 Roll, Michael 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 92 kg (203 lb) 37 – (1987-04-12)12 April 1987 PG 13 Rodríguez, Sergio 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 38 – (1986-06-12)12 June 1986 C 15 Tarczewski, Kaleb 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 111 kg (245 lb) 31 – (1993-02-26)26 February 1993 F/C 19 Biligha, Paul 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 34 – (1990-05-31)31 May 1990 PG 20 Cinciarini, Andrea (C) 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 38 – (1986-06-21)21 June 1986 G 23 Delaney, Malcolm 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 35 – (1989-03-11)11 March 1989 SF 31 Shields, Shavon 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 30 – (1994-06-05)5 June 1994 PF 32 Brooks, Jeff 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 94 kg (207 lb) 35 – (1989-06-12)12 June 1989 F/C 40 Evans, Jeremy (EL) 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 93 kg (205 lb) 37 – (1987-10-24)24 October 1987 C 42 Hines, Kyle 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 115 kg (254 lb) 38 – (1986-09-02)2 September 1986 F 70 Datome, Luigi 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 101 kg (223 lb) 36 – (1987-11-27)27 November 1987 C 81 Wojciechowski, Jakub (LBA) 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 112 kg (247 lb) 34 – (1990-01-09)9 January 1990	Head coach Ettore Messina Assistant coach(es) Tom Bialaszewski Mario Fioretti Marco Esposito Stefano Bizzozero Legend (C) Team captain (LBA) LBA only (EL) Euroleague only Injured Roster Updated: 11 June 2021

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Kyle Hines	Kaleb Tarczewski	Paul Biligha	Jakub Wojciechowski LBA
PF	Zach LeDay	Luigi Datome	Jeff Brooks	Jeremy Evans EL
SF	Shavon Shields	Vladimir Micov	Riccardo Moraschini
SG	Kevin Punter	Michael Roll	Davide Moretti	Francesco Gravaghi
PG	Malcolm Delaney	Sergio Rodríguez	Andrea Cinciarini

Notes

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from		Type	Ends	Transfer fee	Date	Source
3	G		Davide Moretti	22	Texas Tech Red Raiders		3+2 years	June 2023 + 2025	Free	26 May 2020	[13]
23	G		Malcolm Delaney	31	Barcelona		2 years	June 2022	Free	2 June 2020	[14]
42	C		Kyle Hines	33	CSKA Moscow		2 years	June 2022	Undisclosed	3 June 2020	[15]
0	SG		Kevin Punter	26	Crvena zvezda		1 year	June 2021	Free	18 June 2020	[16]
70	F		Luigi Datome	32	Fenerbahçe		3 years	June 2023	Undisclosed	30 June 2020	[17]
31	SF		Shavon Shields	26	Baskonia		2 years	June 2022	Free	9 July 2020	[18]
2	F/C		Zach LeDay	26	Žalgiris		2 years	June 2022	150.000€	13 July 2020	[19]
81	C		Jakub Wojciechowski[Note IN]	31	Pallacanestro Biella		End of the season	June 2021	Undisclosed	6 February 2021	[20]
40	F/C		Jeremy Evans[Note IN]	33	Khimki		End of the season	June 2021	Free	24 February 2021	[21]

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving to		Type	Transfer fee	Date	Source
22	SF		Drew Crawford	29	Basket Brescia Leonessa		End of EL season	Free	26 May 2020	[22]
00	SG		Amedeo Della Valle	27	Gran Canaria		End of contract	Free	30 May 2020	[23][24]
23	F/C		Christian Burns	34	Basket Brescia Leonessa		End of contract	Free	9 June 2020	[25][26]
16	SG		Nemanja Nedović	28	Panathinaikos		End of contract	Free	9 June 2020	[27][28]
40	PF		Luis Scola	40	Pallacanestro Varese		End of contract	Free	11 June 2020	[29][30]
28	PG		Keifer Sykes	26	Türk Telekom		End of contract	Free	1 July 2020	[31]
7	C		Artūras Gudaitis	27	Zenit Saint Petersburg		Mutual consent	Undisclosed	10 July 2020	[32][33]

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from		Type	Ends	Transfer fee	Date	Source
20	PG		Andrea Cinciarini	34	Reggio Emilia		4 + 3 years	June 2022	Free	9 July 2015	[34]
15	C		Kaleb Tarczewski	27	Oklahoma City Blue		3 + 3 years	June 2023	Free	14 March 2017	[35][36]
5	SF		Vladimir Micov	35	Galatasaray		2 + 2 years	June 2021	Free	10 July 2017	[37]
32	PF		Jeff Brooks	31	Unicaja Málaga		2 + 1 years	June 2021	Free	25 June 2018	[38][39]
9	G/F		Riccardo Moraschini	28	New Basket Brindisi		3 years	June 2022	Free	16 July 2019	[40]
19	C		Paul Biligha	29	Reyer Venezia		3 years	June 2022	Free	22 July 2019	[41]
10	G/F		Michael Roll	32	Maccabi Tel Aviv		1+1 years	June 2021	Free	25 July 2019	[42]
13	PG		Sergio Rodríguez	33	CSKA Moscow		3 years	June 2022	Free	30 July 2019	[43]

Nat.	Name	Age.	Previous team		Type	Ends	Date	Source
	Ettore Messina	60	San Antonio Spurs (assistant)		3+2 years	June 2022 + 2024	11 June 2019	[44]

The following players have been called from the youth team and have made their appearance in the championship.

Youngsters
Players
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age SG 6 Gravaghi, Francesco 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 17 – (2003-02-28)28 February 2003

Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from		Moving to		Date	Contract	Ends
SG		Giordano Bortolani	19	Pallacanestro Biella		Brescia Leonessa[45][46]		1 July 2020	5 years[47]	June 2025

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Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Win %
Supercup	27 August 2020	20 September 2020	Regular season	Winner	8	8	0	0	727	568	+159	100.00
Italian Basketball Cup	11 February 2021	14 February 2021	Quarter finals	Winner	3	3	0	0	263	176	+87	100.00
Serie A	27 September 2020	11 June 2021	Regular season	Runner-up	38	28	0	10	3,182	2,847	+335	073.68
EuroLeague	2 October 2020	30 May 2021	Regular season	3rd	41	25	0	16	3,297	3,159	+138	060.98
Total					90	64	0	26	7,469	6,750	+719	071.11

Table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	AX Armani Exchange Milano	6	6	0	576	433	+143	Advance to Final Four
2	Germani Basket Brescia	6	3	3	499	515	−16
3	Openjobmetis Varese	6	2	4	500	548	−48
4	S.Bernardo Cantù	6	1	5	444	523	−79

Results summary

Overall						Home					Away
Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	W	L	PF	PA	PD	W	L	PF	PA	PD
6	6	0	576	433	+143	3	0	273	215	+58	3	0	303	218	+85

Source: Competitive matches

Results by round

Matches

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 23 Malcolm Delaney 11 2 1 SG 0 Kevin Punter 14 3 2 SF 5 Vladimir Micov 2 2 0 PF 32 Jeff Brooks 0 3 1 C 42 Kyle Hines 9 3 1 Reserves: SG 3 Davide Moretti 0 0 0 SF 9 Riccardo Moraschini 5 2 2 PG 13 Sergio Rodríguez 9 3 4 PF 15 Kaleb Tarczewski 6 4 0 C 19 Paul Biligha 0 0 0 PG 20 Andrea Cinciarini 2 2 0 PF 70 Luigi Datome 17 6 1 Head coach: Ettore Messina

AX Armani Exchange Milano Virtus Segafredo Bologna 0 Milano Statistics Bologna 16/35 (45.7%) 2 point field goals 21/35 (60.0%) 9/25 (36.0%) 3 point field goals 4/24 (16.7%) 16/24 (66.7%) Free throws 14/17 (82.4%) 35 Rebounds 38 12 Assists 20 13 Steals 4 10 Turnovers 16 3 Blocks 1

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 44 Miloš Teodosić 6 1 8 SG 9 Stefan Marković 3 1 4 SF 34 Kyle Weems 5 3 4 PF 11 Giampaolo Ricci 4 1 1 C 45 Julian Gamble 12 8 0 Reserves: C 0 Amedeo Tessitori DNP SF 3 Awudu Abass 12 1 0 PG 6 Alessandro Pajola 2 1 2 PF 7 Amar Alibegović 13 8 0 SG 14 Josh Adams 2 1 1 C 32 Vince Hunter 9 5 0 SF 35 Stefan Nikolić DNP Head coach: Aleksandar Đorđević

2020 Italian Supercup champions
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milano 4th title

The Frecciarossa Final Eight 2021 was the 53rd edition of the Italian Basketball Cup and Milano qualified by ending the first half of the season in the first place of the Italian Championship mid-season and gaining the unofficial title of "Winter Champions".^[6] The Cup was hosted in the Milan court at the Mediolanum Forum in Assago.

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 23 Malcolm Delaney 10 3 2 SG 0 Kevin Punter 13 3 2 SF 31 Shavon Shields 9 4 4 PF 2 Zach LeDay 13 2 0 C 42 Kyle Hines 5 7 1 Reserves: SG 3 Davide Moretti 5 1 0 SF 9 Riccardo Moraschini 7 4 2 PG 13 Sergio Rodríguez 1 1 8 C 19 Paul Biligha 7 1 1 PG 20 Andrea Cinciarini 2 1 0 PF 70 Luigi Datome 15 5 2 C 81 Jakub Wojciechowski 0 0 0 Head coach: Ettore Messina

0 0 Milano Statistics Pesaro 22/38 (57.9%) 2 point field goals 19/38 (50.0%) 10/22 (45.5%) 3 point field goals 5/25 (20.0%) 13/15 (86.7%) Free throws 6/11 (54.5%) 38 Rebounds 34 22 Assists 16 9 Steals 4 12 Turnovers 14 1 Blocks 1

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 12 Justin Robinson 4 2 4 SG 5 Ariel Filloy 5 2 2 SF 3 Henri Drell 12 4 0 PF 25 Márkó Filipovity 12 5 0 C 8 Tyler Cain 15 12 1 Reserves: SG 15 Matteo Tambone 4 1 3 SF 18 Edin Mujakovic DNP SG 22 Gerald Robinson 0 1 3 C 24 Beniamino Basso DNP PF 33 Michele Serpilli 0 0 0 C 41 Simone Zanotti 2 0 0 SF 82 Carlos Delfino 5 2 3 Head coach: Jasmin Repeša

2021 Italian Cup champions
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milano 7th title

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	AX Armani Exchange Milano	28	22	6	2385	2099	+286	Qualification to Playoffs
2	Happy Casa Brindisi	28	20	8	2395	2212	+183
3	Virtus Segafredo Bologna	28	19	9	2397	2168	+229
4	Umana Reyer Venezia	28	19	9	2257	2142	+115
5	Banco di Sardegna Sassari	28	18	10	2527	2437	+90

Overall						Home					Away
Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	W	L	PF	PA	PD	W	L	PF	PA	PD
28	22	6	2385	2099	+286	11	3	1240	1069	+171	11	3	1145	1030	+115

Source: Competitive matches

Notes

1 ^ The match was voided after Virtus Roma withdrawal from the Serie A.^[48]

2 ^ The match against Cremona was postponed because the team was stuck in Madrid, after the Euroleague match against Real, due to bad weather.^[49]

3 ^ The last match was postoponed from May 2 to May 10: Happy Casa Brindisi had a number of players affected by COVID-19 and all the matches were postponed to ensure that all the games were played simultaneously.^[50]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
2	CSKA Moscow	34	24	10	2817	2662	+155	Qualification to playoffs
3	Anadolu Efes	34	22	12	2838	2604	+234
4	A|X Armani Exchange Milan	34	21	13	2720	2599	+121
5	Bayern Munich	34	21	13	2633	2599	+34
6	Real Madrid	34	20	14	2667	2593	+74

Overall						Home					Away
Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	W	L	PF	PA	PD	W	L	PF	PA	PD
34	21	13	2720	2599	+121	11	6	1412	1296	+116	10	7	1308	1303	+5

Source: Competitive matches

Some matches could not be regularly played at the scheduled date due to positivity to SARS-CoV-2 tests from many Euroleague teams. Milano itself was one of the teams where numerous players were affected.^[2]