{"id":34681,"date":"2014-09-26T21:32:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.demo.olimpia.iquii.info\/smallball-and-kleiza-olimpia-85-65-in-belgrade\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:17:25","slug":"smallball-and-kleiza-olimpia-85-65-in-belgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/smallball-and-kleiza-olimpia-85-65-in-belgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Smallball&#8221; and Kleiza: Olimpia 85-65 in Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing inside the legendary Pionir, against a legendary and historical team like Partizan, Olimpia closed its preseason on a high note, dominating 85-65. Partizan is not the great powerhouse it used to be but it&#8217;s still a respectable team, well-coached by Dule Vujosevic but after a great first half by Edo Muric, Olimpia raised the defensive intensity, its aggressiveness and was very sharp offensively in spite of being short-handed in the front line. Coming with no Shawn James, Samardo Samuels and even the perimeter player best-equipped to act as a &#8220;big&#8221;, David Moss, Olimpia lost in a matter of minutes Nicol\u00f2 Melli and Angelo Gigli in the third quarter. With Linas Kleiza as the only survived big, acting as a center, Olimpia exploded, opened up the court, used Bruno Cerella as a 4 and destroyed Partizan closing the game with five perimeter players and Gentile disguising himself as a 5. Linas Kleiza showed his offensive weapons, scoring 21 points, Alessandro Gentile had an all-around night adding 6 boards and 6 assists (and 3 steals) to 18 points. Bruno Cerella did a lot of damage scoring 12 points while shooting 5\/6 in 18 minutes. The final score was 85-65. Olimpia closed the first half down by two, then took off.<br \/>\n<strong>THE BOXSCORE &#8211;<\/strong> Partizan Belgrade-EA7 Emporio Armani Milano 65-85. Partizan: Tepic 10, Muric 29, Marinkovic 2, Dallo 6, Gagic 10, Andric, Bezbradica 2, Bogdanovic 4, Salic 2. Olimpia: Gentile 18 (4\/7, 2\/6, 6 ass, 6 reb), Hackett 4 (2\/5, 0\/1, 4 reb, 3 ass), Bartoli (0\/1), Melli 2 (1\/4, 0\/1), Meacham 5 (1\/1, 1\/1), Ragland 9 (1\/1, 2\/3, 4 ass), Brooks 9 (2\/4, 0\/4), Kleiza 21 (2\/5, 5\/7, 6 reb), Gigli 5 (2\/2), Cerella 12 (3\/3, 2\/3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing inside the legendary Pionir, against a legendary and historical team like Partizan,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502],"tags":[],"olimpia_common_tag":[],"class_list":["post-34681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_generali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140223,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681\/revisions\/140223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34681"},{"taxonomy":"olimpia_common_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olimpia.e2net.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/olimpia_common_tag?post=34681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}