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These are the words of coach Sergio Scariolo in the postgam<\/strong>e: “We are happy for this great victory, for winning two games in a row and for tying the series. I think we played 33- 34 minutes at a very high level, even more than I expected, as we have to recognize that we made a number of quite childish mistakes, in the middle part. As soon as we took the maximum lead I saw a few too many celebrations: it’s many years that I’ve been in this business and I know that when you overdo the celebrations you are losing concentration. We lost some trivial balls, accelerated some trivial actions and lost that bit of focus on defense that allowed a great team like Milan to come back. We managed to create a margin of safety that we lost again two or three times, but it is admirable how the team that had lost the inertia on the winning path managed to find it again with great effort and lucidity found then in overtime. Great win against a great team, more experienced than us: surely they have this ability not to demoralize and not to lose concentration even when down by 18. They showed once again why they are ahead of everyone. We are happy with the way we are playing and we will restart from the positive things we did for a lot of minutes, it would be nice to do that in the next game, so that we can reintroduce ourselves to the question of concentration to maintain when you are ahead by so much. I think the next game will be completely different, so the issues will be completely different-every game is its own story. I think we stuck to the game tooth and nail, not letting them go more than 2 ahead: if at that moment the gap had opened up by 4-6 points, even mentally, it would have been a very, very steep mountain to climb. Thanks to defense we stayed there. We stopped putting our heads down, playing anxiously and hurriedly on offense, which had caused us to lose what we had built up in so many minutes of good basketball, recovering lucidity and control, changing the quintet trying to see who seemed to be more calm at that moment, which is very important. Those who played in overtime made very good contributions. We are competing, I repeat what I have been saying from the beginning: we are the challengers looking up and have all the onus to have to close the gap that exists , we are seriously committed to the mission. I think in these four games we have played showing that we have many minutes of good basketball on both baskets, we have shown that we have a defense that is up to the task, then obviously against a great team like Milan we know that there are obvious possibilities of making mistakes and being forced to make them. The two teams arrive in similar positions, we come in with 2 wins each and enter a 3-game mini-series: usually it is said that the longer the series, the stronger team is favored. Now the series is shorter and I would say we have earned the right to play another home game. The focus has to be put on the next one and we have to look further: they are very strong with a lot of great players who come in the fourth quarter and are capable of these very individual, classy and effective plays. It will probably be more games of great balance.<\/em> …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,248],"tags":[269,265],"class_list":["post-57422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-primo-piano-en","category-news","tag-app-en","tag-evidence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOvertime? They are an added load that’s there, then I think the two days of recovery can help the physical and mental recovery. The two teams I think will go into the next game without a big overload although clearly the many minutes that so many players have in their heads and legs can take their toll. As always I think it’s an individual issue rather than a team issue because some players could probably be affected more.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"