Milan –<\/p>\n
These are the post-game words of coach Sergio Scariolo:<\/strong> “Congratulations to Olimpia, they deserved to win, playing with more energy and lucidity than us: the game was very balanced, all the quarters were with a difference, when there was one, of only one basket. I would say, however, I want to clap my hands at the pride of our team and our players, because even on a night where we had more than one important player not in the mood, they never gave up, they came back a couple of times in contact, they showed great competitive pride a great desire to stay glued to the game and try to win it until the end, so I have to congratulate them. It’s one more game, obviously every win in a final is important, now we will see in Bologna and try to win the sixth.<\/em> …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57449,"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":[308,269,265],"class_list":["post-57456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-primo-piano-en","category-news","tag-euroleague-en","tag-app-en","tag-evidence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57456","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=57456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI think we have to ask ourselves how we did, in this edition of ours, to still get in the game in the last 3-4 minutes rather than thinking about what we missed at the end. The referees? It has been about 90 games in these two years in the league: I have never spoken about the referees except in the postgame that caused us to lose first place in the regular season this year and that was the only time, premising that I still had high regard for the referee who made the mistake. I have nothing more to say honestly: let’s move on and think about the next one.<\/em>
\nOf course, it is always difficult to determine where the merits and demerits of one team and the other come in. I have to congratulate Milan’s defense, but I have to say that over the years I have seen many, but many times, great defenses on Shengelia and Teodosic and not with a similar result. They too are human, made of flesh and blood, so they can run into a bad day. We from the beginning are adjusting, we are making adjustments in the quintets, in offense, in defense, in the games to be played, every game and we will have to do that, as a matter of course, in the sixth game as well as they did. We have to understand what is possible to correct in one day and then do it the day after tomorrow.<\/em>
\nTeodosic? I simply did not see him on his day and, for a 36-year-old player, I did not think it was right to squeeze the orange on a night when he was not giving you juice. Clearly we expect that with a day of rest and quiet he can give us his contribution the day after tomorrow.<\/em>
\nFree throws? 76% is not a bad percentage, then everyone is better in one part of the game: for us it is not a bad percentage. Clearly some teams when they shoot with this percentage think they shot worse than their chances. We are there, I think the free throws have their importance: in Game 2 they had their importance, today maybe a little less.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"