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At the end of the semifinal win over Milano, Coach Banchi spoke this way in the press conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n “Solid game, serious. The teams are not yet ready, the national teams have just arrived, few trainings, I have just arrived, and on the court all these things were seen, in the continuity, in the production of a basketball of the caliber of two Euroleague teams. The level of physicality, however, was high, from the very first possessions it showed, we were competitive and that was the thing I was most concerned about, and then I hope with time to be able to have an adequate quality of play, but we start from this base. Milan is an opponent that, in addition to giving you objective problems from the point of view of the talent of the players, has a game structure that is now broken in, a coach who has been able to create a system in which Mirotic now becomes a booster; they have often played with three longs, doing it with a player like Mirotic becomes really difficult, when then Shields expresses himself at the levels he is producing in Milan in these years, honestly it is difficult to play, I have to applaud the team, which always found the resources have when lacking lucidity, to stay attached. We had a good attitude, I complained a little bit at halftime about all those lost balls, we tried to find open shooters, struggle to rebound on second opportunities, we were limited to three turnovers and from there our game took another direction. I take home only the team’s willingness to apply the game plan, which was to respond to the many versions of Milan, which there could have been, starting with an unpredictable department of foreign players, their face can also change depending on the foreigners they decide to deploy. Strong-willed attitude, combative, good continuity, some decline related to the moment of the season, we are in preseason and no team encountered so far can approach the level and intensity of play of the Milan seen tonight. Now we will see if we can recover energy in such a short time. It is never convenient at such an early stage of preparation to approximate efforts at this level. We will have to be very careful. Tortona and Brescia-which I haven’t seen so far apart from the game against Milan in Tortona-I’m told are already expressing high-level basketball.<\/em> …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60877,"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":[307,268,256,248],"tags":[308,269,265],"class_list":["post-60885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague-en","category-primo-piano-en","category-a-league","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\/60885","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=60885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSmith? It was a good baptism, with a few lurching moments, but he was important in certain moments of the game when it was important to distribute responsibility and find players who could create advantage for themselves. He brings addition of creativity, my job is to evolve his game.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"