Bologna, Nov. 3 –<\/p>\n
After the game against Anadolu Efes, these are the words of coach Banchi<\/strong>: “I am very proud of the way the team responded tonight to a difficult first half, coming back from the locker room with different levels of energy, but with everyone’s contribution we were able to move the game in our direction. There are a lot of numbers that show the kind of consistent game we played tonight in front of one of the best teams in Europe, who badly needed to win tonight. Again, it’s a reason to emphasize the quality of our play, the consistency, how well we took care of offensive possessions and the kind of effort we put in, especially in the second 20 minutes, to limit the opportunities they were good at gaining in the first 20. I really like the way we bounced back after a problematic first half, it’s good because I think we’re building a kind of mentality that will be very valuable during the season.”<\/em><\/p>\n On offensive rebounds<\/strong>: “It has to be part of our system. It comes from the quality of the shots we take, the aggressiveness and the balance with which we attack the iron. It all stems from a good distribution of possession, having lost only 8 balls was decisive and this can support you on nights like these, where we were not as accurate on the shot as on other occasions.”<\/em><\/p>\n On the mentality of the group<\/strong>: “It’s a win in wake with the previous ones, with a good distribution of points and having found in the second twenty minutes different protagonists able to take advantages depending on what the opponents offered us. Their defensive choices gave us advantages that we were precise in exploiting, when the team has this level of concentration and availability it makes my job definitely easier. Tonight it was not complicated to rotate players because there was a level of awareness and lucidity as a high-profile team. We are generating decent quality basketball regardless of who is on the court or on the roster.”<\/em><\/p>\n On the crowd and fans<\/strong>: “If we have to point out one nice thing I would emphasize the crowd frame that was there. Coming here to the first game after a series of contests at the Paladozza on the night in which there is Bologna-Lazio and having this wall of crowd means that we are doing some interesting things together. The guys were really happy to see this following. We hope to make them proud and continue to have them so involved and participating. At a time when we’ve had difficulties, and tonight there were some, this environment helps us and will help us.”<\/em><\/p>\n On Cacok:<\/strong> “I don’t count players’ minutes, we have to collect possessions, in terms of lucidity and concentration. The role is not easy, the task is not at all, I think tonight he had the power to energize the team, which should be a quality for which he was chosen. It’s up to me to put him in a position to do that.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":62332,"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-62348","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\/62348","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=62348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}