Bologna –<\/p>\n
Coach Banchi spoke in a press conference after the win over Olympiakos<\/strong>: “Great win, a special effort against one of the best teams in Euroleague. They put on defense and physicality from the start. We responded late, but we responded. In the second half we fought, we came back and in the final we found the solutions to win. I congratulate the team, they are very serious people, who in a difficult moment found the resources to turn the game around and find another prestigious victory.”<\/em><\/p>\n What changed in the second half?<\/strong> “They are a very experienced team, and they had had time to prepare, the All Star Game had been played in Greece.They came in fiercely focused.We struggled to find space, but we didn’t give up, and at halftime we found the energy to play the game, with no regrets.What I would have regretted would have been losing without playing.These are special nights, you can’t show yourself lost. In the second half we saw the identity of a team that wants to compete, beyond the physical and scoring gap. Our offense slowly crumbled their strength, in the first half we had shot 20% from two and shot only 3 free throws. In the second half we played on tracks more congenial to us, then having this frame helps. And we know that it takes very little to get the environment involved. I had positive feelings from the beginning of the third quarter, in the first half I was sorry to see surrender.”<\/em><\/p>\n On Dobric’s performance<\/strong>: “He has qualities that give consistency to our rotation. We expect a lot from him, and I hope this performance will serve as an incentive for him to find confidence and continuity.”<\/em><\/p>\n In the second half less problems in the area, what happened?<\/strong>:Luck… There are no particular keys.Theirs is a great team, which is still inside a process of completion, but it remains one of the most serious candidates for the title.But we have the identity to keep digging in, even in such a difficult match and against such a strong opponent.We responded with our weapons, mutual support, defense and discipline.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":63843,"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-63849","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\/63849","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=63849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}