Berlin –<\/p>\n
Coach Banchi’s words in the Berlin postgame<\/strong>: “Very important and impressive win for the way our team faced the opponent, we gathered a very good lead during the first 20 minutes. After halftime we expected Alba to respond, to react and we were not as aggressive as in the first half and that cost energy. But we controlled well, both before the end of the third and the whole fourth period their will to retaliate. And we closed this first of two consecutive double weeks with two important wins. And now we move on to the next competition. It was really comforting how, in spite of the energy expended physically, technically and nervously in the match against Bayern a few hours away, we came here, to play with that authority that gave our opponents no room, it was definitely convincing. Unfortunately, the halftime cost us something in terms of aggressiveness, our opponents found a series of baskets, as had also happened in Bologna in the first game, when Alba had had the most important gap and in the second half they came back, thanks to these ballistic qualities that everyone recognizes.If in the first twenty minutes we did not give them any space at all, we were on all the passing lines and showed great concreteness, not as much happened at that juncture, however, I would say that overall we were able to manage our emotions, control the game, slowly found the cue and confidence to put a safety gap between us and Alba, return home with a victory against a team that however, in spite of its record of three wins at home, against high-profile opponents such as Milan, Barcelona Zalgiris, gives additional value and depth to our performance.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":64205,"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-64208","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\/64208","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=64208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}