Bologna –<\/p>\n
Coach Luca Banchi<\/strong><\/b> spoke in press conference after the win over Sassari : \u201cA victory that was the result of a newfound energy in the second half, with the predictable difficulties in the approach.<\/i> We tried to rest some elements, but then some players decided to honor this jersey, this club and this coat of arms.<\/i> In the second half we turned the game around through a tough quintet that featured Alessandro Pajola as a leader, both emotionally and technically.<\/i> Already from last year he was evolving, he gave me that impression.<\/i> Every single day he puts effort and dedication: I’d like him to be a bit of an example for everybody, he’s been playing on this team for 10 years, it’s not common in this era, he’s an asset, hold on to him.<\/i> I made a clumsy attempt to protect him in the first half, because his physical condition is not ideal and even with the national team, in agreement, I don’t think he will participate in the second match given the difficulties Pajo is living with.<\/i> Let’s hold out on Wednesday and then we’ll have even 8 days, it doesn’t mean we won’t work but we could do it by modulating team and individual loads. <\/i>Today there was a desire to look for energy elsewhere, he was aware of that but at halftime Alessandro was quivering and made it clear that he wanted to get on the field to win.<\/i> It is not for everyone to wear this jersey: every day I feel a duty to be worthy of such a club and I work with all my commitment and dedication.<\/i> I want to see hungry people on the field, it’s not easy to wear the weight of this jersey, it has to be understood, and some people still don’t understand that.<\/i> Those who really have leadership qualities show it, little talk, that’s what we need.<\/i> We have no big names that other Euroleague teams can boast, we need to oppose team play.<\/i> It’s already been two months now, those who haven’t figured it out yet need to wake up.<\/i> Until the last moment I will keep pushing, even today Grazulis’ minutes become precious, like Akele’s, because we have to try to tune the game of some people, we can’t always ask the same ones.<\/i> The initial idea was to take people who are hungry to play their chances, that’s what I want to see: mistakes are tolerated when they are coupled with team spirit, no one claims to be already performing, but there are things in emotional terms that go beyond talent.<\/i> In terms of spirit and dedication, I don’t compromise.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":69463,"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":[268,256,248],"tags":[308,269,265],"class_list":["post-69469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/69469","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=69469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}