{"id":72762,"date":"2025-06-19T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/news\/lba-unipol-24-25-final-playoffs-ivanovic-thanks-to-my-players-for-letting-me-win-another-trophy\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T08:54:01","slug":"lba-unipol-24-25-final-playoffs-ivanovic-thanks-to-my-players-for-letting-me-win-another-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/news\/lba-unipol-24-25-final-playoffs-ivanovic-thanks-to-my-players-for-letting-me-win-another-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"LBA Unipol 24\/25, Final Playoffs | Ivanovic: \u201cThanks to my players for letting me win another trophy.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bologna &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you to my players for letting me win another trophy and congratulations to Brescia for the final they played despite the difficulties they had.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have I won in six different countries?<\/strong> <em>I don&#8217;t remember, you are telling me, but winning in Italy has always been a dream of mine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Has a cycle ended with these players?<\/strong> <em>It was a team victory, we made adjustments and everyone in the end made a contribution. For example, Polonara in game 2 against Venice was crucial, without him we probably would have lost that game and I don&#8217;t know if there would have been subsequent games. After the game we lost to Red Star very badly I saw the players very sad, I didn&#8217;t sleep at night, but from the next day I saw the right determination to win the championship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A thing about Polonara?<\/strong> <em>I know him from the Baskonia days, I won with him in Spain and I won with him today in Italy. He is a born fighter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":72757,"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-72762","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\/72762","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=72762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}