Towards the challenge between Brescia basketball And EA7 Emporio Armani Milancoach spoke to the press Alessandro Magro: “We present the penultimate day of the regular season, a certainly particular match, particular for the value and the reputation of the opponent, playing at the Forum, playing against Coach Messina, playing against Olimpia Milano is always something special. It is even more so due to the value that the match can have in itself, we are two days from the end, with three teams with the same points and this match will be important to outline what the playoff grid could be. It’s been a bit of a special week for us, we’re coming off a dull match against Cremona, where we didn’t show the best version of ourselves. We played a tense and careless match, and that’s all we will have to try not to do in Milan“.
The infirmary situation. “It was also a particular week for the management of injuries and flu. Players like Semaj Christon who had physical problems in the last match, or John Petrucelli himself are still recovering and therefore I would like to thank Gianpaolo as always Alberti and the youth sector who give us the opportunity to have players who give us a hand during training and to always have an adequate number to prepare ourselves in the best possible way.”
Olimpia Milan. “Speaking of the opponent, we find a team that is trying to find the best balance, especially after the elimination from the Euroleague, and with the possibility of concentrating only on the championship. They also have injury problems, and are trying to find the better team to try to perform in the championship. Which they are doing in light of the results they have managed to achieve both at home and away in the last few days. Compared to the first leg it is certainly a slightly different match, because they arrived in the first leg really with very reduced ranks and with the tactical obligation to deploy Melli or Voigtmann in the role of small forward and in this match there will be, perhaps one of the best players in the championship, Shavon Shields. One of the best players in Milan together with Napier, and the two of them together are the main creators. There isn’t much to say about a team like Milan, it’s a team that has depth and quality, who has experience but also size and physicality and above all makes defense his trademark. Messina’s team is the most effective team from a defensive point of view, they are good at filling the area and are good at taking away all the immediate advantages that the opponent can have thanks to their very high level of physicality. There’s a chance for us to test ourselves at that higher level of both talent and physicality; therefore, it is important for us to arrive ready and be clear about what we want to try to do in order to try to impose our game even on away games. We will try to share the ball without stopping, run on the counterattack as often as we can and try to test our defensive level against a team that has strong characteristics from both a technical and physical point of view. I believe it is a sold out Forum, so we will be ready to enjoy this show within the show and think that on the penultimate day, the Milan-Brescia match can determine the placement of the playoff grid, is a testament to how good our team has done so far. ”
