In home Umana Reyer Venezia coach Neven Spahija presented the first match of the LBA quarter-finals: “This week we have worked well to prepare as best as possible for the playoff quarter-finals against Reggio Emilia. We know that it will be a complicated challenge because we are facing the team that placed immediately behind in the championship our. Reggio Emilia is a well-built and competitive team, but together with the boys we studied and tried the right solutions both in attack and defense. The team is complete so we just have to give our best to try to get through the round. I think that in the playoff quarterfinal series we will see completely different games compared to the regular season ones. Every match is a new story and my team just has to think about staying focused and playing the match we have prepared“.
The opponent: Reggio Emilia. “They are a talented team. They recently taught Tariq Black and therefore expanded and completed the roster with 2 players per position. We should be good at responding to their aggression and expressing our basketball. More balanced fourth? I don’t know , but I am sure that it will be a difficult series and that the experience of the players and technical staff will be an important element and that it will be able to make the difference. In basketball, talent is always needed but the head, the focus and experience in playing this type of match is crucial to achieving victory“.
