Coach’s comment Ettore Messina after his defeat Olimpia Milan at the Segafredo Arena in Game 2 against Virtus Bologna. “Congratulations to Virtus, who started badly but managed to turn the game around at a time when we were controlling it quite well. Increasing the defensive intensity, stealing balls, making it difficult for us to move the ball in attack. As for us, I think that we played a game not as we wanted, despite everything we were more or less equal towards the end of the third quarter. Some of our players seemed a little tired early on, we probably paid a little for the overtime in Game 1. Anyway, let’s get back to it. Milan with a very important victory, we have two days left and we are preparing for Game 3.”
“Regrets about the many turnovers? When you lose there are always regrets, let’s take home what this week gave us and think about the next one. Still few assists? Popovich would reply “I’ll tell him to make more assists” and make a joke out of it. But we have to move the ball faster, we have to do things better. In Game 1 we did it, we shot free throws often. They make a lot of changes, historically when you find a team that changes a lot there are a lot of isolations. The issue of ball circulation is certainly fundamental. Is Mirotic struggling in attack? I agree, it’s always the same thread. If we keep the ball still it’s difficult to involve anyone.”
