The one that will begin on Thursday 6 June at the Segafredo Arena will be for Kyle Hines the thirteenth consecutive personal final in a national championship between Olympiacos, CSKA Moscow and EA7 Emporio Armani. Sensations, urgency, characteristics of every challenge: these are his considerations in the interview given to Luca Chiabotti in La Repubblica Milan edition on newsstands this morning.
Lowest common denominator. “Every ending is different. In common, they have the same need to obtain the result. We have to take what we’ve done well in the last two seasons and recreate the same atmosphere.”
Pitfalls: This year the series will be shorter, best of five games. “Two fewer games makes the need to have a positive impact on the series more urgent. And we are experts: even in 2022 we won without the advantage of the field. Which counts, and a lot, but the quality of our game and the mentality with which we will face Bologna will count much more.”
After the knockout in Game 1 against Trento, Milan proved to be unbeatable in these Playoffs. “We all had to look at ourselves individually in the mirror, understand that that was not the way we had to play, that the playoffs require superior mentality, play, physicality and that, to complete the season successfully we would have to take a different path. We knew what we did wrong. In the following series of matches, we were more united, we had more time to train, which was unusual for us. We are all aware that ‘the time is now‘”.
