Gianmarco Pozzecco still hasn’t digested the loss to France

Italbasket coach still hasn’t digested the loss to France

Italian national basketball team coach Gianmarco Pozzecco spoke to Sky on the sidelines of his speech at the Festival dello Sport in Trento, returning to the Eurobasket quarterfinal lost to France.

“In basketball usually those who deserve win, in that game without disrespecting the French we deserved to go ahead. But emotions are important to experience, beyond results,” stressed the former assistant to Ettore Messina at Olimpia Milano.

The Italbasket coach then closed with a quote from Marcelo Bielsa: “El Loco said that you have to evaluate what you can achieve also by another criterion and that is whether you deserved it. Detaching yourself from the mere result. In soccer there is a team that attacks 90 minutes and another that scores one goal by luck: the evaluation is not these were better because they won. A bit like us with France.”