Olimpia Milano, Ettore Messina admits, “We are embarrassed.”

Olimpia Milano is coming off nine consecutive losses in the Euroleague

Against Maccabi Tel Aviv came the ninth consecutive Euroleague loss for Olimpia Milano. However, Ettore Messina’s men are already with their heads to the match, valid for the 14th day of the top continental competition, against Red Star.

“Our goal is to play the best possible game, after a negative series that embarrasses us even if there are a thousand reasons to explain it,” admitted the coach of the Milanese team during the press conference on the eve of the game.

“We always manage to build good advantages, but we are then unable to sustain them in the last quarter. In Belgrade the goal is to improve precisely in the management of the last quarter, knowing that it will not be easy against a team in great shape, well organized by Coach Ivanovic and in an environment that as usual will be very hot,” Messina continued.

Last season, Ettore Messina’s team returned to win the Scudetto, snatching it from the jerseys of Virtus Segafredo Bologna. The red-and-whites, who had finished in second place right behind Sergio Scariolo’s team in the regular season, immediately brought the court factor to their side in the final series and never let the Felsinians catch them again. In the Euroleague, Sergio Rodriguez (who said goodbye to the Red Shoes in the summer to return to Spain) and his teammates were eliminated by Ergin Ataman’s Anadolu Efes, who would win the tournament for the second year in a row.