Olimpia Milano gets off to a good start, but Ettore Messina berates defense

The words of Ettore Messina after the victory over Nutribullet Treviso

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Olimpia Milano started the new Serie A basketball championship on the right foot, overcoming Nutribullet Treviso with a score of 86-80. 

Ettore Messina commented soì the victory over the team from Treviso in the press conference: "A complicated game with a very soft entry, slowly we have regained energy with all our important players. I am happy becauseè there are positive things, example we increased the number of assists".

"Shields had an impactful game, Mirotic struggled but in the last quarter he did the things we needed to win and also Pangos overcame some initial shyness,” he added. Also happy with Tonut’s concrete game. Nikola was certainly very tense for the’debut and struggled, he però finished well as a great champion".

The coach of the meneghini did not è like forò the defensive phase: "Definitely we need to improve in defense, there’è commitment but not the automatisms that are needed, we still lack the necessary communication. They played a very crisp competition".