Ettore Messina, white flag in front of Andrea Trinchieri

The words of Ettore Messina

Ettore Messina spoke after the loss to Zalgiris by Andrea Trinchieri: "They deservedly won with a very good second half. Our defense in the second half was not è at the level required to win on such a difficult court as Zalgiris Arena. We had too many underwhelming individual performances. On the contrary, Evans, Lekavicius, Sumner attacked both our guards and our longs on camni, and we were not able to provide help and proper rotation. What’s more; they grabbed twelve offensive rebounds".

"You cannotò win a game “do or die” with the’approach we had in the second half, unfortunately. Sumner? I have many good friends at the Nets, they always spoke very highly of him before he came to Europe. I knew he was capable of doing these things, but we didn’t live up to his physicality. He probably shot a little better from three than he usually does, but that is to his credit".

"Our problems on defense early in the second half were the’start. Two mistakes, three mistakes in a row on offense, and then offensive rebound, offensive rebound and basket. And when we changed on defense we didn’t feel solid, tough, connected. So we started playing fast offensively becauseé we felt that if we didn’t score it would be difficult to stay in the game".