Ettore Messina grooms his team after the sweaty

Ettore Messina grooms his men after suffering

At the end of the painful victory against Trento, Ettore Messina didn’t mince words: "As usual è it was difficult after Friday’s game to find the energy to play at our best also on Sunday. In fact, we created problems for ourselves by playing a poor first quarter, both in defense as the 33 points say but also in offense because we were not lucid in making choices and this exposed us to the counterattack of a Trento that played a very good game". 

"In the second half we were definitely better on defense and in the end we won by holding them to 14 points in the final quarter. The comeback I would say è started with Shabazz Napier: before he ran out of gas, he attacked the area repeatedly and led us, then in the final quarter we were good at giving the ball to Mirotic in the low post and lì generated two baskets and an assist. Hines è game was monumental, he scored 12 points, he captured the rebounds, è he was the first one to run on defense to stop their counterattack. There was his mother in the stands: I am glad he played so well in front of her".

"Defense sometimes we take it for granted becauseé we are a team that normally canò defend well. So that it grew in the second half è important, but I think it is more so that after two days we played another balanced game where we balanced shots from outside and from underneath. If we go under in the low post then maybe we pick up fouls, go to the lunette, create open shots and make the opponents tired who have to defend for a long time. If we don’t do that then we are also unbalanced" concluded Coach Messina.