Ettore Messina looks beyond second place

The words of Ettore Messina

Ettore Messina spoke after the success over Brescia that è earned second place in the standings. "It’ was a very important win, we will have to beat Cremona in its home, where it will want to finish well its excellent season, to make sure we have the advantage of the court factor in the first two rounds of the playoffs. Brescia è a team with physicalityà and size that in defense tries to close the’area and force many shots from outside".

"We in the first quarter shot very well, in the second quarter we settled a little too much for shooting from three, but in the second half we were good at rebalancing the game, there were some close baskets, by Hall, by Melli, Shields attacked the area a lot more. In the end, the percentages say we attacked well, even with Hall on reduced minutes and without Mirotic, who we count on getting back already next Sunday. The ’offense è was more fluid in the second half because é when you attack more; entirely then you also create better shots from outside. Then the defense in the second half è rose in tone”.

Chapter WIllie Caruso as a quintet: "Not è a gift, his minutes are deserved for how he is training and how he had played last Sunday against Scafati. Today the level was higher against Miro Bilan and he struggled more, but he è a smart guy and I think he will be able to treasure this game in which he had some difficulties, for example problems with fouls".

Comment on opponents: "Everyone è free to make their own choices. We had some difficulties today when we settled and when we lost seconds to understand if they were defending man or zone instead of playing. In the second half we used some movement regardless of their defense and we did better. But we scored 83 points shot 65 percent from two, 42 percent from three so I would say what we had to do we did”.