Virtus Bologna knockout, Luca Banchi blunt: “Euroleague level very high”

The post-game judgment è forthright.

Virtus Bologna debuts in the Euroleague with a loss against Efes Istanbul, able to prevail with a score of 67-76. A knockout that Luca Banchi tried to explain after the game, identifying the aspects on which the Turks were superior and those on which his team canò work in view of the upcoming appointments in Europe and beyond.

"I congratulate Efes, a very strong team that has a very deep roster,” Banchi said in the press conference. “The game è was very intense, and in the second half we suffered a lot especially in the rebounding phase. Then we also lost too many balls, and è one of the reasons we lost".

"Clearly, athletic conditions change from person to person, but I tried to put the best team possible on the court,” Banchi continued.

They però were ahead in many roles both in centimeters and pounds. I tried to lengthen the rotations to distribute energy, but some were asking me to change now exhausted".

"This Euroleague perhaps presents the highest level ever. That is why we have to improve if we want to compete against the opponents we will find on our path from here on out. Just look at Larkin, who in the last quarter did something simply amazing", Banchi concluded.