Olimpia catastrophe in Istanbul, Ettore Messina: “Depressed team.”

Olympia catastrophe in Istanbul, Ettore Messina: "Depressed team"

An’EA7 Emporio Armani Milano in emergency suffers a terrible rout against the’Anadolu Efes coached since two weeks by’former Virtus Bologna Luca Banchi in Istanbul, at the Basketball Development Center, in the twenty-third Euroleague game: 110-66 the score against a team that was coming from five consecutive defeats and that è still behind the Italian champions in the standings.

Given the final score, there’è s no need to make even a quick chronicle of this game, let’s just mention the scores at the end of the first three quarters, 24-9, 56-31, 87-48, with the Turks reaching the maximum of +46 right in the final, 110-64. There were as many as seven in double figures among the hosts, 18 points for Rodrugue Beaubois, for Milan 13 for Armony Brooks.

These are the words of Olimpia coach Ettore Messina: "We are a team that does not have so much luck this year. We are a very depressed team that has seen so many injuries and now è flat, and think the season is over. My job è to make it clear that there is no wizard who can fix absences, we have to do it ourselves. If you quit, because youè are sad and depressed, you donè t help yourself and you donè t help: è a human reaction. We have to make men recover their confidence, who in spite of everything have done very good things so far."