Reggio Emilia, Dimitris Priftis explains how to limit Manresa

The words of Dimitris Priftis

BCL nights are back at PalaBigi: Pallacanestro Reggiana, in the third day of the Round of 16 of the continental event, will receiveà the Spaniards of Manresa.

The situation, after two games of this second phase, è the following: Tenerife with full points with two wins out of two, Manresa and UNAHOTELS paired with one success each and Petkim at the tail end still at zero. The formula calls for the top two finishers in this grouping to advance to the Playoffs. 

Coach Dimitris Priftis presented the challenge against the Iberian team in a press conference: "Manresa will want to play a high tempo game, they are a team that when it can; runs, takes a lot of shots in the first seconds of the action and has some very good players to split defenses in two. This will lead us to have to do a lot of individual work on defense on one-on-ones and try to control their dangerous transition in every way.

Obviously the energy with which we will take the court will be one of the keys, having on the other side a very physical team, which presses full-court, attacks and goes very strong on offensive rebounding. It will be a very difficult game against a roster that is also doing very well in its league, always driving great competitiveness and agonism" concluded Dimitris Priftis.