Olimpia Milano: Ettore Messina takes stock of the physical condition of the new ones

In the first media day of the season, Ettore Messina addressed several issues. In addition to confirming how Peppe Poeta, this year his deputy, is destined to take his place at the helm of the club, he also spoke about the physical condition of several new faces on the roster.

On Marko Guduric, named to take Nikola Mirotic’s place as the team’s leader, he explained: “He’s back with pretty major tendinitis. and now we’ll see, a little bit, we have to take it slow.”

Clear words also about Vlatko Cancar, another new addition: “This guy has huge possibilities, he showed them before. We feel he is recovering well from the very serious injury he had and we think he can return to being the player he showed before. He is still a young player. If he can do that and we can help him, we got a really interesting player. We will see as we go along”.

In the meantime, the team disputed won the’friendly played in the Bottacin Tournament against Bertram Tortona: 81-70 the final for the red-and-whites. Excellent performances by Shields (15 points), Nebo (11 points) and new acquisition Brown (13 points), certainly the best on the court among the ranks of the new Olimpia Milano, which, on September 27-28, will play the Italian Supercup, the first real appointment of the season.