Virtus Bologna remounted and beaten by'Hapoel Tel Aviv, Dusko Ivanovic merciless

Virtus Bologna squandered a +14 lead it had toward the end of the second quarter (42-28) and was beaten at home by top-ranked Hapoel Tel Aviv 79-74 in the game of the 15th day of Euroleague.

For the Black Vs 21 points from Matthew Morgan, on the other side there were 22 points from Elijah Bryan and 21 points plus 10 rebounds from Dan Oturu. Dusko Ivanovic’s words at the end of the match let all his bitterness shine through.

“We played against a strong team with many experienced players. But my feeling is that we gave a gift under Christmas to Hapoel’Hapoel, is my impression after this match. So many lost balls, 12, in the second half, that is too many. We were not smart to spend fouls and manage the game better”.

“No matter who is in front of us. We cannot be happy when we lose a game. Before every game, we believe we can beat everyone and we fight for it. And in these three to four minutes, we lost this thought in our head.”

“What we can do this season, I don’t know. We will fight every game, we have shown that we can play well, but also that we have a lot of things we can do better. It depends on us, whether we will be focused and fight until the end to do the best we can”.

“If I knew what could happen in the game, it would be easy. I think we played well defensively one on one, but in the important moment we did badly. And most importantly, we did not commit fouls when we could make them in one-on-one situations.