Peppe Poeta after the home loss to Brescia: "I could find a thousand justifications"

“We are in a moment of obvious mental fragility because it is the fourth game that we lose in practically the same way squandering an important lead, also tonight 14 points”. Olimpia Milano coach Peppe Poeta does not hide his bitterness over the home loss to Germani Brescia.

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“We have to react but we have to do it together,” he hopes. “This is the problem: in difficult moments, we respond individually. The message I have to transfer to the team is this: play together and start from the defense. Tonight, too, the approach was very good. We went forward playing as we should, even against Della Valle and Bilan. The choice was not to let them involve the others, to Amedeo take away the assists and the three-point shot. But at the first difficulty like other times we disjointed, stopped defending and did a lot of “hero ball” on offense. The turning point was when, ahead by 14, in control, we took two three-point baskets in transition”.

“Inattentions but then the game changed and precisely we disjointed,” he continued. “It had happened with Varese, it happened tonight. I could find a thousand justifications, injuries, the set-ups changed so many times, the rotation of Italians conditioned by absences, now we hope to recover Diop and Tonut, even Mannion, or I could say that Tonut and Bolmaro are our best defenders and maybe they would have done better against Della Valle. But I don’t want to give alibis to anybody, The truth is that we have to do better and stop constantly rehashing the problems that we have been carrying around since the beginning. That is what we have to give all of ourselves”.

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