Zalgiris beats Olimpia Milano, Ettore Messina identifies key to knockout.

Hector Messina identifies the key to defeat

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Euroleague Thursday brought as a dowry the seventh defeat, in eleven games, of Olimpia Milano, which in front of the Forum audience lost 70-83 to Zalgiris Kaunas, a team that until the opening two-ball had record equal to that of the meneghini.

Ettore Messina, on club channels, tried to pinpoint the key to the knockout: "Defensively – he said -we suffered their inside game when they attacked us especially against the longs and defensively we failed to stem their aggressiveness, we didn’t move the ball enough and we didn’t create advantages against their physicalityà".

"We had few assists, confirming this,” he added. “We were coming from three very good games then in the second half of the game with Pistoia we ruined everything. Now we went in the same direction. We started out fearful and when you are fearful to win you have to defend like crazy. But we made mistakes even defensive unacceptable and about which we will have to talk".

"Right now, there is no alternative to work and improve. The quintet with Mirotic and Voigtmann together è it is true that tonight he struggled, but precisely because of that Johannes played 19 minutes, not a'enormità, and instead we also used Hines and Melli together precisely to give more backbone to the defense. We even succeeded in some moments. But when we won that è it was always the quintet that gave us more, even good starts" concluded Messina.