Euroleague, Dusko Ivanovic explains the cause of Virtus Bologna’s loss to Olympiakos
Euroleague, Dusko Ivanovic explains the cause of Virtus Bologna’s loss to Olympiakos
At the Peace and Friendship Stadium Virtus Bologna è was beaten 87-77 by’Olympiakos Piraeus in the match of the 16th day of the Euroleague and remains in the last place with 3 wins and 13 losses together with’Alba Berlin.
The Black V’s start was disastrous: 25-7 after 6’39” in the first quarter, which ended 29-17 for the hosts. In the second quarter, Dusko Ivanovic’s team made such a great comeback that it even went ahead 46-43 at the long interval.
In the third quarter for’Virtus suffers a 19-4 partial, è under 64-56 with ten minutes to go and this time it fails to close the gap, in fact, sinks to’87-71 before placing a useless 6-0 final with two threes by Marco Belinelli, who closes with 20 points, Virtus’ best scorer. For Olympiakos 27 points and 10 rebounds by Sasha Vezenkov.
“Congratulations to’Olympiacos, they played well. We had problems at the’beginning of the game because they defended strongly right away and we didn’t do as well especially against Vezenkov and in the first five minutes of the third quarter we had big problems taking good shots because of their very good defense. We almost never found good options on offense and looking at the statistics the item rebounds è definitely one of the reasons why we lost”.
