Olimpia falls in the final, Poeta brings up the referees and explains: "We have structural flaws"
L’Olimpia Milano falls at home 82-86 against Zalgiris Kaunas in the game valid for the 24th day of the Euroleague: the meneghina team after a promising start collapsed in the final against the Lithuanians led by Francisco (25 points) and Lo (17). An excellent Shields, top scorer of the match with 27 points, was not enough for Milan. It’s the third consecutive defeat for Olimpia, 13th in the standings.
After the game coach Peppe Poeta analyzed the performance of his team as follows: “I am sorry and disappointed. As against Red Star we played three very good quarters, then in the last five minutes we were not lucid and precise. I thanked the team for the effort, apologized because a small part of the defeat is mine and being a rookie coach I have to pay the price for not getting enough respect from the referees. Clearly we didn”t lose because of that, but today I was particularly angry”.
Brooks dropped: “After a super month and a half, normal Brooks gets the attention of defenses, but we are good at finding different protagonists. Offense doesn’t worry me, we have to be better defensively. Defense is built as a team and we can improve”.
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The negative ending: “Sometimes we lose the thread. We have structural flaws that I think are obvious to everyone. Sometimes we succeed in compensating for it, sometimes we succeed less. I think that is clear to everybody. But I am happy with the team’s attitude. Lorenzo Brown? Today it was a technical choice, he is struggling”.
