Virtus Bologna falls to Asvel, Ivanovic identifies two problems

An ugly defeat for Virtus Bologna that falls at home to Asvel Villeurbanne’Asvel Villeurbanne in the 26th day of the Euroleague. At Virtus Segafredo Arena it ends 70-80 with the French almost always in control of the game. For the Bianconeri, deprived of Alessandro Pajola, Matt Morgan and Mouhamet Diouf, the 20 points of Carsen Edwards, the best scorer of the game, were not enough.

“Before the game we knew how much this challenge represented a difficult match for us both because of our current situation with the infirmary and also and because they are among the most physical teams in the Euroleague – stressed coach Dusko Ivanovic in the press conference after the defeat -. The whole game we had big problems with offensive rebounds – I think we conceded 17 – and with lost balls. Those for me were the two big problems tonight”.

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“Also on offense we conducted the ball too slowly added the coach of the Black Vu’s who will be back on the court on Friday, Feb. 6 at 8:45 p.m. at Peace and Friendship Stadium against Olympiacos -. In the second 20 minutes we tried to salvage the game, putting in a lot of effort to try to get back into the challenge, but the end result is that we lost”.

“Problems on defense between quarters? The last quarter we suffered a lot from 1vs1 defense. The truth is that defense and offense go together: if we attack well we also defend well and vice versa. Defense and offense are connected. The moment we suffered that small disadvantage we lost ourselves. This is normal, we never gave up but sometimes these things happen” concluded Ivanovic.