The coach points the finger at the attitude of his “The covid is not an excuse, I’m really very angry”
CREMONA. “I’m very pissed off. I hope my players are the same, because today we weren’t a team on the pitch ».
Coach Piero Bucchi enters the PalaRadi press room very dark in the face, he does not even look at the statistics, much less comment on them. The disaster made by his team, especially in the second half, was seen with the naked eye.
“For our part it was an absolutely insufficient match – says the coach of Banco di Sardegna -, I don’t give a damn about Covid, we have to reset immediately and start again, because this attitude is really not good”.
The approach to the game of the blues and whites had been more than good and after a quarter and a half it seemed that Logan and his teammates were able to run away, or in any case to control the game. «The basketball games last 40 minutes, the only truth is this – replies the Bolognese coach -. In terms of consistency, we were completely different from the last games played before the stop, that is the one in Venice and the one at home against Varese. We must necessarily be stronger than the covid, we cannot afford for any reason to have this type of decline. Covid and infections affect everyone, cyclically, so this cannot be an excuse. We have to be tougher. I’m pissed off – Bucchi reiterates – and I really hope that after a performance like this the players are as angry as I am ».
During the match Bucchi turned to the bench on several occasions, asking to cheer on the players on the pitch. And from the bench he drew heavily to try to straighten things out.
The coach’s response is cryptic. “I looked for resources, to try to find that rhythm, which some could not find.”
Yesterday’s game represented an important opportunity to leave the relegation zone behind for good and to take a step forward with a view to Final Eight. With two games to catch up, are there still chances of getting the ticket to Pesaro?
“Right now I want to recover my mentality – replies the Banco coach -, this is absolutely the priority, because we were not a team on the pitch”.
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