Demis Cavina: “The first championship is always tough” Aza Petrovic: “That 10-0 break changed the game”
SASSARI. “It is a heartfelt victory, achieved despite some really embarrassing mistakes.” For Demis Cavina that’s okay, even if in the next video meeting there will be more than one situation to review.
«The first league matches are never superfine basketball games – says the biancoblù coach -. On the other hand, it is wonderful how we won, making even serious mistakes, but overturning with that break from -7, playing together and defending together. I hope in a while to be able to talk more about basketball, but at the moment we are not close to our standard, to do that we have to be complete and all have the same level of intensity. Pesaro played with the right face, they jumped into rebounds, but the primary objective in this match was to break the ice ».
«As always I will not talk about absences – he added -, but I have to thank the medical staff who put Burnell back on the field, recovering from gastroenteritis: JB did not have the usual energy and it has been seen, but it was fundamental. I am happy with his spirit, and I had no doubts about this ».
On the latest Pesaro attack, he chose to put Devecchi in defense on Sanford. «I train a very long team of players with great quality and who all give us something. I see 12 players and it is very easy for me to draw. Treier also did very well, everyone knows they need to feel ready ».
The guest coach Aza Petrovic, brother of the legendary Drazen, is disappointed but calm. «To win in such a difficult field you have to play an almost perfect match, you have to stay focused every minute. We checked the score for more than 30 minutes, but when we had more confidence we took a 10-0 break. It was 2 and a half minutes in which we missed an easy basket and lost two balls that we couldn’t afford. Without that blackout, perhaps the game would have gone differently, I congratulate my boys, little by little we will sort out all our problems ». (a.si.)