Menetti: “We are sorry to lose in this way, in Bologna we will have to be humble”

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Rather sad atmosphere in the post match of Palaverde. The heavy scoppola remedied by Nutribullet cannot leave room for anything other than an analysis with head down and with contingent words. Like those of Captain Matteo Imbrò which briefly describes the reasons for a real debacle: «We entered the field softly, without the necessary energy», admits the empedoclina guard, «we allowed Brescia to play his basketball, letting us get our hands on him. In the interval we looked at each other, it wasn’t us; we tried to recover the game by raising the level of physicality and defensive intensity and playing in a simple way in attack. But it wasn’t enough ».

“Brescia dominated”, says coach Lost, «There is a lot of Germani’s rhythm and intensity in the advantage of the first half, a huge amount. We lost confidence, we were waiting for nothing but the interval to rearrange our ideas. We are sorry to lose like this, we have to work hard starting from the next match which will be difficult but which requires humility, beyond the ups and downs of a season. I have seen millions of matches like this, it is useless to dwell on the reaction of the second half. We have the big problem of controlling our frustration, perhaps we wanted to regain confidence with the game but we were struck by our demerits and by Brescia’s skill. We started from defense but it is clear that we have to find ourselves: we need to work a lot, especially looking for what is simple. And focusing on bounces and stray balls. The use of Casarin? It didn’t seem appropriate to try it on -20, we shortened the rotations and I wanted to continue like this. Della Valle’s record? I left him as the second best scorer of Eurocup: I am not surprised by his attacking quality ». “Little to say, we spent all 40 minutes chasing”, the ex, Giordano laconically closes Bortolani, «For the Italian Cup we will try to win the next two matches, in Bologna against Virtus and at home with Trieste. Of course if we play like this there isn’t much to be optimistic ». –

Federico Bettuzzi