Coach Trinchieri in the press room before Zalgiris Kaunas’s trip to Belgrade to face Maccabi Tel Aviv.
“I hate to be boring, but this time I will be. At this point of the season, visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv, even if in Belgrade, is extremely complicated. It’s not the best moment for us, we played a below-average match, I would even say a bad match, for many reasons. However, what I always tell my players is that there are no excuses. Olympiacos killed us….
We didn’t play at the weekend, when the calendar came out I thought: “It’s not bad, we’ll have time to work.” But now things have changed, we need games to find our rhythm. Maccabi Tel Aviv is coming off a fantastic match in Berlin, where they won by almost 40 points, and another good match in Eilat. We will have to raise our level on both sides of the court, be more focused and pay attention to details.
However, this match should help us forget the one against Olympiacos. I would say that the word ‘forget’ is not appropriate, we just need to go back to being ourselves. It happens that you fall, but then you have to get up again. I’ve always told myself that life is about moving from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm. Defeats are part of our life, not losing faith and enthusiasm is the final goal.”