The biancoblù coach dedicates the success to his old coach Dado Lombardi “We attack well, it’s true, but now I’m interested in improving in defense”
TRIESTE. The tears for his friend Dado Lombardi, who passed away in recent days, the smile for a group that follows him and that is traveling at full throttle on the field. Mixed feelings at the end of the match for Gianmarco Pozzecco, who recalled the coach who took him from Serie B to Serie A and with whom he then shared a complicated year in Varese. “The first thing I have to say is that the guys I have are extraordinary – says the coach -, I feel a lucky man for what we have been lucky enough to find in these three years in Sassari, certainly thanks to the wisdom of our general manager. and all my staff. Society itself is made up of great people; before the game I gave a speech in which I remembered how important and beautiful it was for me to play for Dado Lombardi and how beautiful it was for me to play with confidence. I simply asked them to honor the name of a great coach and a great player who has given me great joy of playing basketball and great confidence. I thank my players who, on such a complicated day for me, gave me this joy to be able to dedicate to someone who is no longer there ».
Then a mention of the problems of the defense, perhaps the only nit for the Sassari. «I stopped talking about how good we are in attack and told them how good we could become in defense. In particular, there is a player who has given us great aggression in the last period, which is Stefano Gentile: once again he started in defense in a crazy way and increased the aggressiveness of all the others. This is a team where the boys copy themselves, they look at each other. There is a great spirit of emulation, in a basketball team it is an extremely important virtue ».
