Coach Walter De Raffaele at a press conference, after the home victory in the Italian Super Cup match, against Reggio Emilia basketball.
“We are happy to have taken this step of having qualified. I think we have to congratulate Reggio Emilia. For our part, I think we played good basketball for thirty minutes, especially with a lot of intensity, a lot of attention. Then we liked each other too much. , we liked too much reflected in the beauty of the game, going to do things that do not belong to us, I think losing the ban on the skein beyond the merits. said you players is an important bell because as I said to my players, I believe that this team must have the same mental attitude throughout the game, winning with humility, because in this championship everyone wins and loses with everyone, especially at Now that the championship and the season have just begun it is important to realize this because the fourth quarter was not a good fourth quarter, beyond à of the ability to resume the game more with individual initiatives than with team play which instead had been of the highest level for 30 minutes. So I repeat we are happy for this qualification, we will go on Saturday to play against Pesaro which up to now has had another type of pre-season and therefore we must immediately treasure this alarm bell because then it can become a big bell and maybe it takes us to earth. . “
Are you satisfied with the new ones? You can take stock. Today Echodas did very well
“He did well especially in attack, defensively he has enormous margins. He has to learn a little about the players, the referee method was very difficult to adapt to tonight too, but the referees are also at the beginning, but he is certainly growing game after game, today he was in his third game since the first one is not there. ‘he played. He is a guy who has margins and who is fitting in well with the team. The others I believe that overall they played good games, maybe not all of them, maybe with ups and downs, maybe someone having to clean up their game but this also passes through mutual knowledge, a knowledge of the moments, what to do when, therefore also the idea of giving up something, there are moments for which one is paid, so not everyone has to do everything, everyone has their own role if one has to throw pulls, if one has to take the rebounds he takes the rebounds. In this respect there are many small things that must be fixed immediately, but it takes time. It is natural that the more victories come, the more things settle with more mental availability, but I am very satisfied in general with the attitude of the team, than the players are a team in helping each other, in being ready to go on the pitch but also in going out and I who generally rotate all the players within the game for us this is a fundamental element because then you go to recruit energy maybe even at different times from different players. ”
Mitch, it had a great impact, maybe you missed that reference in the last few minutes?
“They have lowered themselves a lot by often playing with the fake four with Johnson from five, so we are a bit ‘adjusted because having a bit’ lost we say two defensive rules on some situations because we went a bit ‘to chase, because Martynas has tried to give us the internal reference, but defensively let’s say he wasn’t as present as before, so I preferred to go with Jeff da cionque and then alternate a little Julian a little Valerio, a little Austin himself that I wanted to take a little ‘of confidence given the bad start in the first two quarters even at the beginning of the third. For us he is a player who in any case must take confidence in these games, which unfortunately must serve as a pre-season there is an important result to be achieved but it must also be pre-season because it is the fourth game we play in 10 days so it seems difficult to me because you have to try. to win, pass the round anyway try to carry on a competition that then reaches the bottom are two, three games, so inside there is also the need to be able to find new balances in a completely new team, in important players and this should possibly be done so as not to lose, but it is not always an hourglass that is then equalized. ”
Come sta Mitchell?
“I saw it too that they gave him some stitches, it seems to me nothing more. But I don’t know the extent of the cut under the eye, but it seems to me that they closed it.”
Reggio Emilia scored 44 points in the area, while Reyer 20. Do you think it’s due to the way you play or did you suffer from the absence of MItch?
“It is due to Reggio Emilia’s ability to attack with the little ones over so many defensive changes, because I remember some penetrations by Crawford, Cinciarini, so that’s exactly what I was saying. In the third and fourth quarter what I was saying. it did not happen in the first 27-28 minutes where Reggio remained for many points at 48 minutes. So a really good defense, we got lost and then when our defense, after so many defenses you get lost, it becomes a defense with many loose meshes, we are went to change on actions that should not have been changed. They punished us maybe with a ball inside, with an offensive rebound and then it became difficult to get back on track by changing then many quintets, so there is certainly the skill of Reggio there are also some demerits on our part in not having been consistent especially in the one against one. “
