Discover the reactions of coach Luca Banchi and Bodian Massa after the victory on the Limoges CSP floor.
I really appreciated how everyone tried to help out and tonight I saw some guys actually stepping up to win. This allows us to produce 40 minutes with good consistency. The score speaks for itself. We have a better percentage on shots because we shared the ball well. We controlled the rebound and in the end I think we did a good job.
Now we will finally have some time to rest and then work to improve some aspects of our game because difficult matches await us. I am happy with the performance of my team, happy with the return of Marcus, happy to see my players raise their level of play and happy to feel a good atmosphere in the locker room after a victory.
I am firmly convinced that the efforts we have seen and the performances signed against Bonn and Monaco deserve a good end to the season. We have so many absentees. We have had so many injuries. I’m sorry I can’t do more, but we have to remember the values that the players on the pitch have shown, are showing and will continue to show. A career is also made of moments like these. You have to face adversity and seize every opportunity. Sometimes we may have lacked personality, but not tonight. Tonight everyone had the desire and the will to help despite the mistakes we sometimes made. Everybody wanted to show their best face
».B.Mass : “It was a serious match for the team because we were coming out of two major setbacks for teams that are behind us. We had to raise the bar at all costs because we have the ambition at the start of the season to go to the Playoffs. We found ourselves a bit back to the wall with a very big defeat where we lost the average basket and a defeat in Nancy. Today, I think we have a little “ensured” the maintenance.
The fact of having several days to prepare for the match necessarily plays a role. Limoges was like an “injured animal” which has the same ambitions as us at the start of the season. We found the two teams with their backs to the wall. We can not hide that the return of Marcus has done a lot of good. Having an extra leader is good for the team and it reassures everyone. I think it’s thanks to the aggressiveness, the fact of being consistent over 40 minutes that allowed us to win this evening.
It’s not at all the same team we played at the start of the season. They changed players and at the level of the classification, they stagnated a little. Each time they came back, we maintained the aggressiveness and we managed to widen the gap. In the first leg, they won with us so it’s important to get the basket average back tonight.
We are frustrated with the calendar but above all with the fact of not having a full squad so that the coach can make his own choices and not default choices. It would have been less frustrating and it would have allowed us to be judged. These are not excuses.
As a player or coach, it’s very complicated to change squads match after match.
2023-04-29 20:59:34
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