The Italian highlighted the “character” of his players and how they “kept calm” in the difficult moments of the match
“We controlled our nerves and we didn’t panic when they came back,” Scariolo said.
The Virtus Bologna coach, Sergio Scariolo, was happy with the performance of his players, after beating Barça in the Euroleague. He highlighted the “character” of his players and how they “kept their cool” in the difficult moments of the match.
“Nice victory against a high level team, I have to congratulate my players who showed great character and prepared well after the loss a few days ago. We shared the ball well, scoring many assisted baskets. Nice win but it’s just one, now we have other tough challenges ahead of us, let’s move on. My players kept their calm in the difficult moments of the game”, declared the Italian.
Scariolo was also pleased with the hard-fought victory since for him they have a team that is somewhat short of troops. “We don’t have a deep team as it may seem, we know our size and we hope to have continuity in terms of health because I think that by preparing the games well during the week we can compete well. Up to now we have had a very decent Euroleague and this has been a very high game level: we controlled our nerves and did not panic when they came back“.
He also spoke about the figure of Teodosico. “He had a difficult first part of the game, then he played his best minutes as he knows how to do, sometimes we were able to help him in defense and other times we weren’t. I think his plays helped the team especially when Barcelona started to play.”