Scariolo: We need to extend the range of intense and intelligent basketball of our team

EA7 Emporio Armani Milano vs Virtus Segafredo Bologna. Tip-off tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 09, 8:30 p.m., Medionalum Forum (Milan).

Sky Sport, Eleven Sports and Radio Nettuno Bologna Uno.

Referees: DANIEL HIERREZUELO, EMIN MOGULKOC, UROS OBRKNEZEVIC.

Out Awudu Abass. Nico Mannion, per an agreement between the cCub and ItalBasket, reached the national team’s retreat in Pesaro.

Coach Scariolo: “Definitely one of the most difficult away games in the Euroleague, against a great team, with great experience and physicality. Milan has a lot of potential especially from the three-point line. From our side we have to be aware that we need to play a great game to compete and we have prepared well, I have seen the players quite well in these two days. Clearly the important improvement is to be able to extend the good minutes of basketball: we have had many moments of excellent basketball on both sides of the court this season but unfortunately we have not yet been able to do it for the full 40′ of a game. From this point of view we need to improve and in front of us we have a game that forces you to make the leap. We need to extend the range of intense and intelligent basketball of our team.”

Lundberg:“We have a tough game ahead of us, against a team that has a high level of physicality and is very competitive for the Euroleague. We have been working well these days together with our staff: our thought must be to win. I think we will go on the court ready to do that: we will have to play extremely hard to try to win, putting all our energy on the court.”