A furious Andrea Trinchieri commented on Zalgiris Kaunas’ loss at home to Olympiacos.<\/p>\n
“It’s impossible to play against such defense if you don’t go to the free throw line. It’s impossible for the level of contact and for how physical they are. … To me, it’s very clear. Then you lose confidence. We tried to attack, I believe that the [free throw] number says everything.”<\/span><\/p>\n “If you start scoring 3-point shots, they come over the 3-point line, you beat them, and you never go to the line, you cannot win the game. Mathematics.”<\/span><\/p>\n “I spent 2 challenges on episodes I shouldn’t challenge because they were very clear. 2 times, there’s no one referee, there are 3 referees, so I had big problems of communication. Then, I was trying to say, ‘You call 3 seconds on Smailagic.’ I trusted the referee, but then I counted 4 times, which was 3 seconds for Milutinov or Vezenkov.<\/span><\/p>\n “I tried to say that, of course, it didn’t go through, so the level of communication was below average, and that’s it. No technical foul,” Trinchieri said.<\/span><\/p>\n “The most efficient shots in basketball are free throws and threes, right? We tried to make them come out of the paint because they’re very big. And we did it — they came out, we beat them and… I can’t ask more from my players; look at the numbers.”<\/span><\/p>\n “Olympiacos has this defense that takes away all the joy you have to play: hitting, holding, grabbing. … Believe me, it’s very difficult. If you don’t shoot free throws, it’s impossible.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A furious Andrea Trinchieri commented on Zalgiris Kaunas’ loss at home to Olympiacos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":421450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-421451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/Andrea-Trinchieri.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421451"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=421451"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=421451"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=421451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}