In the week leading up to the Final Four in Athens, Sergio Scariolo spoke with Giuseppe Nigro of *La Gazzetta dello Sport*. Here are some of his comments.<\/p>\n
On the Final Four<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cTo be honest, in my career I\u2019ve only felt like I had a Final Four-caliber team twice: in Malaga, not the year we made it but the year before, and this year, when we started to really click and were consistently among the top four. I\u2019m happy with what I\u2019ve achieved with all my teams. But it\u2019s like when you play briscola\u2014you need to get the ace and the three…\u201d<\/p>\n On the injuries to Tavares and Len<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been hit by a tsunami with these two injuries that have completely disrupted our dynamics. On offense, we\u2019ll have to be more aggressive; on defense, we\u2019ll have to prevent the ball from getting into the paint easily, knowing that there\u2019s no \u2018Mastrolindo\u2019 behind us to protect us. And then we\u2019ll have to go hard on the boards.\u201d<\/p>\n On NBA Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cReal is very active in trying to build a bridge between the EuroLeague and NBA Europe; they haven\u2019t taken sides but understood from the very beginning that as long as there\u2019s a chance for an agreement, we need to work together and all make an effort to achieve something together.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen there will come a time\u2014in a few weeks\u2019 time\u2014when we\u2019ll have to make a final decision, but I think there\u2019s still room to maintain a certain degree of unity for the good of our basketball, which means not squandering the EuroLeague\u2019s legacy and not missing the opportunity to see the premier institution of our sport, which has expressed a desire to enter Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the week leading up to the Final Four in Athens, Sergio Scariolo spoke with Giuseppe Nigro of *La Gazzetta dello Sport*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":497682,"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":[199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Sergio-Scariolo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497683","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=497683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497683"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497683"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497683"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}