{"id":497757,"date":"2026-05-21T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497757"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:05:19","slug":"scariolo-before-the-final-four-if-you-become-too-emotional-you-can-lose-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/scariolo-before-the-final-four-if-you-become-too-emotional-you-can-lose-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Scariolo before the Final Four: \u201cIf you become too emotional, you can lose control\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1810\" data-end=\"2100\">Sergio Scariolo spoke in the press conference on the eve of the <strong data-start=\"1874\" data-end=\"1899\">EuroLeague Final Four<\/strong>, where <strong data-start=\"1907\" data-end=\"1922\">Real Madrid<\/strong> will face <strong data-start=\"1933\" data-end=\"1945\">Valencia<\/strong> in the second semifinal. The coach immediately focused on balance, explaining that in this kind of setting the management of emotions can become decisive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2102\" data-end=\"2353\">\u00abThe key is always to have balance. There are so many great teams. Everybody is focused on their own strategy\u00bb.<br data-start=\"2213\" data-end=\"2216\" \/>\u00abIf you become too emotional, you can lose control\u00bb.<br data-start=\"2268\" data-end=\"2271\" \/>\u00abMy opinion is that you must find the right balance between pressure and emotion\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2355\" data-end=\"2705\">Scariolo then widened the discussion and spoke about what still drives him in basketball, bringing everything back to passion for the sport and the desire to leave a positive mark.<br data-start=\"2535\" data-end=\"2538\" \/>\u00abEverything is done for the love of the game\u00bb.<br data-start=\"2584\" data-end=\"2587\" \/>\u00abWe love the game, we try to put our little piece in to make the sport better\u00bb.<br data-start=\"2666\" data-end=\"2669\" \/>\u00abYou can stand out through respect\u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Scariolo spoke in the press conference on the eve of the EuroLeague Final Four<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":474473,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497757","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\/12\/ND-SCARIOLO-01_1VC9148.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497757","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=497757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497757"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497757"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497757"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}