Scariolo: “The team is ready. We will fight.”

Spanish basketball coach, Sergio ScarioloLithuania has admitted that Lithuania will start with a certain advantage in this Saturday’s European round of 16 match in Berlin, but his players will be forced to “compete” with the Baltic team. “I am ready,” he said.

“We have been preparing. A large part of the work has been, by unanimous judgment, to adjust the distance that separates us, and we will try,” the coach said this Friday. After training in the German capital, he made his appearance.

The Italian coach praised the Lithuanian team. NBA“All-Star” with high-level players euroleague”, and regretted overcoming the Baltic team in the round of 16.

“The team is ready, we are going to compete, obviously Lithuania They were expected to be in the last four, they usually play in the semi-finals or even the quarter-finals, but they played us in the round of 16 even though they won the group.” rice field. .

in any case, Scariolo He highlighted the “excellent first phase” his team had completed, saying that in his opinion, “only slightly exceeded expectations and achieved all objectives” before EuroBasket.

“The way we’ve fought, the sense of the team we’ve been given, the fact that we’ve used quite a few players for future experience, the fact that we’ve reached the cross-phase with 12 players involved. Other than the rotation. So no one has fallen short of expectations,” he said.

All in all, Scariolo He warned the students that tomorrow, in Group A, they would face rivals who are physically and technically superior to the rivals they have met so far.