This is what the protagonists had to say after the Round 13 showdown between Valencia Basket and Virtus Segafredo Bologna.
Post-game quotes: Valencia vs. Virtus
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Valencia Basket head coach Joan Peñarroya:
"We are happy for two reasons, because of the win in a game that turned out to be very hard, and for the atmosphere that we have at La Fonteta tonight. That is our first goal, that our people are involved and enjoy the game like we did today. Some of us, I would dare to say, experienced this atmosphere for the first time. We had a good start, with good rhythm, dynamic, without letting their very good halfcourt offense give us trouble. But after that, they showed they are a great team, with players who have a lot of physical skills, with very good defensive concepts. That led us to a halfcourt offense that was hard for us, also because we didn't have an especially brilliant day with our shooting percentages. When we started the second half, we had a third quarter in which we started soft on defense and thick on offense, picking up 8 turnovers. The game looked ugly being 11 points down, but we found a lineup which gave us more flow on offense and defense, and I believe it is a win with a great spirit, backed by a great atmosphere at La Fonteta."
Virtus Segafredo Bologna head coach Sergio Scariolo:
"It was a very intense basketball game. I think that first of all, we have to congratulate our opponent. They are a really, really, really good one. Experienced, very athletic, with big size, with a very, very big rotation - 12 players who can really interchange, so congrats to them and to Joan [Peñarroya] for his good job. At the same time, I have to tell you that we get out of this game strengthened because we proved that even short-handed, with a couple of players that were just out of COVID, even when they tried to help and they did, actually, in the fourth quarter were really out of gas completely, that's understandable, we had two great middle quarters. I think that also, at the end of the first, we managed to come back from a bad start. And in the fourth, I think we made too many childish mistakes, really inexperienced and immature mistakes, so they took advantage of this and you have to accept it, improve, learn, watch film and get back on the floor, keeping the good things we did, which have been many. The improvement of our players, who have been solid, and try to learn from mistakes we did. I think that the game really turned upside down with that unsportsmanlike foul, which I don't want to judge before watching it back, but it was a great turning point in the game, so let's move forward. We have a lot of competition in front of us. We have to be positive and stay together because we are proving that we are getting better and better as a team."
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