Coach Simone Pianigiani introduced the upcoming game in Vitoria, Round 19 of the EuroLeague regular season: “We share the same records and at the same time we are dealing with some absences. They are playing well, some of their players, like Huertas, Vildoza, Janning and Shields, are looking great. They don’t have Shengelia and using different options at the 4. Sometimes they have four runners on the court and their fastbreak can be lethal. We have to improve our transition defense. The last few losses have been all determined by the points that we allowed on the break. And we’ll have to do better defending the pick and roll, something that normally we do well but with no enough consistency. Offensively we’ll have to overcome their aggressiveness and shoot a little bit better. It’s important not to lose confidence when we’ll experience some troubles. We can execute some little details better and a that point we can turn the momentum around one more time”.