By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Brose Bamberg registered a 58 points EuroLeague season-low against Unics Kazan, ultimately losing the game and falling to a 7 – 10 record in the competition.
Quite naturally, Andrea Trinchieri didn’t like what he saw from his players’ scoring efforts, mentioning that his team’s offense.. “sucked.”
“Congratulations to Unics Kazan. They were able to win the game in the end. We were bad throughout the whole game but still we managed to be up by 12. Our offense sucked tonight. We played without concentration. We weren’t smart. And we didn’t have any kind of mental presence in the key moments of the game.”
Nicolo Melli didn’t perform according to his usual form and there was a specific reason for this. “Melli was not feeling good. He put great effort on court. But maybe he wasn’t in the right shape. Anyway, it was a very very very bad game. But we could win it, even by playing bad.”
Andrea Trinchieri praised Keith Langford who “killed” Brose Bamberg with 27 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists.
“Many teams can’t stop Langford. He’s simply the best or one of the two best guards in Europe. If you put together De Colo, Teodosic, Spanoulis and Langford you have an all-star team. You can play with four players. We can add Llull and then we have five guards who can score 25 points in every game.”
He then talked about Andrew Goudelock, who he coached in Unics back in 2013-2014, comparing him and Langford with… wines!
“Players are like wines. Good bottle of wines. Andrew Goudelock is an excellent young wine. Langford is like a barolo! A very good rosé Italian wine. He’s been 12 years in Europe. He has worked so much. He became patient and that’s very important for a scorer. And I saw him first in Europe because he played with him as a rookie in 2005. You didn’t know this one, right? Now he has put together all his journey in a bag of experience and he plays like this.”
Here's the 'Players are like wine' speech by @andreatrinkieri from last night. Because I see it in butchered quotes everywhere. pic.twitter.com/HhBZPtPDiu
— Alexander Chernykh (@chernykh) 13 Ιανουαρίου 2017