Italy seems on throughout a recreation towards the Dominican Republic within the Fiba World Cup. -MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines — Italy has no time to sulk over its powerful loss to the Dominican Republic as skipper Luigi Datome urges his group to maintain the religion in themselves forward of their essential match towards Gilas Pilipinas on Tuesday at Araneta Coliseum.
The world No. 10 Italy absorbed an 87-82 defeat in Group A with Karl-Anthony Cities and Andres Feliz powering the Twenty third-ranked Dominicans with 24 factors every on Sunday on the Large Dome.
Datome, who scored eight factors, stated they should shortly shift their focus to Jordan Clarkson and Gilas after sliding to a 1-1 document.
“At this stage, you already know, there’s no time for melancholy, no time for euphoria. I feel we’ve been, we’re sufficiently old, everyone went by means of vital video games, everyone performed towards powerful residence court docket,” stated Datome.
“An important recreation to organize [for]. Put together to maneuver ahead to the second spherical. We’re gonna rewatch for positive the sport at the moment. Put together however carry on believing in ourselves, in fact, carry on trusting one another. And we all know it’s gonna be laborious [against Gilas] prefer it was laborious at the moment prefer it was laborious two days in the past. Nothing totally different.” he added.
The Azzurri, who absorbed their first loss after going unbeaten in seven exhibition video games previous to the World Cup, couldn’t maintain their blazing 12-0 begin as their coach Gianmarco Pozzecco was ejected after getting his second technical foul late within the second quarter.
The Dominicans surged within the second half behind the recent arms of Feliz and Cities.
Italy’s Simone Fontecchio on the Fiba World Cup. -MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
Marco Spissu led the Italians with 17 factors, 5 rebounds, and 4 assists, as Simone Fontecchio scored 13 however shot 4-of-15 from the sector.
“We began excellent [in the] recreation. We have been additionally controlling it, after for positive, they made, they created exterior pictures and so they have been ok to make a variety of them, and vice versa, we created some good pictures, we couldn’t make it — percentages once more weren’t good for us and us as a group, when you don’t shoot effectively from three you gotta be nearly good within the different features of the sport,” stated Datome. “As a result of we management the ball, we shoot good from two, not make [too much] turnovers however I feel the important thing of the sport was that. So, congrats to them. For us, we have to prepare for the subsequent one, in fact, it’s gonna be essential.”
Datome pressured the significance of guarding Clarkson and the gamers round him as they search to ebook a seat within the subsequent spherical.
“In fact, the Philippines, like Dominican Republic, they’ve a single nice participant and throughout them there’s a superb group. So for positive, it’s essential to restrict this participant, you can’t cease them, they’re so good, you’ll be able to solely restrict them with teamwork,” he stated. “[We have to] take note of the others as a result of they’re all good gamers and have a recreation plan, attempt to execute it, keep it up, and on the finish of the day, we attempt to do the identical factor.”
Datome and the Azzurri are additionally bracing for the house crowd, which set a brand new Fiba World Cup attendance document on opening day at Philippine Area.
“It’s gonna be thrilling, I feel, [it’s] gonna be a pleasant environment and all of the gamers like to play in a pleasant environment. We’re gonna management what we are able to do on the court docket. Sooner or later relaxation is simply the atmosphere. We must be targeted on our job,” he stated.
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