The words of Giannis Kastritis at the end of Virtus Segafredo Bologna-Pallacanestro Openjobmetis Varese:
“Congratulations to Virtus Bologna who played a very high level game showing us respect and not allowing us to do our thing, to play our game. For us already from the beginning it was hard to play away against the first in the standings, and it became even harder when before the game we realized that Moore could not play, although he still tried. As for the game certainly one of the keys was the rebounds: we left too many to Virtus and some of them were crucial in some moments of the game. Obviously we feel down in the dumps because we missed the playoffs at the last but at the same time I have to say that I am very proud of my team; at the beginning of the season someone didn’t believe in us, maybe someone considered us to be relegated, but we didn’t care what people thought because here was a group of real people who worked hard every day. We had ups and downs, times when we suffered, but we were always a team. We narrowly missed qualifying for the Italian Cup and now the playoffs but it’s progress not only for the team but for the whole club, the organization, culture that the club is building.”