{"id":5898,"date":"2026-06-03T15:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:34:33","slug":"improvement-must-start-with-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=5898","title":{"rendered":"\u201cImprovement must start with defense\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div apptemplateparser=\"\">\n<div>\n<p>Sergio Scariolo analyzed the first game of the quarterfinal playoffs against La Laguna Tenerife, which took place at the Movistar Arena: \u201cCongratulations to La Laguna Tenerife and Txus (Vidorreta). They showed faith, patience, and they are a very experienced team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were ahead for most of the game, but they never gave up. They never let us open that gap which could have ensured us a finish against their well-known accuracy in three-pointers, especially in the last seconds of possessions, where they were really precise, and in the closing minutes of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Three-point accuracy<\/b><br \/>\u201cThe difference in three-pointers was huge. They made 16 out of 31, while we made 4 out of 17. Even so, we scored nearly 100 points. Clearly, improvement must start with defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><i>Disclaimer: Translation generated by artificial intelligence. It may contain inaccuracies.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Scariolo analyzed the first game of the quarterfinal playoffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}