Tomorrow the challenge with the French: in the technical staff there is his son Stefan. Coach Ivanovic looks to the future: "We are focused on Paris"

Bitterness for the defeat, with the challenge that was decided in the second quarter. He is a man of few words Dusko Ivanovic, moreover like his colleague Zeliko Obradovic, in a quick conference, which ended without any questions. Front Virtus, but also front Partizan there is a desire to leave this challenge behind and to project ourselves towards the next appointments which, for Virtus, mean tomorrow's commitment with Paris.

"It was a tough game, we knew it – confirmed Ivanovic – decided on both sides by the second quarter which acted as a watershed. We tried to react and play our basketball in the second half, filing down some details, some small things that hadn't worked in the first, but it was very difficult against a team like that".

Ivanovic is defeated, but not resigned. "We accept the verdict of the field, both for the performance of the second quarter and for a second half in which the team was combative, let's leave the challenge with Partizan behind us and think about the next match that awaits us". Virtus who had closed ahead 23-17 in the first quarter, which saw the score and inertia overturned in the second quarter of the game and which at the beginning of the third partial had also touched -14 on 38-52. From there, the Black V tried a gradual climb up to -4 in the last quarter, on 65-69, not enough however to overturn a Partizan that despite playing with 7 elements put more energy on the field. Tomorrow Paris, a team in whose staff there is Stefan Ivanovic, son of the black and white coach Dusko.