Hello everyone! After the first four games of the competition, I have to say that I'm very happy for our performance so far. Before starting the season, I think nobody thought we would be able to get three wins in a row (losing the fourth game just in overtime), especially since we played against powerhouses like CSKA, Caja Laboral and Maccabi Electra! Nobody around the team is able to explain the difference in our abilities in the Euroleague games as opposed to Italian League games, but it probably has something to do with the name of the opponents, their tradition, and the level of concentration we place on the Euroleague games. By the way, I did not play the last game against Maccabi because I was injured a few days before in one of those Italian League games, against Biella at home in PalaLottomatica. I jumped too high for a rebound and coming down I sprained my left knee. I have to remain sidelined still for the next three weeks! The next time we play in the Italian League against Biella, I will ask Coach Gentile not to play me because I was injured playing against the same team during the 2008-09 season when I broke a finger!

We started our Euroleague season with Caja Laboral at home. We played a great game, and we probably surprised them. They did not expect us to play so team-oriented and with great intensity, but we showed ourselves to be solid and we won the battle under the glass despite a lot of experts saying we don't have the size to be competitive at this level.

A week later we travelled to Moscow to face the 2009 Euroleague runner-up. In this case, it was easier because we did not have any pressure on us! Many teams go to Moscow first of all to contain the difference. We played a good...

Cheers to everybody from the Eternal City! Here in Roma we are ready to start a new and exciting Euroleague season. There is great excitement in the locker room and all the players are already focused on our first challenge, a great matchup with TAU Vitoria – oh, sorry ‘bout that – with Caja Laboral, one of the best teams in the competition. They may have changed their name during the summer, but they are still a great team and playing them in our debut gives us some extra motivation - but also some big worries.

I think that Ricky Minard is more excited than any other player on our team because it will be his first-ever Euroleague game. We also have players coming back to the Euroleague like Kennedy Winston and Toure Herve, who also can't wait for that first tipoff. We're coming off a bad defeat in the Italian League, to Treviso in a game we could have won. Our Euroleague debut is a special chance to get back on track. We know it's a special night and we want to make it even more special by winning.

Another reason we need to win is to start to bring our fans into the excitement. You know, Rome is so big and full of happenings that sometimes it's difficult to involve the crowd. You need to get results and you have to push them to love your team. The fans that come to the arena are great and they help us a lot. Their support is never lacking. In the locker room, we have it very clear: one of our goals this year is to conquer...