In Treviso without pivot. There is too little time available to close the hole that opened with Totè’s injury. Playing on Saturday, registration closes this morning at 11am and attempts to get an Italian from downstairs were unsuccessful. One of the most interesting big men, Antonio Iannuzzi, with a past in Serie A in Avellino, is immovable by Nardò, a rich club in the midst of a fight for survival which does not want to let go of him. The other path could have led to Marcos Delia, the Argentinian with an Italian passport currently working in Udine: the Friulian club took the former Tortona Cannon in his place but the other American (Clark) got hurt and at the moment Delia it remained in place although virtually cut. At this point Carpegna Prosciutto has turned towards the American market, in particular towards the Australian championship which has just ended and where years ago it fished very well with Rotnei Clarke, but we will talk about it again after Easter if Sacchetti’s team manages to rise again. Today a victory at the Palaverde seems unlikely, especially in light of the unwatchable performance offered last Sunday against Reggio Emilia, but this team has now accustomed us to surprises, both positive and negative, and when you get the ball rolling you can never know which version we will see, whether Doctor Jekyll or Mr. Hyde.
Meanwhile, both the fans and the management are trying to resuscitate the ‘patient’ in this week in which morale has fallen short: yesterday the Tonucci club invited the players for an aperitif in a place near the arena: “In view of the decisive match against Treviso – explains Lorenzo Cortiglioni, president of the club – we wanted to meet the team to give a signal that it is important not to give up, fight and believe in it until the end. The controversies are now zero”. And even today, at the end of the afternoon training, the president of the Consortium together with the managers will bring the players together to push them not to give up prematurely. Not only is salvation important, but also avoiding finishing in last place, both for a question of dignity and for possible repechages. And instead the risk of finding themselves last in the standings already on Easter evening is real given that Brindisi plays at home against Banco di Sardegna, a match within reach. In the meantime, in Treviso they are fully loaded after their third consecutive victory, the fourth in the last five, with a roster that if they had started earlier with these gears would have made them travel to very different areas of the standings today. Much of the credit goes to the two former Brindisi players that Vitucci brought with him from Puglia: Ky Bowman, who was injured for a long time, but above all D’Angelo Harrison, who until recently was insulted by his own fans.
Elisabetta Ferri
