Crossroads of destinies with Spezia and Gallarate for the Basketball Club Lucca

The athletic and tactical preparation of the team continues at a rapid pace Basketball Club Lucca in view of the decisive meeting with the Borgomanero Collegea Piedmontese team with high offensive potential.

In the roster of the Borgomanero College there are many names with outstanding scoring skills: the first ever is the very young Ferrari, 19 years old, more than two meters tall, athletic and with wrists calibrated for shooting at the basket, from where it doesn’t matter, his score in interregional B is 534 points scored. He recently made national basketball headlines for his performance in an Under 19 Eccellenza match against Cus Genova, in which he scored 66 points. But he is not the only one, Benzoni follows him closely with 521 points this season, then there are also slightly more – normal guys – Trucchetti, 299 points, Zanetti 269 and Pettinaroli with 238, all the others are between 118 and 150 points scored.

With these numbers, defining College Borgomanero as one of many teams becomes very simplistic. Usually to define a strong team it is called a battleship, a definition that gives a good idea of ​​the strength, given the size that these ships generally have, but for the College perhaps it is better to define it as a gunboat, as there are many boys capable of firing broadsides at hitting the basket very often.

Against such a well-armed and above all young team, also equipped with a lot of energy, it becomes difficult to play it openlythe risk is of being beaten on every one-on-one, failing to be explosive like coach Di Cerbo Stefano’s boys. Olivieri and his staff know well what awaits themmindful of the first leg, where they managed to stem Ferrari’s exuberance, but they were unable to sufficiently limit Trucchetti who finished with 20 points on the scoresheet, Benzoni with 21, Pillastrini and Zanetti, with 12 and 11.

So during the week of training, new solutions and game dynamics were tested to stem the impetuous attacks of the opponents and hit them in the way they least expect.

During the training sessions, but certainly also before and after, Olivieri and his staff can often be found sitting on a bench on the side of the pitch, talking to each other in a very close way and with pen and paper in hand, drawing circles, points , parabolas, straight lines, dotted lines, zigzags and numbers, many numbers, but always from one to five everywhere.

The match will be decisive in every aspect and the final result that the Bcl seeks is only one, the conquest of the two points up for grabs, then at the end the necessary calculations will be made based on the result that will come from Spezia where they will face Tarros Spezia and Gallarate.

The current combinations predict that in the event of a victory for Bcl and a defeat for Spezia, the red and whites will go through. In the event that both win, Tarros Spezia would pass by virtue of the results of the qualification, and finally if Gallarate were to win on the La Spezia field and in the only perhaps useful situation the Bcl were to succumb against the College Borgomanero, a separate ranking would be created with three teams in 16 points, but its functioning is not yet clear.

Tap-off on Sunday 21st at the Palasport in Lucca at 6pm referees Zanzarella and Forte di Siena