«Winning to end the season well» – PugliaLive – Online information newspaper

«Hunger can’t be missing when the play-offs are involved», he said on the eve of the last match in the single Serie C

Pavimaro on stage on Sunday evening in Mesagne. Molfetta Basketball, on the pitch on Sunday on the Mesagne rectangle, has various reasons to close the single Serie C championship with a victory, despite already having the certainty of playing in the play-offs, albeit from fourth in the standings. It was a complicated regional tournament, definitely more complicated than expected, there’s no point in beating around the bush. Solimini’s club, unless there are sensational shocks on the last day, will close the regular season in fourth place, behind leaders Unica Canusium, Ondatel Virtus Matera and Valentino Castellaneta. Some important points were lost along the way (the last two in Altamura), there were lapses in concentration in some decisive matches, particularly away from home. This is the reason why the red and white entourage consider it morally necessary to end the regular season of the regional tournament with a victory, the seventeenth of the season. It would help to say goodbye with a smile in view of the promotion play-offs for the jump to inter-regional Serie B in which the top four in the team will participate.

The red and whites want the last two points of the regular season. On the horizon, for coach Gesmundo’s team, there is a trip to Mesagne, which has already fallen on the PalaPoli parquet 81-67 and is second to last in the rankings, ahead only of bottom team Apricena. «We want to win, for all of us it would be very important – clarified Sabit Kodra -, both to close the regular season in the best possible way and to start the play-offs with full confidence». Pavimaro, therefore, in the last effort foreseen by the Cunica calendar, has a great desire to close with a success: «We are pleased to play and, at the same time, we also give it to our red and white fans: we had an excellent championship and now we want to close it with a flourish.” Opposite, however, is the team of Argentine coach Sanchez who can count on three players averaging double figures in points per game: the American small forward with a Dutch passport Smith (20.6 points), the guard Angelini (15.6 points ) and the Czech pivot Kasa (13.5 points). Winning will also serve to get to the promotion pool in the best possible way in which Molfetta, in case of fourth place, will meet Canusium. «We will arrive at the play-offs with the desire to win», is Kodra’s promise. The appointment with the last round is for Sunday 21 April at the gym of the Muscogiuri scientific high school in Mesagne at 6.00 pm.