With an extra, Note di Siena also wins Race 2 after recovering 15 points in San Vincenzo
Notes of Siena Mens Sana Basketball Siena – Garden Toscana Resort San Vincenzo Basket 89-85 dts (20-23, 39-43, 50-60, 77-77)
SIENA NOTES: Brambilla, Pannini 2, Iozzi 13, Giorgi ne, Marrucci 11, Figus ne, Puccioni 12, Sabia 9, Cucini, Perinti ne, Prosek 18, Tognazzi 24. All.: Betti
GARDEN TUSCANY: Bongini 11, Guerrieri 4, Bazzano 10, Persico 23, Giovani 2, Bertini 2, Bini ne, Mezzacapo 4, Battaglini ne, Bianchi 21, Guerra ne, Zanassi 8. All.: Barons.
Notes: Viewers 900, 5f exits Bertini, Iozzi, Tognazzi, Persico
The figures say that Note di Siena had studied for Game 2 of the Tuscany Play-off semi-finals of Serie C. The weapon had to be the speed: more points on the counterattack (20) and more shots (78) as happened (even if we refer only to the fourth quarter), but without marked evidence. Put it on rhythm it was a consequence of the different average ages of the teams to aim for an early fatigue of the best, and oldest, of San Vincenzo. Camillo Bianchi and Edoardo Persicowatch out for those two, 44p scored, 28 rebounds pulled off the board, 3 assists and twelve fouls conceded.
Coach Betti he didn’t have the slightest idea of giving greater freedom to the opposing pivot who, with a turn on the pivot foot, slipped it several times. Too soon, however, our big men were loaded with fouls and Persico did what he wanted for the entire second half; and in the first it was Bianchi who did it. Watch out for those two. But they feel her fatigue. They have today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to recover and then we will face them again. This time in their house.
But the superiority in running the game in San Vincenzo (38’36” ahead of 45’00”) was given to him by “last year’s boys”: Bongini who was more lucid than Giovani and massacred us with an 80% shot, Warriors And Bazzano who always put their bodies in front of us, the unpleasant dragonfly Zanassi who approaches the iron with an elegance of movement that he shouldn’t have yet.
Sorry, but even though I support Mens Sana, I admire San Vincenzo and I am still convinced that he is stronger than us. And I will say something absurd about Siena’s 2-0 Note: I think he has equal opportunities to ours. And equal opportunities means that those of Mens Sana have grown. Anyone keep in mind that this is the third match in a month with the seafarers, again in Siena, and with the current score which is 234 to 234?
This semi-final, however, must be concluded immediately, Sunday itself would be ideal. For good luck, I won’t say, to “not let the Costone rest ten days longer than us”.
Put back San Vincenzo in trust it would be very dangerous. And San Vincenzo now also has some awareness that he would not have wanted: 1. Agreed that everything is at stake, but one more false step and it’s over (anxiety), 2. But how is it that these, whatever maximum advantage accrues (yesterday 15p, 45-60), do I always fit in (fatalism)?
We would like this idea that Saint Vincent would begin to see meetings with us as one with another Borg Cube – “all resistance is useless” -, but we doubt it, so we leave them only this inevitability of the “certain” comeback and Mensan resilience. Indeed we would like to say that the race has begun to take place a little naughty. Precisely to stem the counterattacks of the Note di Siena, the ball carrier of each restart was always bumped, touched, unbalanced. The referees have always opted for non-voluntariness at least up to the obvious unsportsmanlike nature of Warriors on Tognazzi, heroic topscorer with 24p. But even at other times a loss of balance at full speed could have caused harm.
This Race 2 it led us to review some things. Beautiful, indifferent or ugly. Meanwhile the shot of Prosek from the center bezel, soft, polite, subtle, winning. Something he only does if he feels like it. The prowess then of Marrucci which makes him seem Martian compared to the others: for him San Vincenzo is ready to put together a script made of slips and breakthroughs. His idiosyncrasy for free throws has resurfaced (2/7 in a 13/24 team), while shooting with 50% is very good and could be tried more (4/8). We’re not scared of 1/6 of Captain Panninialso because many are shots that “advance”, that is, responsibility is taken like a siren for those who don’t. do you cook4 fouls, it was not repeated, nor Brambilla which however remains a “crouton” to be skipped. Sabia he made many many cuts but found time to shoot with 50%: 9p.
Puccioni whose ability to make sausages we increasingly need has changed a lot since it arrived in Siena. Today it is more team and less individual. Looking only at 4/13 seems reductive to us because it means forgetting how and how useful it was. But if he wants to go and score 5/5 in bombs in every race, that’s fine with us.
He talks a lot, he doesn’t stop doing it, in fact to do it with Prosek they are late under the bridge for a free second, but Andrea Iozzi he is one of our idols in this match: present in every double, present at the shot when needed.
And let’s go back to Victorwe want it like this… Cannibalreactive, ready to face two hundred kilos above his weight under the planks and emerge unscathed. Thanks bad boy.
They tell us we missed out good hospitality. Perhaps with the first company that, for years, wanted to get to know us before judging us. This will be a topic for a separate observation. In the meantime, let’s close with the clichés: happy to have survived at a Mens Sana match. Good job, everyone.
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