AS Estra Pistoia Basket announces that, in addition to winning the championship playoffs, the victory on Sunday 28 April at “Il T Quotidiano Arena” in Trento rightfully enters the club’s history given that it is the 100th victory in the top flight.
A clear success, given the final score of 80-105, which will remain engraved in the almanac of Pistoia Basket memories, also because it coincided with the two decisive points to gain access to the post-season and to improve the club record , now led to eight away victories in a single season, after the blitz at the beginning of April at Segafredo Virtus Bologna had improved the previous ones.
Pistoia Basket’s roadmap in the LBA talks about 243 matches played with a record of 100 victories and 143 defeats between the regular season and the playoffs (in the post-season the path is 3 wins and 9 knockouts). While waiting to know who the opponent will be (it will only be known at the end of the match against Openjobmetis Varese based also on the various hypotheses of a draw on the 30th matchday), what is coming is the fourth qualification for the playoffs in the red and white history on eight participations in Serie A (50% attendance): in the previous ones there were matches, always in the quarter-finals, against EA7 Armani Milano (3-2 for the Lombards), Sidigas Avellino (3-0 for the Campania) and Umana Venezia (3-1 for the Venetians).
To cite some other historical passages, the first victory of Pistoia Basket in LBA dates back to November 9, 2013 with the 65-60 imposed at PalaCarrara by the then Giorgio Tesi Group on Vanoli Cremona (18 points from JJ Johnson and 15 from Deron Washington were decisive). The fiftieth victory, however, was recorded on the 10th day of the 2016/17 championship, precisely the December 4, 2016when The Flexx beat Fiat Torino 89-73 with 24 points and 11/13 from two by Andrea Crosariol to which 18 from Terran Petteway must be added.
The last record, for now, which has already been set by Estra Pistoia Basket concerns the team’s offensive production: with 40 minutes left in the regular season, Della Rosa and his teammates scored 2354 points, already marking the best offensive performance of Pistoia Basket in its history in Serie A, exceeding the 2311 of 2015/16 and the 2306 of the 2016/17 season. This is also thanks to over the top performances (twice reaching 100 in the away matches against Tortona and Bologna, 105 against Trento) while at home the offensive high was recorded during the defeat against Happy Casa Brindisi with 90 points on the scoresheet .
