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With the series at 0-1 for Treviso, nothing is lost yet for MantovAgricoltura, but they will need to win to draw and try to seek redemption and move on to the possible third match. First, however, we will have to face Race 2 today at 7.30pm within the external walls of the Pala Pascale. The determination of the Treviso players will have to try to be limited by the Sangiorgigines, who in the control room will be able to rely on Elena Fietta, a point guard with burning speed who has returned to her mind on Saturday evening’s match: “We certainly expected their physicality and desire to bring it at home: they were aware that they had to put a lot of energy into it and they did everything they had to do to bring it home and so it happened. Right from the start they were also on point regarding the technical choices, their game plan was very clear and as a team they worked well together.”
“What we didn’t expect was the absence of Florencia: alibi or no alibi, whatever you want, the absence of a starting five shifts the balance, as it would shift them in any other team and it shifted them for us too; without her , then discovering it a few minutes before the kickoff, we were not able to set up, on a mental level, the solution to this unexpected event, perhaps not immediately understanding fully how to make up for it. For the first 20 minutes we didn’t know if it would have been one of us or not, so it had an impact both on a game level and on a psychological level.”
The stakes are becoming increasingly important and the challenge awaiting Fietta and his teammates at the Pala Pascale is crucial for the red and whites’ path to the playoffs: “It’s a win or go home. We know that for the group we are we will and must give 100% also for our captain, whose presence is still uncertain, but at the same time we also have time to prepare for this eventuality, certainly arriving more ready for Game 2 than for Race 1.” The work of these days on the pitch is dedicated to increasing energy and re-establishing mental consistency: “In these days we will have to be mentally ready, understand well the shortcomings of Game 1 by equalizing and overcoming their energy level, playing our basketball focusing on our strengths: each of us will have to make a little more effort to accommodate what we lack… we can do it, it’s in our strengths and in our nature, as individuals and as a team. This will be the key.”
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