After 32 regular season games, the men’s Serie A2 basketball playoffs begin for Trapani Shark. Granata, first in the green group, engaged at home in game 1 of the quarter-finals against Piacenza, eighth in the red group. The two teams have different objectives: Trapani, in fact, has clearly declared that it aspires to move up the category.
The final result of the match certifies the ambitions of Valerio Antonini’s club. The team led by coach Diana prevailed against the Emilian team with the final result of 90-69. The match was almost never in question, with the Sicilians always leading the match and with the fourth partial decisive to extend the score at the final siren.
“At the beginning we had to shake off a bit of rust due to the lack of competition for 2 weeks and the emotion of the first – says the Granata coach Andrea Diana at the end of the race -. In the long run, however, our talent and our desire to play as a team came to the fore with the 21 assists reflecting a great desire to pass the ball to us. In game 2 we will expect Piacenza to play with a knife between their teeth and try to impact the series.”
“Piacenza is a team that thrives on offensive gusts because they have players who manage to fire up and score even out of rhythm. The playoffs are very long, our roster is very long and it will be my job and that of the staff to ride the positive moments of all the players, I am sure that everyone will find their moment. Today the 53 points scored from the bench are an important figure“, concluded the coach.
