Live from the PalaLeonessa in Brescia, the verbatim report of the match between the hosts Germani and Happy Casa starting from 6.15pm. Last day of the championship, with coach Magro’s team looking for a victory to get closer to the playoffs, while Brindisi with the aim of saying goodbye to the category in the best possible way.
THE FINAL: Brescia 94-75 Brindisi
Brescia closes the regular season with a success and is preparing to enter the playoffs after a year of absence. Brindisi plays with heart but has to say goodbye to the top flight with a defeat. Akele (16 total points) started strongly for the hosts who made the decisive breakthrough in the second half thanks to Della Valle (18 points). For Brindisi, Morris’ 16 is worth mentioning.
Fourth Q: Della Valle with three points opens the last 10 minutes of the game. Cuornooh replicates his captain’s triple and makes Germani +13. Three free throws by Della Valle who scores +16. Third triple of the quarter for Brescia who closed the match with Gabriel: +19 with 6.25 left before the final siren. Brindisi returns to -13 with Washington’s triple. Bilan gets back to work and scores two points from below, equalized by Lombardi. Triple by Gabriel which puts the definitive end to the match: 88-70 Brescia with 2.40 to go. There’s room for spectacle with the alley-oop raised for Gabriel’s dunk. Finsice 94-75 for Brescia at Palaleonessa.
Third Q: Laszewski opens the scoring in the second half. Christon responds from medium distance. Triple by Akele at the end of the 24 and out of balance for the new +11 Brescia. Brindisi is back under the double-digit deficit thanks to Sneed but Della Valle is not there and scores the triple for +10. Bartley penetrates and scores the two points of -8 canceled out by yet another basket from Akele. Bayehe scores after being fouled by Gabriel for -7 Brindisi. Burnell scores and gets the technical blame for a few too many words addressed to Sneed. Maximum advantage for Brescia with Cobbins scoring 4 consecutive points for +14 at 65-51: Brindisi timeout with 3.12 on the third period clock. Brindisi tries to come back and arrives at -9 and with Sneed he misses the triple from the corner for -6. The third quarter ends 69-60 in favor of Brescia.
According to Q: Winning triple by Morris which gives Brindisi the first lead of the evening, immediately canceled out by Cuornooh’s basket which puts Germani back ahead. Burnell recovers the rebound and scores, on the other side Morris left alone from the corner scores the triple which is replicated in the other half of the court by Gabriel. The two teams exchange baskets with Bartley for Brindisi and Bilan for Germani. Morris brings Brindisi back ahead at the 24 minute siren, but Akele continues to find the back of the net, this time after capturing the offensive rebound from Della Valle’s error. Ball lost by Brindisi and Della Valle shoots the triple to make it 41-34 which forces the guests to call a timeout: 2.43 to half time. Bartley eats an already made basket in penetration, while Christon on the other side goes +9. Foul by Laszewski on Della Valle’s triple who goes to the line with three free throws: 2/3 and +11 Brescia. The first half ends 47-39 for Brescia after the three free throws scored by Washington.
First Q: All ready for the tap-off. Akele scored the first two points of the evening. Akele again for Brescia, this time from three after Bayehe’s basket. Coast-to-coast by Miro Bilan who scores the 7-2 for Brescia before also launching the triple to make it 10-2. Seven points from Akele in this start for +10 Germani. Brindisi shakes up with Laszewski’s triple. Bartley scores away from the baseline and Happy Casa gets back to -4. Washington rises from the midfield and scores, Akele responds from underneath in the other half of the field: 18-12 with three minutes to play in the quarter. Massinburg cuts to the center of the area, receives from Burnell and scores two more points for Brescia. As soon as he enters, Riismaa moves the retina from three points. Laszewski with the second triple of the evening on target for -2 Brindisi. Cobbins collects the offensive rebound and scores from underneath the new +4 Brescia. Burnell’s foul on Morris who will go to the line with 1.8 left in the first quarter: 2/2 and the score is 22-20 in favor of Germani.
