CAMPOBASSO – The start of the fourth phase of the path of the women’s Serie B team, after the regular season, the clock phase and the playoffs in the pool with Campania, Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria, the junior team La Molisana Magnolia Campobasso enters the national phase of cadetship which will lead to four promotions for the A2.
In the group of the first play-off, the fiorellinidappello will face the I have a team Ragusa, an under 19 team of Virtus Eirene (A1 club like the rossoblù, which has interrupted, like the fioridappello , its virtuous seasonal journey in the semifinals). With the first leg at 4pm on the second Sunday of May on the PalaMinardi parquet and the return to the Arena seven days later (probably at 2pm to allow the islanders to return on the same day) the play-off – which will take place with a view to the double match with difference in baskets as happens in European cups – will admit the winner to concentration number two for the semi-final with the Venetian Giants Marghera (first leg at home, return to the Venetian area), prologue to the possible final with one between Canegrate and the winner of the Piedmontese tournament that will emerge from a Final Four scheduled for this weekend with Pegli, Derthona, Cuneo and Turin in contention.
NEW DISCOVERIES For the two contenders, the closure of the path of the A1 teams will mean that, in the circumstance, all the rotations will be available.
«For us – explains Campobassane coach Gabriele Diotallevi on the eve – it is a new discovery against a team that, like us, had to deal, along its path, with a staff that had to comply with the commitments of the A1. They have elements of absolute depth such as Laura Gatti, Federica Mazza, Melaine Olodo and Josephine Di Fine, who represent their references. In particular, among the internal players, they do not have elements of size, but very mobile players who allow their coach (Ivan Baglieri, ed.) to create a particularly dynamic game.”
TEN ON THE REPORT The rossoblù, who will reach Sicily already on Saturday, on the eve of the match, will present ten rotations (nine from the under 19 team plus Costato). Boraldo, Quiñonez and Rizzo will be missing from that group that won the scudetto in Battipaglia, but they are ready to give their contribution to the cause already in the return match.
«However, we find Emma Giacchetti again – adds Diotallevi – which will give us further defensive substance and phosphorus in the maneuver. In particular, the intensity in defense and the ability to take good shots will be aspects of no small importance, given their qualities of dynamism and transition. We will find different situations compared to those experienced so far in our relevant tournament, but we will have to do it with the utmost attention and with the most absolute serenity for an experience that we will carry forward with our heads held high, well aware of what our strengths are” .
WEEKLY WORK Thanks to the closing of the A1 season on Wednesday evening, the group faced only one session together on Friday and will do so further, next week, in the group work which will be even more extensive.
«Even if we will have to modulate, at the same time, the work of the first team and that of the under 17s in view of the Italian finals, taking one step at a time, and as I have said to many, if the club had achieved match three of the semi-finals there would have been further opportunities for experience for our prospects”, harangues the trainer.
MATCH PLAN Who, entering on the game plan front, comments: «They make a lot of show about pick ‘n roll situations, which is why we will have to find the right adaptations, looking for some different details to exploit and also trying to take advantage of those that , on paper, should be the greatest rotations compared to theirs.”
LOMBARDIAN WHISTLES A pair of Lombardy whistlers were designated to direct traffic for the match with the first referee being Simone Guerrera from Vigevano and the second being Jacopo Spinelli from Cantù.
