The Mensans are close to VisMederi Costone and ultimately beat them 72-74. Now Race 3 and Race 4 at PalaEstra
VisMederi Costone Siena – Notes of Siena Mens Sana Basketball Siena 72-74 (22-19, 45-39, 61-62)
RIB: Brocco ne, Banchero 3, Tognazzi ne, Ceccarelli, Radchenko 3, Terrosi 7, Banchi 12, Zeneli 4, Piattelli ne, Ondo Mengue 8, Bruttini 14, Nasello 19. All.Tozzi
HEALTHY MENS: Brambilla, Pannini 11, Iozzi 4, Giorgi 7, Marrucci 7, Figus ne, Puccioni 6, Sabia 2, Cucini 2, Perinti ne, Prosek 8, Tognazzi 27. All.Betti
Referees: Cavasin from Rosignano and Baldini from Castelfiorentino
Notes: Bruttini out 5f
One match is not enough to change a season or a prediction. But many things are different after last night. The Costone remains the favouriteMens Sana has very high morale and we will see if this will have an effect on competitive trance.
La Note di Siena Mens Sana took the satisfaction of removing theunbeaten season del Costone at PalaOrlandi which is something to see Mister Magrini who pushed the Siena Fc to maintain the unbeaten record, this is an aspect that counts for a lot in a locker room.
It certainly happened due to the resilience of the green and whites who fielded a team yesterday Tognazzi in the “monster” version (27p, 2/6 from 2, 6/9 from 3, 5/5 in the free throws, 6rd, 5 fouls conceded and 1 blocked shot), never so bad for a couple of months now. Author of 8 of the first 10p of the Note di Siena, he was targeted by the opposing defense and nevertheless continued to rage from distance. Heroic.
It also happened because the Costone almost never inserted the sixth gear and because the champion Hake it was half a step below its threshold. Counterattacks suffered are rare. Credit to the opponents certainly, but also the fault of one PalaOrlandia highly coveted site for the yellow-greens but in which, in the last two quarters, one could breathe gaseous mixture made largely from water. Difficult to breathe in the stands and therefore let alone on the pitch between teams withchronological age different.
This morning the words of coach Baroni of the San Vincenzo Basketball after Race 2. “The arms – he said – had become heavier and the shots were not arriving”. Which isn’t even valid for last night: Costone pulled with averages that usually lead to winning: 22 of 43 from 2 (51%), 6 of 24 from 3 (25%).
And then it is impossible to think, without further confirmation, that a team that from April 28 played two games she may be tired. Unless it’s the head’s fault, performance anxiety etc. It is definitely a hypothesis that we discard, therefore…
So we’re at Palaestra… It could immediately have been the “home of the Sienese” and now that it has been baptized as “home of the enemy” will probably be a conglomeration of malebolge. Call me Jena. Coach Tozzi which with a little make-up could be a “separated at birth” of Jena Plisskenthe character played by Kurt Russell in “1997: Escape from New York” now he will have to have a similar experience. We would have written it especially if we had already been 2-0, now the Costone is awaited by aexperience of maturity and wickedness which in any case is contained in his DNA.
The appointment of Race 3 It’s for next Sunday at 6pm. Tickets available to those who want them at the ticket offices for 10 euros and free placement, now that the Mens Sana Basketball decided not to “take revenge” and limit the tickets for the Costone fans. Race 4it will be three days later, again at PalaEstra, Wednesday 22 Mayafter dinner.
It is easy that these two races are enough to determine the winner. We think that there will not be a return to Montarioso on Sunday 26th for the possible Race 5 unless Mens Sana again shows off biorhythms that make it beautiful at night in Game 4. Yesterday was a memorable evening for Costone who, given the time, was unable to obtain the maximum from the “prescription of minors” and, fearing the concomitance of Atalanta-Juventusin clear, final of Italian Cuppushed the yellow-green secretariat to reopen old agendas and call together old glories and old friends from the Oratory.
In short about the race…
The best. Said of Vittorio Tognazziwe add all the green and white boys with mentions for Captain Pannini, useful and decisive especially when needed; For Marrucci (6 fouls conceded, 10 rebounds) whose physicality makes every strategy easy coach Betti; For Giorgi who, when called upon, was ready to get into rhythm and make changes in what was above all one battle of guards; For Puccioni who managed to be very useful to the team (4/4 free throws, 4 fouls taken, 2nd, 2nd) despite the gods of circle and retina they are angry with him (1/11). If he had been a Costonian And there was always Donvi would take him to bless your elbow after a colossal discussion if it had not been appropriate to bless the wrist instead. And lastly Prosekanother hero, always with sweaty hands yesterday, evidence of one feverish state not passed and without weapons – unless Don’t cough on him – with the rocky Ondo Mengue.
On the other bank, the captain, Ugly, who perhaps sinned by cunning in front of a very capable duo in grey, but who gave points and solutions to Costone when he needed them most. Naturally Hake that his wind still grazed him and whose movements the Mensan defense seems to have equipped itself with some right antibodies. Personally, we like it Radchenkoplayer, to understand each other with the Mensan audience, at Zanassi, but Costoni’s bench doesn’t give him as much playing time as Terrosi and Banchi. Finally it is in the first quarter Ondo Mengue which has continually put the Costone forward again.
The match. It wasn’t good, in fact maybe it was downright bad. With the Costone which had the distinction of collecting the loose balls. With long and very long periods in which he didn’t score. Coach Betti he comes out a winner because his team turned out to be winners bass quintets. He starts with Sabia together with Pannini, Tognazzi, Marrucci and Iozzi against Banchi, Banchero, Terrosi, Nasello and Ondo Mengue, then immediately lowers the average height as Costone moves to +7: 14-7 with 4’47” to play .
The race finale. The third quarter where the Note di Siena had touched a illusory +6, however, it ends with the guests ahead: 61-62. Back on the parquet there Notes from Siena scores immediately, but in total it takes 8 minutes to arrive with Costone in the lead: 68-67 with 2 minutes to go. At this point Tognazzi he mocks Ondo Mengue’s marking and throws it back from three, then Puccioni, him himself, remains infallible from the bezel. Mens Sana at 72, Earthy he replies with a bomb and a free throw: 72-all. Marrucci, shortly before knocked down by a finger in the eye, finds the basket from mid-range with 3 seconds left to go. Time out, throw-in, ball still burning a Earthy, a shot on the rim that could have been worth overtaking. Radchenko attempts the offensive rebound, but the siren had already sounded and, overwhelmingly, the joy of all Mensanians of every color and rank.
For once this season the Costoni audience has to suffer. But there are 72 hours left until the possible – and “certain” ones? – sold.
