8:00 pm Welcome friends of Pianetabasket to the live text of match 3 of the Legabasket championship quarter-finals between Bertram Derthona Tortona and Virtus Segafredo Bologna. Tap-off in a few minutes!
8.10pm Segafredo is currently leading 2-0 in the series after winning game 2 by 83 to 77. Bertram absolutely must win tonight to avoid having to end their season.
8.20pm Tortona’s last victory against Bologna took place at home, on 7 January 2023 with the result of 89-81, since then nine consecutive victories for the Bologna team between friendly walls and away.
8.30pm Absent for Virtus is Lundberg due to a blow to his left knee and Dobric due to problems with his left ankle, while Severini is injured for Derthona as well as Thomas not called up.
0-0 1′ quintet on the pitch: Segafredo: Hackett, Cordiner, Belinelli, Shengelia and Dunston, while the five for Bertram are Ross, Strautins, Obasohan, Weems, Kamagate.
0-0 1′ ball two raised, game 3 begins!
6-0 1′ Strutins with three opens the match, Virtus misses, Weems with three. Beltram started off strong
9-2 2′ Hackett enters and scores, Segafredo unlocks but Weems is surgical from three
11-4 3′ Obasohan from below, Hackett also scores, a little bit so far
11-7 5′ Belinelli suffers a foul and goes to the line scoring three free throws, Hackett recovers the ball, Cordiner from underneath, Virtus returns to -2
13-9 6′ Kamagate recovers a rebound in attack and goes to dunk, stopping Bologna’s 7-0 run, a very physical game
15-9 7′ Ross completes a three-point play, but picks up a technical foul along with his marker Cordiner who already has two fouls
16-11 8′ Hackett takes the foul and scores two free throws, but Tortona is still ahead with Dowe’s triple
22-11 8′ Even after a timeout, Virtus attacked badly, Baldasso always scored the maximum advantage from three on the counterattack
25-12 9′ Polonara scores a free throw but Tortona attacks with patience and spins the ball very well and Weems from 3 punishes once again from the corner
27-13 9′ Virtus has free throws but continues to miss them this time with Zizic 1/2, Candi penetrates and scores the home team again.
27-15 9′ Polonara makes it 2/2, Baldasso scores only the scoreboard from midfield
End of the first quarter Derthona Tortona 27 Virtus Bologna 15
29-17 11′ Radosevic surprises Shengelia and scores from underneath, Abass with a mid-range basket
29-19 12′ nervous match for Virtus, Tortona misses Hackett cost to cost, minute De Raffaele
31-20 13′ Weems after an attacking rebound, scores the two free throws, Virtus tries to do the same with Shengelia but misses another free throw
32 – 22 14′ another lap to the line for Kamagate but 1/2, Zizic scores from below and blocks the same French center
34-24 15′ Obasohan scores two on the counterattack, Abass imitates him in the penetration with the foul but without scoring the free throw
36-27 16′ Tortona attacks very well, Strautins with a penetration and a very high floater to the basket, Pajola finds the opening for two points but it’s not enough for now
36-30 17′ Baldasso on the line, Virtus finds the triple with Belinelli
39-30 17′ Obasohan recovers the ball and runs on the counterattack with the dunk, timeout virtus
39-34 18′ Abass is hot, great penetration to the basket, Tortona loses the ball Zizic scores -5 Timout Derthona
41-34 19′ after two minutes without scoring, Chris Dowe makes a nice mid-range basket, VIrtus throws away many open shots
43-34 20′ Virtus doesn’t score, Dowe instead pulls Tortona out of trouble at the end of the first half
End of the first half Derthona Tortona 43 Virtus Bologna 34
43-36 21′ Shengelia started with the desire to recover, lap 2/2
43-40 22′ Mickey takes two free throws, scores the first but misses the second but Abass on the offensive rebound makes it 2+1 and 6-0 by partial -3
43-42 23′ Virtus now scares the Palaferraris, great defenses and Shengelia scores -1 from underneath (partial 8-0) Tortona timeout
48-44 24′ Tortona with two baskets crushes the crisis by spinning the ball very quickly Mickey from below but Ross recovers the ball scores two free throws and makes Shengelia commit the third foul
53-44 25′ Mickey makes two very heavy errors, Tortona with Baldasso returns the triple with a 9 point advantage, Bologna minutes
55-46 26′ Kamagate scores from underneath, Cordiner immediately scores
55-51 27′ Cordiner finally scores the second triple of the match (2/16), Polonara catches and fouls on the rebound and with the bonus makes 2/2 on the line -4
58-52 28′ Hackett on the line but only one to score -3, Radosevic from three points explodes the palaferraris
60-54 30′ before Zizic’s dunk, many too many errors on both sides, Baldasso scores from below with a great play of feints
End of third quarter Derthona Tortona 60 Virtus Bologna 54
62-56 31′ Zizic takes position and scores from below, Kamagate does the same
65-56 33′ Two minutes without baskets, Bologna almost always misses the last metre, Strautins scores from three and a new Virtus timeout
