Suffering, sweaty, but deserved. The playoff semi-final is a reality for Ferrara Basket, at the end of a very complicated series against Gardonese, brought home by the biancazzurri with a few too many worries, especially in the last act on Wednesday evening at the Bondi Arena. Ahead 64-40 at 25′, and with inertia on their side, Ferrara suffered a 35-14 partial in the remaining fifteen minutes, hit (but not sunk) by a monstrous Davico, who scored more than half the points at the siren of guests. Luckily for the Este team, the Argentinian’s last shot went off the rim: “We must congratulate Gardonese, a team trained well by my colleague Perucchetti, and this player who has grown as the matches have gone by – the words of the Biancazzurri coach Benedetto -, but compliments must also be paid to my boys, despite some errors in managing the advantage especially in the last quarter, where we dribbled too much instead of passing the ball to each other, these are the playoffs, we collect what is right to collect, we take it this passage of the round that I didn’t even imagine when I arrived: the choice in game 3 was to run and raise the score as much as possible.
We wanted to play at a high pace, Ballabio interpreted the game very well, while Romondia and Guerra should have made the ball run more: we were still coming off a couple of difficult days, in which we had chased each other a little so we could all train together. The strength of this team is that everyone is called into action, demonstrating that the squad is long and we hope it can also be a key in the series against Fidenza.”
PLAYOFF SEMI-FINAL, THE OFFICIAL DATES. The club announced the dates of the semi-final series with Fidenza yesterday afternoon: it starts on Sunday at 6pm at the Pala Pratizzoli, while game 2 is set for Thursday 23 May at 8.45pm at the Bondi Arena. In the case of match 3 we will move again to Fidenza, on Sunday 26th at 6pm. The presale for match 2 will be active on Monday 20th May from 5.30pm to 7.30pm, Tuesday 21st May from 5.30pm to 7.30pm and Wednesday 22nd May from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. Ferrara Basket also wanted to thank Vis 2008 “for the willingness shown to collaborate regarding the commitments of the player Assane Sankaré, who will be available for game 1 on Sunday 19 May in Fidenza before leaving for the national Under 17 Eccellenza finals scheduled from Monday 20 May in Agropoli (Salerno)”.
Jacopo Cavallini
