Coach Barsotti’s men once again have the opportunity to close the series: Herons, the last effort with Del Fes is worth history
This afternoon, at 6pmMontecatini will try, for the second time in this series playoff finalto make history. Race 4 will still be at PalaDelMauro of Avellino, where the Of the Fez managed to snatch the first point of the series 48 hours ago, forcing the rossoblù people to postpone the celebration which still remains close, only one victory away. Whatever happens, this will be the last Sunday with official basketball games for the Herons and its fans: in fact, we will know the verdict on Wednesday at the latest. Then, until the last weekend of September, we will have to wait, dream and imagine, without championship matches and with our hearts pounding with emotion.
THE MAIN FACTORS
The series with Avellino has reached its end fourth challenge in just eight days, with the teams who have now learned to know each other, analyzing in depth the strengths, qualities and limitations of their respective games. A fact that could come into play tonight, even thinking about what usually happens, is that of fatigue and accumulated tirednesswith the bill likely to be presented at legs and in the head of all players. Also because this is the fiftieth match of the seasonif we consider the official path of the Herons, a monstrous number, which well summarizes how this championship is not a sprint for victory but rather a exhausting marathon in which significant physical and economic resources are needed to be able to successfully complete it.
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Coach’s boys Barsotti they have another chance to close the series in IrpiniaAvellino, on the other hand, will still have its back against the wall, forced to win if it wants to take the series to race-5 and keep alive the hopes of promotion to A2. At home, during the playoffs, the green and white team he never losttapping twice San Vendemian and as many there Pielle Livornobut it is good to keep in mind that throughout the season the Herons they have lost two games in a row only onceagainst Ruvo. There will be more two thousand people to push Vasl and his associates, with the match 3 tickets also valid for match 4 and free entry for the Under 25s. From Montecatini, however, the supporters will be fewer, also thanks to the length and heaviness of an away match certainly not easy to repeat in the space of two days. The Herons, however, have a granite certainty on which to leverage and to use to take on this fourth challenge which can be worth the A2: theidentity that this team has and the bond that was created between the players.
ONE STEP FROM HISTORY
The group is on a mission and has been since August, when he gathered at the PalaTerme for the first training session that inaugurated the season. Coach Barsotti wanted around him all players he had already worked with: men who knew what the rossoblù coach asked for on the pitch and who were willing to accept playing his basketball. He had already trained them allhe knew what they could give him and he knew what and how to ask him to keep a dream alive today has reawakened the ancient passion that characterizes this squarewith the hope that it can even become something more. There is something special about this group and this was understood, definitively, in Rome, when Natali and his companions raised the first real trophy of the Serie B season. An Italian Cup which, however, has not satisfied the appetite of this group, which so far has overcome enormous obstacles, reaching the point of playing for the playoff final on a board where, on paper, there were other battleships that had the greatest ambition and need to be at this meeting.
It is impossible, however, to label Fabo only with numbers and statistics, because these – however detailed they may be – do not tell what these guys have inside. There is a force that pushes them to do the feat and we saw it on many Sundays. Now the calendar puts them ahead of the last Sunday, away from home: connect the dots by finding an epic and heroic meaning to this season already unforgettable in itself would represent the culmination of a growing three-year period which is so similar to the flight of a heron that rises from the mud of a swamp to return, majestically, to noble skies.
