Stefano Comazzi, head coach of Novipiù Monferrato Basket, comments on the defeat at the Allianz Cloud in Milan against Urania: “There is certainly a bit of disappointment, I won’t deny that we were cradling the idea of grabbing ninth place, coming from a series of positive performances. Now the math doesn’t condemn us, but it’s right to be realistic and think that we should play for salvation in the black group.
We knew it wouldn’t be easy to come and play here, the performance isn’t totally negative, we lacked what we had managed to achieve in the last few games, that is, arriving more lucid than the opponent in the fourth quarter, today instead they were more lucid than we. 20-12 the partial of the fourth quarter is quite eloquent, they made the right choices and grabbed the tie with a basket from Hill a little outside the box that gave them energy.
Then in the end they were simply better than us. We must not lose faith in what we have done, after a more than good third quarter the situation has reversed in the last period.”
Urania Milan – Novipiù Monferrato Basket 75-67 (23-19, 21-20, 11-16, 20-12)
Urania Milan: Kyndahl Hill 21 (8/9, 0/1), Giddy Potts 13 (2/4, 2/7), Matteo Montano 12 (2/4, 2/5), Rei Pullazi 11 (2/3, 2/6), Giorgio Piunti 8 (0/0, 2/2), Andrea Amato 6 (0/1, 2/9), Michele Ebeling 4 (2/6, 0/6), Simone Valsecchi 0 (0/ 0, 0/0), Edoardo Pezzola 0 (0/0, 0/0), Andrea Marra 0 (0/0, 0/0), Matteo Cavallero 0 (0/0, 0/0)
Novipiù Monferrato Basket: Niccolo Martinoni 13 (4/8, 1/2), Kodi Justice 12 (4/7, 1/8), Gianmarco Leggio 12 (3/5, 2/4), Quinn Ellis 10 (3/10 , 0/1), Alvise Sarto 8 (1/2, 2/7), Matteo Formenti 6 (0/1, 2/2), Aaron Carver 4 (2/6, 0/0), Luca Valentini 2 (1 /1, 0/0), Lorenzo Mele 0 (0/0, 0/0), Karl Markus Poom 0 (0/0, 0/0), Matteo Ghirlanda 0 (0/0, 0/0)
