CREMONA – The beautiful home victory against Venezia is still in the eyes, but the next away match is in the sights. The Easter match, the one that Vanoli will face tomorrow in Casale Monferrato against Tortona. Coach Demis Cavina is already focused on the opponent, a team that will give the blue and white a hard time.
«It will be another stimulating challenge at the end of the season» attacks the coach. «We have more than one ahead of us, but our policy is to look at one at a time and therefore now we are focused on the match with the Piedmontese team. A match that we know perfectly well will be tough. They have huge ambitions and they have them rightly. It will also be very heartfelt for me as I return to where I worked for three years. Three truly fantastic seasons of which I have wonderful memories. We want to give continuity to last Sunday’s victory, above all trying to repeat the performance we did, also from an emotional point of view. Finally, against Venezia, what didn’t really want to happen until the week before succeeded. I always said we didn’t have much left.
Sometimes we even missed just one basket. But what it would have taken to try to win in the sprint. What finally arrived on Sunday also thanks to an emotionally super match. Tomorrow we will have to pay attention to at least a couple of fundamental aspects. Tortona is a very deep and organized team and we must be ready because the end of the season forces us to be concentrated if we want to reach our goal. To do this, we need to move on from some other important victories.”
But while waiting for further confirmation, we are preparing on the parquet in a week that in some ways has been ‘lighter’ than the previous ones. «It was in the sense that we took some monkeys off our shoulders» she laughs. «Because victory helps. We didn’t lack performance, I’ve explained this several times, but the result. Negative note, Adrian is still suffering. The rest of the group worked well from an athletic point of view and did an excellent job from an intensity point of view. We look for tactical cohesion and try to raise the pace compared to our habits. Let’s try to take the lead straight away and increase the number of possessions, the game will take place there. Corey Davis argued a bit with the rim against Venezia and especially unlike what we saw in Treviso, but he made the play of the match with a rebound that opened up the fundamental baskets of the final. We said that we expected a particular energy contribution from him and he is providing exactly this. We are in a period of the year in which the team has already been working together for 8 months, but he is doing everything he can to fit in as best he can and is truly transmitting an exceptional energy.
How many points are left to salvation? No arithmetic needs to be done until the end of the season. There are too many variables and matches. We think about ourselves and trying to win the matches, then we’ll see.”
