Fresh from three consecutive victories, Nutribullet Treviso Basket awaits a direct competitor for remaining in the top series such as Carpegna Prosciutto Pesaro on Saturday 30 March at 5pm at the Palaverde. Having passed with flying colors the triptych against Reggio Emilia and Cremona at home and away in Pistoia, TVB wants to maintain the winning streak in the survival play-off against Pesaro, a match that will open the 25th day of Serie A UnipolSai (live DAZN). In the first leg match, Carpegna Prosciutto prevailed 95-76 (Bamforth 23, Totè 22; Olisevicius 16, Paulicap 13+10 r).
With six days to go, Treviso Basket occupies 13th position in the standings on a par with Openjobmetis Varese (9 wins and 15 defeats), and the winning streak has allowed Frank Vitucci’s team to gain a four-point advantage over the red zone occupied by Pesaro itself and Brindisi (TVB’s next opponent), which is why a victory would be of fundamental importance to get closer to the seasonal goal. After the good performance offered in Pistoia in the characterful victory of 83-84, the watchword is continuity. Pesaro, on the other hand, after the good victory against Virtus Bologna in the penultimate round, arrives at the Palaverde fresh from the home defeat against Reggio Emilia 69-87 but ready to face a sporting battle to give another signal to the championship, albeit without Leonardo Totè, among the stars of the first leg match.
REFEREES: Attard, Bartoli, Valleriani.
MEDIA: DAZN (subscription).
EX AND PREVIOUS: only one ex for the occasion, Justin Robinson. ‘Scoop’ made his debut in the first leg match. The score between TVB and Pesaro sees Nutribullet ahead 5-3.
TICKET OFFICE: tickets for Saturday’s match are still available and can be purchased on the Treviso Basket website, on the vivaticket website and at vivaticket physical sales points. If there are still tickets, the Palaverde ticket offices will open on Saturday at 3.30pm.
NEXT MATCH AT PALAVERDE: cartel challenge on Sunday 14 April, because Olimpia Milano arrives in Treviso at 5pm. The presale opens on Tuesday 2 April at 10am.
This is how D’Angelo Harrison, guard of Nutribullet Treviso, presents the match on Holy Saturday: “We started to get into gear a little more in the last few matches, and we did it by playing like a real team, but we know that the most the next one is always important. It will be a battle against Pesaro, I am convinced that they will present themselves with great energy and will try to play at a high pace to put us in difficulty, but I am counting on the fact that we will be able to respond in the best way. We will have to try to limit the their play on the outside, avoiding conceding easy points on the counterattack and keeping the pace of the match on our side. There is the right adrenaline, the one that can never be missing before an important match, then we know that at our side we will have an audience that he will push us from start to finish, but it’s up to us first to convey the right energy to the public with what we do on the pitch.”
