The men’s Serie A basketball championship is preparing for the Easter round, which, excluding the postponed Virtus Segafredo Bologna – Estra Pistoia on Monday, will be played in full on tomorrow 30 March. Givova Scafati will be busy at 7.30 pm on the parquet of “Il T Quotidiano Arena”, home to the home matches of Dolomiti Energia Trentino, currently sixth in the championship, with 24 points, two more than the Salerno players, who have the obligation morale to redeem the recent internal slip at the hands of the last of the class and thus try to put a direct competitor behind us for the last playoff qualifying places, also in light of the success achieved in the first leg with reversed fields. Coach Boniciolli and his staff will be able to use the entire squad for this treacherous trip, who have worked hard in the various weekly training sessions with the aim of putting the last colorless performance behind them as soon as possible.
THE OPPONENT Dolomiti Energia Trentino has been coached since the beginning of the season by coach Paolo Galbiati, coach of the Italian Under 20 national team, who is doing excellent things on the Juventus bench, also thanks to a team certainly capable of achieving a playoff position at the end of the season regular season, equipped with multiple stars, starting with the Lithuanian power forward Grazulis (14.3 points and 4.7 rebounds on average), the American point guard Baldwin (13.3 points and 4.3 assists on average), of guard Mooney (12.9 points and 4.4 assists on average), teammate Hubb (12 points and 5.8 assists on average), small forward Alviti (10.5 points on average) and center Biligha (10 points average). To these must be added the expert point guard Forray (in his thirteenth consecutive season in the black and white jersey), the small forward Udom and the center Cooke (4.8 rebounds on average), as well as the young Conti (guard) and Niang (wing) .
THE STATEMENTS Assistant coach Massimo Costagliola Di Fiore: «The team is aware of not having given a good performance last Sunday and is eager to redeem itself. Winning in Trento would mean sealing the survival issue and opening up a playoff sprint in the final days. To do this we will need to put our anger to rest by playing with great heart, application in defense but at the same time rationality in attack. We will need to control the pace and find balance in the various advantageous solutions, stop their very effective offensive transition and win the rebounding duel where they express great athleticism and physicality. Hubb, Baldwin and Mooney are three very complementary and extremely talented guards, breaking their axis with Grazulis and the pair of long rollers will be another key match.”
