Well. In the end here it is, the end of this much abhorred watch but which in the end puts points in the standings and which who knows if some teams really used it only to catch their breath or, even, to choose their position in the playoff grid and, consequently, the opponent. Trapani lost in Chiusi on Sunday, and it’s fitting that someone said this ironically they lost because they don’t want to face themselves in the playoffs. Alright: last day, someone will rest (Udine will go to Cantù with a reshuffled team, Fortitudo could keep Bolpin out as a precaution after he left injured against Turin), then after a week’s stop we will play for the Objective.
Quiet week, then, at home Fortitude: once the infinite debate on the transfer market is over, the one on winning or not winning is suspended, in the end talking only about basketball seems like soup without salt, but that’s right. Without needing a scoop at all costs, seeing that Fantinelli is slowly taking control of the team, that Ogden is improving after a small – human – missed pass, that Freeman is too ecstatic (see morgillization and a few too many fouls), which Morgillo himself and Conti are giving plenty of from the bench. In short, the classic speeches that are made after a victory.
The opponent
Trapani, Therefore. We already know everything: very high and never hidden ambitions, the absence of a plan B, perhaps purposely strong declarations to keep attention high (Teodosic, we remember him) and only 4 defeats in the season, including the one in the Cup against Fortitudo who it was taken well, on site: the coach was gone, revolution in the team and construction of Trapani 2.0 which lost 2 in the clock (7-2, after being 21-1 in regular play) risking elsewhere more often than not. 13+6 in the three outings of Amar Alibegovic, 8+4 for Stefano Gentile, in a group where the long Horton travels around the double double, where the other foreigner is the winger Notae, and where now there are so many of them ( Andrea Renzi, for example, is now the eleventh) so it is normal that the famous amalgam is not easy to pick up. Since that day in Rome, he has coached former assistant Virtus Diana. Curiosity: this away match hasn’t been played since April 1993, when in front of the whistles of Zancanella (this time innocent) the then Mangiaebevi team lost 81-71 in that playout which after that defeat seemed to be over. The next three races prove the opposite.
The program
The game is played on Sunday, 6pm, live from LNP Pass and Nettuno Bologna Uno.
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