The Bianconeri are in Naples to return to winning ways (Sunday 7pm, DAZN)

Winning Generation Naples (13-14) vs. Dolomiti Energia Trentino (14-13)

28th matchday Serie A UnipolSai | PalaBarbuto, Naples

Sunday 21 April 2024 | 7.00 pm | DAZN

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Dolomiti Energia Trentino

Tomorrow, Sunday 21 April, at 7.00 pm, the Bianconeri will face Generazione Vincente Napoli at the PalaBarbuto in Naples in the 28th round of the regular season in Serie A UnipolSai (live DAZN). Important match for captain Forray and his teammates, who with a victory would get significantly closer to a playoff place: with three games to go, however, everything is still at stake, and the balance of the Serie A standings (in addition to the many remaining direct clashes) makes it complicated to venture into arithmetic calculations at the moment without granite certainties. Beating GeVi, however, would really mean getting closer to the finishing line, also in light of the 7-point success achieved in the first leg match (played in an unusual manner with the white shirt by the home team).

The challenge for the Trentino team will also and above all be that of returning to the away victory in the championship which has been missing since December. Coach Paolo Galbiati, in addition to the long-term players Udom and Grazulis, could be forced to do without Saliou Niang: the presence on the pitch tomorrow evening of the winger born in 2004 is in strong doubt due to a problem with his left foot complained in training.

The opponent: Generazione Vincente Napoli

GeVi Napoli arrives at the match against Trento on the strength of a fundamental home victory over Sassari which allowed the Campania team to remain in the running to earn a place in the top eight of the table: like Dolomiti Energia, also coach Igor Milicic’s Napoli he needs the two points tomorrow to be able to aspire to culminate, with access to the postseason, a season that has already gone down in the club’s history thanks to February’s triumph in the Italian Cup.

The MVP of that final in Turin against Olimpia Milano was Michal Sokolowski, who in the league is the player most used by coach Milicic (over 33 minutes per game) and averages 12.0 points and 5.3 rebounds. From him and the pair of wingers come the greatest perimeter threats for the defense of Dolomiti Energia Trentino, with Jacob Pullen (15.5 points and 2.4 assists on average) and Tyler Ennis (13.9 points and 6.9 assists per match) who are two of the absolute protagonists of this championship and who constitute the main offensive terminals for the white and blue team. Ennis, a player with a long NBA past behind him, scored 35 points in the first leg at the Arena. Another notable shooter and “total” player is Tomislav Zubčić, a Croatian winger who so far this season has averaged 13.9 points with 36.5% from three. Tariq Owens will play under the boards (10.9 points and 6.9 rebounds on average): the American center is one of the three GeVi players who last year were trained in Varese by coach Galbiati, together with the phenomenal scorer Markel Brown (12.9 points and 3.7 rebounds per game) and Giovanni De Nicolao. Completing the rotations is also Alessandro Lever, a center born in 1998 originally from Bolzano (4.9 points and 2.1 rebounds on average).

Previous

Three victories for L’Aquila, two for Napoli: this is the balance of the five official matches played between the two teams since 2021, the year of GeVi’s promotion to Serie A. Double success for the Bianconeri in 2021-22, then double success of Campania in the following year: and in this season in the first leg victory for Forray and his teammates in a pyrotechnic evening at the Il T daily Arena from 101-94 on the scoreboard.