Weems and Belinelli
From 6.15pm Virtus Segafredo Bologna takes the field in Casale to face the Bertram Derthona. At the penultimate match of the LBA regular season, both teams still have a lot to play for. The VBlacks are chasing two points to maintain the primacy won last weekend which would mean home court advantage in the playoffs. On the other hand, Tortona currently occupies theeighth place, the last for the post-season: coach Walter De Raffaele’s team is +2 from GeVi Napoli, with whom they have direct clashes in their favor. The Campanians have one last chance today in Reggio Emilia to catch up with Bertram. In this case, everything would then be decided on the last day with Napoli in Scafati and Tortona in Treviso.
Virtus Bologna, Banchi’s choices. On the other side Kyle Weems. Coach Luca Banchi brought all fourteen players under contract to Tortona. The turnover will most likely leave Rihards Lomazs on the bench, while Ognjen Dobric and Jordan Mickey are on the ballot. Meanwhile, the VNere will find Kyle Weems again: “Among today’s well-known faces, Weems moves nostalgic Virtussian hearts, who spent a four-year period here already canonized as a historical cycle. Scudetto, Eurocup, entry into the Euroleague, Kyle was among the most loved protagonists of that climb, closed in ’23 by a last season in chiaroscuro. Taken from Piedmont to give experience, he now scores 10.9 points per game, with 47% from twos, 32 from threes, 80 from free throws, figures mainly in decline on the scoreboard. total of his Italian career. Yet, having now reached 34 years of age, he has the class, pride and skill to mark individual matches and make him an opponent to be respected and watched closely”, writes Walter Fuochi in La Repubblica.
