Umana Chiusi-Luiss Roma will be played on Wednesday 22 May, the recovery of the 1st day of the Salvation phase of Serie A2 Old Wild West. The teams classified in 9th-10th-11th place in their respective groups (Green and Red) at the end of the regular season (32 matches) participate in this phase. There are home and away matches (10 games in total, each team faces all the others); the points obtained in this phase are added to the total points obtained in the regular season, with a single ranking. At the end of the Salvation phase, the top two classified will remain in Serie A2; the four teams classified from 3rd to 6th place will be relegated to the National Serie B.
HUMAN CLOSED – LUISS ROME
Where: PalaPania, Chiusi (Si)
When: Wednesday 22 May, 8.30pm
Referees: Rudellat, Yang Yao, Giunta
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Giovanni Bassi (head coach) – “Like us, Luiss Roma also come to this match after an ugly and daring defeat and therefore they will be very angry. For them, these two matches are an opportunity to try to get back into the running and therefore I expect a very determined and very physical team. Plus, they have very talented and very experienced players. Once again, a delicate match. Whichever of the two is good at managing the pace better, I think will be able to take the match on its tracks. As far as we’re concerned, we’ll have to play a different game on the aspects that don’t fit in the scoreboards. Pay attention to loose balls, dirty rebounds, knowing how to choose your free partner well. All this doesn’t work on the scoresheets, but these are the things that condemned us against Agrigento.”
Notes – The decision on which foreigner to leave out of the squad will only be made during the final match on Wednesday morning. Media – Live streaming on LNP Pass.
HERE LUISS ROME
Andrea Paccariè (coach) – “For us now we only play for mathematics, after the defeat at the last basket on Sunday against Latina. We provided a truly colorless performance, with too soft an approach, and tomorrow (Wednesday, ed.) we face Chiusi. I hope to see my boys’ pride wounded, that they give a better performance than the one offered against Pontini: also because we want to demonstrate until the end that we deserve this category. We hope to have put aside the errors of superficiality and the lack of attention shown against Latina. The Tuscans are without a doubt the best team in recent months, at the moment they have a lot of energy and resources for this final rush. We want to finish in a way that lives up to what we did this year.”
Notes – Full roster. Media – Live streaming on LNP Pass. Real-time updates of the match will be provided on the Instagram channel @luissbasketball.
