The APU relies on super Cappelletti to go 2-0 with Chiusi

Tonight at Carnera game 2 of the play-offs with the Juventus play-off awarded as the best Italian player of the regular season. Coach Boniciolli warns: “They will do everything to beat us”

UDINE. Another step towards heaven. The promotion race of the Apu Old Wild West lives today, Tuesday 24 May, an imported hub, with the second semifinal match against the newly promoted Chiusi. It is played at Carnera at 20 and going 2-0 would give Antonutti and his teammates three match points for the final: the opportunity must be exploited at all costs to put the opponents with their backs to the wall.

WHICH APU

No new training at Juventus compared to game one. Esposito is still in the pits (he will try to recover for game three), the same eleven seen on Sunday 22 May will go to the scoresheet. Only 48 hours after the first challenge, the important thing is to recover your energy quickly.

From the APU we expect an improvement on some details: greater fluidity in attack and a few less lost balls, also to prevent Chiusi from developing the attack in transition which created some problems in the first quarter of race one. The defense, in any case, remains an absolute guarantee and lets you sleep peacefully.

WORD TO THE COACH

Boniciolli is a helmsman who knows the play-off sea perfectly. When you play such close matches in time, the absolute priority is to stay focused, always on the piece: «We know perfectly well that Chiusi, after Sunday’s defeat, will try in every way to beat us in game two. We have to keep the tension and attention very high. We come from a very complicated week of training, in which there were several defections. In race one we offered a great defensive performance, keeping an attacking team like Chiusi at 53 points and winning 48 rebounds. This is what allowed us to make our debut in the series with an important victory ».

MVP “HOODS”

After celebrating the award in Boniciolli as best coach of the season, on Monday 23 May the Apu Old Wild West joyfully greeted the coronation of Alessandro Cappelletti as the best Italian player in Serie A2 2021/2022. A well-deserved recognition, in some ways announced: no player from the Italian scene shifts the balance in this category like the Umbrian playmaker. Before the start of game 2, the National Basketball League will deliver the prize to both Boniciolli and Cappelletti, and it is easy to predict the ovation of Carnera for two absolute protagonists of this season full of victories and satisfactions.

HOW TO FOLLOW IT

There are still a few hundred tickets on sale for race two. They can be purchased on the Vivaticket website, in authorized outlets in the province of Udine or at the Carnera sports hall from 6pm. The game will be broadcast at 8pm on Udinese TV and live streaming on the National Basketball League website for LnpPass subscribers. Updates every quarter on the official Apu social networks.