Edilnol, a play from Cantù to keep pace very high

The spaces and the advantages, creating the first and exploiting the second: these are the two key concepts of one of the first training sessions led by Andrea Zanchi. More than athletic-sports sessions, those of the new coach of Pallacanestro Biella seem like lessons: he talks at length with his boys, drawing tactical situations on the parquet and giving advice on how to get out of them with an open shot. Which can come out of anyone’s hands: “I always want you with the ball in front of your nose – he repeated to his own, even in one against zero – otherwise the defender understands that you are not dangerous”. Listening to him in religious silence was the whole new rossoblù team, including Tommaso Bianchi who then went on the sideline to do muscle strengthening exercises in the knee operated when the ball appeared and the rhythms got up. To keep them to the maximum, a player has been added to the squad who will remain in Biella in the first phase of preparation: Tommaso Lanzi, born in 2002, is a playmaker produced by the Cantù nursery, signed in Serie A by the Brianza since January 2020 and , last year, with three appearances for a total of four minutes on the pitch in the team relegated to the sprint. His help will also be invaluable in view of the first friendlies that will be next week, when the two Americans will also be available (barring unforeseen circumstances). Tj Cromer and Steven Davis are grappling with the bureaucracy, after completing the vaccination cycle: with the equivalent of the Green pass in hand, they will be able to apply for an entry visa to Italy, waiting for the ASL of Biella to convert the US pass in European format after their arrival. Simple, but not very easy if, as it seems, there is a few more obstacles for Cromer’s wife who, not expatriating for professional reasons, risks having to wait longer or having to settle for a tourist visa. These are the further aftermath that the era of the pandemic has left in the world of basketball. But on the parquet office issues should not enter: “If there is one thing that makes me angry and when I see you are not concentrated,” Andrea Zanchi told his team (actually with less euphemisms) after explaining a complicated exercise. To give him a hand at the Forum there was not only the deputy Andrea Niccolai, but also Marco Siragusa and Mirko Sirtori, the two new coaches of the Biella Next nursery.