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A vanished comeback, the Apu eventually surrenders to Naples

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A basketball game never ends. Even if you score a measly 22 points and have minibasket percentages for half the match, you are facing perhaps the strongest team in the league and everyone thought that, down by 15 points at the end of the third quarter, the oxen had escaped from the stable.

The Old Wild West touches the feat in Naples, in the end it loses perhaps only because the referees do not see a sensational (not sensational, more, come on) tackle on Dominque Johnson launched to the basket at 1’58 “from the dine on 61- 58, because Foulland misses the (usual) free throws of the hook and Mayo, as he had done in the Cup, takes Naples by the hair, in the final at the mercy of the opponents, with a providential three-pointer from the corner.

It ends 71-63, a very liar score gained in the last seconds with the Apu desperately looking for quick points. Luckily the game in this useless second phase counted for little, otherwise losing would have left its mark.

And maybe Boniciolli would have hitchhiked, instead of by plane, all those players who missed free throws in the final. Ten 10 out of 17 of the team from the line of charity (as the unforgettable Franco Lauro called it).

Be careful, however, to archive this match only as a comeback, furious, worthy of a team of character led by an unreal Johnson in the last quarter (25 points at the end), missed.

It would be very wrong. The APU from Naples will have to return with a lesson in their backpack to learn by heart: mistakes are paid, even those at the beginning of the game. And this is what happened on Wednesday 28th.

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End of the first quarter: partial 13-2 immediately. Second quarter: nine points scored, the last three of which at the end with a triple invented by Amato. A famine that, if repeated, in the play-offs could cost dearly.

Fortunately, however, throughout the game the band of Boniciolli offered a very organized defense. Result: 9-9 the part of the second quarter and the race still standing.

Against a full team. Because Napoli defends, and strong, has a very long bench, indigestible players for Udine like the long two-dimensional Iannuzzi, and above all two Americans who move. It’s a lot.

Mayo talent and points, in the Cup, you will remember, took his hands by the hand. The former Trieste Parks, who if he can run becomes devastating.

So down by only nine points in the middle of the game despite the great famine and thanks to the excellent defense, the APU tried to change register.

Deangeli, Antonutti (35 years old and play-off captain), Amato again, in great recovery: important baskets to reopen the game (36-32) after 4 ‘. But it lasts a moment as the award-winning Parks-Mayo company accelerates again.

And the Sacripanti bunker closes with Foulland caged by Zerini and very confused as he hadn’t seen for some time.

Napoli with two terrifying counterattacks makes Boniciolli furious, who reminds the referees of something that is not trivial: his team has not yet taken a free throw after 27 minutes. Of course, if they defend without ever making a foul or, better still, without a foul whistled, how do you beat these?

End of the third quarter 50-45, it seems abundantly over also because every time Udine sees the rear lights of Sacripanti’s custom-built series, Mayo or Parks open the throttle.

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But the best news in the game lost by APU is that Boniciolli’s team never gives up even in the worst evenings. Triplone of Amato and Johnson, basket of Foulland: 61-56. Udine is there, determined despite the relativity of the result. Johnson on-fire, minus three.

Then the tackle worthy of the Superbol, the wrong free throws, the Mayo triple. Come on, it wasn’t a playoff match.

On Monday at Carnera Scafati arrives, the right opportunity to start again. –

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