Milan, April 17, 2021 – TheArmani AX Milano keeps the race in first place alive by folding 94-84 the Bologna power Segafredo in the luxury advance of the 28th round of Serie A basketball championship. An important signal of strength launched by the Milanese at Bayern Munich in view of the Euroleague playoffs that will begin next week and on which there is the unmistakable stamp Shavon Shields, author of a stratospheric test and able to close with a booty of 35 points – his new career high -, the son of a 6/7 from two and a sensational 7/9 from three. To give a hand to the former Trento, who after closing the first half at 22 points has again loaded the red and white attack on his shoulders unraveling a final that risked becoming complicated, he thought about it a Zach LeDay once again very solid and author of 21 points and 8 rebounds. On the other hand, after the scorching elimination from the Eurocup, a Juventus reaction was expected that came only in the second half: Djordjevic’s men, in the first half of the match, in fact slipped up to -17 losing 15 balls. and taking the jabs of Shields and his companions. The change of pace from Bologna, as mentioned, came only in the second half when he took the chair Milos Teodosic (15 points) which supported a Amar Alibegovic by 18 points and 6 rebounds e Marco Belinelli, animating the virtuoso comeback that stopped at -2 a few minutes from the end.
The race
Milan took the field with the right attitude and, taking advantage of Shields’ triple and the bianconeri’s premature turnovers, it immediately reached 11-2. Belinelli took care of keeping Virtus standing. Too little, however, to stop the former Trento and LeDay who pushed Milan up to first double-digit advantage over 17-5. A +12 became +9 at the sound of the first siren that did not stop Shields’ impetus, driver of the Milanese attack even in a second fraction of 12 personal points. His also the seal on the Milanese maximum advantage (53-36), relieved only at the end of Alibegovic’s triple (53-39 at the long interval). A flash that nevertheless gave the Bianconeri great confidence, able to return from the locker room with a renewed defensive attitude to even place an 11-3 for -6 (56-50) which could have become -3 in the event of a triple conversion by Weems . The head to head then continued thanks also to the inventions of a newfound Teodosic, capable of bringing his team up to -2 (83-81 with 3 ‘from the end). Seven consecutive points from Shields (for him also a game of four) soon pushed the Bianconeri back and put an end to their dreams of comeback.
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