Bologna, 17 May 2022 – Historical evening for the Bertram Tortona that within the friendly walls of PalaFerraris has won the first victory in the playoffs in its history defeating Umana Reyer Venezia 70-58 and bringing the playoff series to 1-1 after the misstep in race 1. A success propitiated by the performance to be framed by Jamarr Sanders who sent 20 points to the scoresheet. Just the US winger led the Piedmontese attack to give the first mini-tear in a second quarter of great difficulty for Venice (30-25 at the long interval) and then in the third he completed the work by pushing his team up to +15. A furrow that Venice has no longer been able to fill,
Milan and Virtus win again
Instead, they lead 2-0 in their respective seriesinstead, the Virtus Segafredo Bologna and theArmani AX Milan. The Bolognese at the Segafredo Arena overcame with far fewer worries than in Game 1 and a final 70-51. Without Shengelia – out 10 days – and with Teodosic still at rest, Virtus relied on the collective (Amar Alibegovic top scorer with 10 points) and on a defense that in the second half conceded only 26 points to Pesaro who collected in the last part of the match a fatal partial of 39-26. All very simple also for Olimpia Milano which at the Forum overwhelmed the Unahotels Reggio Emilia 91-65 in the sign of Sergio Rodriguez (14 points) e Gigi Datome (16 points). Precisely this tandem inspired the decisive Milanese defeat that arrived in the first quarter, closed at 27-14. Reggio, despite the 19 points of the former Cinciarini of the evening, was in fact no longer able to replicate and in the second half he also touched the 30 lengths of delay.
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