Heavy passive in the home of Segrafredo, the bianconeri fan assist a go go. On Sunday in the derby at Taliercio with Reyer, redemption must be found immediately
BOLOGNA. A blow. Greetings, hopefully, to bring back to earth a team to applaud yes for what has been done between March and the first weeks of April but which cannot be immune from fair criticism.
The heavy deficit remedied by De ‘Longhi, on an anonymous spring Wednesday, at the hands of Segafredo is perhaps explained by the exceptional efforts made to hoist the team in sixth place.
Or with a period of psychological bending first of all, already witnessed on Sunday by the amnesia against the elementary perimeter game of Varese, repeated and extended against the Black Vu. Whether it’s pure coincidence or not, TvB’s second consecutive defeat occurs in a downturn for Michal Sokolowski.
That the Pole is not going through a happy period is Pulcinella’s secret and it is therefore logical that without his balancer the Biancoceleste team is in crisis. Because if Varese is objectively modest and has clear points of reference, against a Segafredo without Markovic and Tessitori but terribly eager to cancel the recent scorching defeats in the championship and Eurocup, serious mistakes cannot be made from the first minute of the match.
Instead, De ‘Longhi’s mistake is precisely this, allowing the Bianconeri to play to the best of their ability right away. It is embarrassing to observe Julyan Gamble, ridiculed just a week ago on the same parquet by former TVB John Brown, taking advantage of the defensive flaws of the long opponents who too slowly recover on the elementary pick’n’roll virtussini giving him one close basket after another. And the music does not change even when Djordjevic deploys the more dynamic Hunter who continues the basketball slaughter well primed by Pajola.
It is no coincidence that Virtus eventually equalized the company’s record of assists, 30 out of a total of 39 baskets scored in action: it is only the consequence of a good game of ball movement facilitated by a soft, distracted, distracted Biancoceleste rearguard.
The gap widens, minute by minute, the only timid reaction is a 6-0 host favored by Chillo and Imbrò in the second quarter, a flame for an illusory -10 (33-23).
The signal that TvB is not there is absolutely given by coach Menetti in the second half when with 13 ‘still on the clock and at 73-42 he recalls Logan and makes the young Piccin sit on the gearbox cube, who among other things, even though he does something wrong, does not mind in the immense garbage time to follow.
In the end, the midweek trip seems to be a re-proposal of the match of last October 4 in Milan, with the difference that if at the time the debacle was also justifiable for the presence of the mysterious object Cheese and the waning Carroll, this time in the De ‘Longhi house. such excuses can be invoked. Even the Black Vu eventually makes the academy, spares Teodosic and sends Deri and Nikolic, the last of the rotations, on the field, just for competitive duty and to reach the fortieth anniversary while Treviso closes with a little honorable -29.
The Sunday derby at Taliercio is looming, in the lagoon land at De ‘Longhi will need a very different performance before the long pre playoff break – the start of the post season has been postponed for a few days.
Having reached the apex of its young history in Serie A, the biancoceleste club remains the card of pride not to transform the last matches of the 2020/21 season into what the former virtussian patron Claudio Sabatini would define as “food and wine tours”. The efforts made by consortium members and sponsors in such a difficult period deserve an adequate response on the ground. –