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Raise your hand if you after the first quarter, finished with the Reba hosts 20 points ahead, still believed in a success for Usac, a team that reached this confrontation decimated by absences and that in the first 10 ‘had struggled a lot to keep the field while making several mistakes in the closing phase.
Problems finding the key to the problem, given that coach Porcelli had to field some players out of position for lack of ‘long’ it was said, and instead, slowly, the biancoblù, starting from the second fraction, have gnawed point by point to their opponents to overtake the Reba in a last quarter of the film library competition.
All the players were excellent and also the coach Titto Porcelli who was able to make a virtue of necessity, but a special mention goes to Vittorio Ferraresi, 30 points for him on the scoresheet, who played perhaps the best game of his career. infallible in his shots, the number 33 literally drove his opponents crazy and even with bad shots they managed to limit him.
The move that turned the game was the one that Porcelli made in the interval after the first fraction, bringing back Ferraresi from outside and throwing Ferrera and Costa in the center.
In fact, in the first fraction the hosts had an easy life going to the basket regularly while Usac lost many balls and was inaccurate under the basket.
In the second quarter the rivarolesi, with the new set-up, began the comeback. The defensive phase forced the Reba to force plays with bad results and the improvement under the basket brought Porcelli’s boys to -14 in the middle of the match. After the interval, two baskets by Ferraresi and a triple by Astegiano approach the guests and Longoni completes the work in the final allowing his team to start the last quarter down by seven.
And here we witnessed the masterpiece of the rivarolesi who, with Castello Astegiano and Ferraresi, reach 50 even until Longoni overtakes. The Reba no longer understands anything, Ferraresi rages well assisted by Sartore and Castello who pierce the retina from afar and dig the decisive furrow for the incredible but deserved victory of Usac.
A game from the album of memories because a few times a team had been seen starting with the handbrake on, undergoing the opponents, not being able to focus neither the defensive nor the offensive phase and then, as if by magic, not making mistakes anymore . Grim in defense, pungent in attack with shots from any area of the field. A show within a show. –