UDINE. He is ready to play another season as a protagonist with his Apu Old Wild West. You can understand it even more from that sentence at the end of the chat: “No one is able to guarantee promotions, not even a great coach like Bobby Knight, but we guarantee maximum commitment and the team has a higher awareness and better technical values than that which in the two finals were played last season. But then there are also the opponents, always remember that ».
Coach Boniciolli, today the team presents itself to Friuli Doc, tomorrow there is the debut in the Super Cup in Mantua: we are starting to get serious.
“And there is the feeling that we are continuing the work of a year ago, because the company of President Pedone has put down solid roots by creating a working protocol that is very useful for the inclusion of the new players they have found in the six veteran guides. perfect, captain Antonutti in the lead ».
Continuity is often synonymous with victory: do you agree?
«Yes, even if in contemporary basketball, due to the existing rules, it is hard to give continuity to a group. But with continuity the work is better. It is true, championships can also be won and lost for a shot, but I am proud to be part of this project to relaunch city basketball. And do you know who sent us a message of good wishes at the beginning of the retreat? Dominique Johnson, just to make it clear that the players are happy here ».
By the way: Lacey is standing in the pits. Worried?
“Absolutely not. The club immediately provided us with a token player for two months who was able to keep the quality of the training high and give us a hand in the Super Cup and at the beginning of the championship. He did it precisely to allow Lacey to get back in shape without forcing recovery times: we need him at the top in eight months and he is a player capable of shifting the balance even for how he entered on tiptoe, despite the curriculum, in the group.
After Charlie Smith, I have always considered Mike Pemberthy and Jerome Allen the strongest outsiders of the modern Apu, I would not be surprised if at the end of the season Trevor disrupts this trio. Now he will work hard: with our trainers those who are injured work more than others ».
And Walters, the other new US?
“If Lacey wants to regain the high-level player status she had two seasons ago in Europe, Walters wants to get it. He works hard, physically he is growing. He has understood where he has arrived, hangs from the lips of his compatriot, he is different from Foulland: in short, I can already say that we have a beautiful couple from the USA ».
Speaking of winning, Cappelletti told us that’s why he’s here …
«I have no doubts, he lost the final like us, he went very close to Serie A with Turin. He has in the Juri not a competitor in the role, but a teammate who immediately helped him to fit in better».
Does it help us decipher Esposito?
“Of course. He is a strong winger of great physicality and a lot of inexperience: he comes from another world like the American university championship. He’s asking to be guided, that’s what I’m here for. He is very ambitious ».
Ebeling?
«Technical, precise. Here, I will help him to be more … bad ».
Pellegrino and Nobile?
«Pellegrino will not be able to play, under pain of insults, below the level of the last month of last season. Nobile has to go from being a companion of the old ladies in via Poscolle to a snatcher. I envy him, however, and very much, his hair ».
You will find the public again …
«And I wonder: would I still train Udine if the fans were there to witness our six losses in a row last January? I dream of a Carnera who at the end of the matches, even of the lost ones, and there will be, will applaud the team that has seen everything given on the pitch. Then…
Thing?
«In Udine in three championships I made a promotion, the play-offs, two finals, a close promotion».
But yes coach they know. By the way, what keeps you from the binge of blue hits of the summer?
«The seven minutes between Tamberi’s gold and Jacobs’ gold at the Olympics: I hope that all these successes will serve to consolidate the sport, to make it enter the schools. In short: to build new successes ».
Vaccines moral duty and / or obligation?
«Let’s trust the science: did you tell us that the vaccine decreases the risk of death? Let’s do it. And who does not do it, and then wants to be treated, should not take away space for the vaccinated patients ». Game set and match. Good league coach. Good Apu championship. –
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