It is an Apu that speaks Friulian: after Mian he signed Cusin

UDINE. The Apu on the incoming market continues to speak Friulian. After the hiring of Fabio Mian, here is Marco Cusin from the Pordenone center, who has signed a one-year contract. “Big Cuso” has just returned from a season in Cantù and goes to form the pair of longs in the painting together with Francesco Pellegrino.

THE CARREER

Marco Cusin was born in Pordenone on February 28, 1985 and grew up in the youth teams of Torre Pordenone, 3S Cordenons and Pallacanestro Trieste, the club with which he made his debut in Serie A in the 2002/03 season. Following experiences with Biella, Ferrara, Fabriano, Cremona, Pesaro, Cantù, Sassari, still Cremona, Avellino, Milan, Turin, Caserta, Fortitudo Bologna and Cantù again.

In the last season, with the Brianza team uniform, he “billed” 4 points and 5 rebounds per game, playing an average of 15 minutes. In his palmares there are a scudetto with Olimpia Milano in 2017/18 and three Italian super cups with Cantù (2012), Sassari (2014) and Milan (2017). In his career he wore the blue of the senior national team 115 times, with 472 points on the scoresheet between 2009 and 2017.

The pivot from Pordenone returns to Friuli after winning the “ballot” with Antonio Iannuzzi, in Mantua and Naples in the last two seasons. Of the six players officially on the Apu Old Wild West ’22 / ’23 roster, four are from Friuli: Michele Antonutti, Vittorio Nobile, Fabio Mian and Marco Cusin.

NEGOTIATIONS

Having settled the lengths department with the Pellegrino-Cusin couple and with the negotiation for Markis McDuffie on standby, the Udine management is now concentrating on the external department. The starting point guard will be American (evaluations underway on Jordan Crawford, born in 1990 and a great three-man shooter: last year he finished with 41.5% in the Turkish Serie A), but it is likely that the Italian fleet will be closed first.

Federico Zampini, born in 1999 in the last three seasons with Kleb Ferrara in retreat in Rome with the Under 23 National Team, is also liked as second play. Cento is also on his trail. Other names in the notebook are those of the Italian-Argentine guard-winger Bernardo Musso, born in 1986, former Snaidero, now in goodbye with Chiusi and that of the guard born in 1997 Luca Cesana, last year captain of Assigeco Piacenza.

The latter is a triple specialist, he closed the regular season 2021/22 with an excellent 51.5% average. On the player, however, there is a question linked to the physical condition, given that he missed the last two months of the championship due to injury.