The center will be out of order for at least three games. D’Alessandro: “We will have to adapt, the Tuscans are strong under the basket”
PAVIA
Riso Scotti on Sunday goes to Piombino (ball at two hours 18) for the second first leg without the center Diego Corral, who will remain out for another two weeks due to the strain in the medial collateral of the right knee.
Coach Fabio Di Bella is working on solutions to remedy the lack of his pivot holder, but he knows that he can still count on Lorenzo “Lollo” D’Alessandro, who also last Sunday tried to defend Allegretti and Pilotti, the two Varese centers. and he did it well, as well as being an important offensive terminal.
“We were forced to make do and we collected two points and now under with Piombino to look for the first away win – explains the pivot winger from Bolzano – with Varese we were forced to make a virtue of necessity, given that Corral was injured at the last workout. The area was necessary to give long breaths to us, because between me, Sgobba and Torgano we had to work overtime and to limit the Varese centers. It was a choice that paid off, because by getting by a bit, we all managed to always put a piece of it. It was a good sign, as a team, which brought us together. It is clear that it cannot be our only weapon, because with Piombino we are working to propose an updated match plan ».
The Tuscans are a complete team, which can count on two former Pavesi, such as the long Edoardo Persico and the director Mattia Venucci. «We must remove the points of reference under the basket from Piombino’s team – adds D’Alessandro – they have many players with several centimeters and we will have to adapt. The area for 40 ‘is practically impossible, given the battery of shooters that is found and the danger from the bow that they can guarantee. The defense is important, because if we have concreteness behind it, we gain confidence and can attack with a different spirit, raise the pace, take advantage of the transition, because our outsiders have a lot of quality, as we also demonstrated last Sunday against Varese ».
D’Alessandro, confirming the good game, already appears in the first statistics of the league, in second place in the two-point percentage (71%) and with a block also in the top five of this special ranking. «Not only did I do well, but in six we went in double figures – underlines D’Alessandro – it is gratifying from the collective point of view, because it means that things went well. I would say it was our best game since we started the season, a sign that the work we have done is paying off. In Piombino we only have to improve the approach to the game, avoid going under in the first quarter, as happened also with Varese. We also need to be more careful because we play away. From an athletic point of view we are there, we proved it with Varese, that when they dropped we went up in intensity ». –