The Nutribullet in great emergency in Piraeus Sokolowski is missing and Covid stops Sims

Coach Menetti wants to enter the Top 16: “A victory with the Lavrio would be important to turn in the championship”

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Without Sokolowski and now also without Henry Sims. The center, after Chillo and coach Menetti, the third victim of Covid (the fourth is the team manager Damiano Gava) this year in Treviso Basket. Their positivity was ascertained yesterday morning in the usual routine checks before departure: nothing serious, but it is clear that Sims will also be missing on Sunday with Milan. The fourth exam of modern Greek therefore begins in an unconvincing way: the first three, the two with Aek and then the one with the Lavrio, Treviso Basket passed them brilliantly, now another one arrives, as always the most difficult because it is the closest.

And also because the area totem will be missing, one of the first three centers of the Champions League, a player from whom TvB absolutely cannot ignore: tonight in the two areas Jones and Chillo will do everything possible, Akele and all the others will give a hand as much as possible . But this Champions can, indeed must equally become the lifeline of the season. Treviso Basket knows that if, despite the many problems, physical and otherwise, tonight he manages to make a bang in Piraeus, he will accomplish the best feat of his still short life, that is to enter the top 16, which represent the elite of a European Cup. And maybe for a while there will be no talk of the four consecutive streak defeats in the league. But to do this we need to repeat the success on the Lavrio of Garauno.

Will this Nutribullet be able to avoid competitions on Thursday night at Palaverde? If it is that of Bologna it is clear that the answer is no, but the positive side of playing often is that, between one game and another, there is not too much time left to cheer or to get depressed. And Max Menetti knows well that in these situations it is much easier to turn the page.

«In the league we are having difficulties, it is true, but in Europe the team plays with great awareness and desire. We always have this dream of entering the Top 16, we are close to obtaining great satisfaction in a competition where, we all noticed, the level is very high. And that could help us regain confidence and awareness in Serie A “

But what Nutribullet will it be? You are not very reliable, even more so without Sims. «We absolutely want to remain in contention: in September, with the Qualification Round at Palaverde, we began an almost exhilarating journey with great enthusiasm, given that we have gone so much from absolute freshmen to direct qualification. Tonight it will be a beautiful match in a large arena (the Palasport of Peace and Friendship holds 15,000, but tonight there will be a few hundred ed), the Greeks recover a couple of players who were not in the competition and we expect them a a little different than in that game, they will certainly be more aggressive and physical. But it is precisely the match we need, suffering, of course trying to take it home ». –