The Old Wild West finds two beautiful surprises in the egg: it beats Nardò, first place one step away

In the Easter egg in Lecce the Old Wild West finds two gifts and a surprise: another victory obtained with a crescendo ending against a proud team like Nardò; a mortgage or almost the first place in the green group with a lot of field factor in favor in the play-off grid given the incredible, unexpected, unforeseeable defeat of rival Cantù in Fabriano against an already relegated team. Nice gift from the Weest boys to coach Boniciolli who will turn 60 on Monday 18th (best wishes, coach).

In the sports hall, or rather in the Lecce gym, the Old Wild West starts off on the right foot with a capital Walters, but a slight injury to the pivot, which forces him to the bench, triggers Nardò’s reaction.

Team of the slums of the green group, okay, but hungry for salvation points and playing with blazes. Bam! The ex-devilish Amato and Ferguson, create a big part that sounds the red alarm in the Juventus home.

Cantù’s sensational slip to Fabriano, which the boys from the West learned about shortly before the game, is a great boost.

In short, Udine unexpectedly serves a kind of match-point for the first place. But if he manages to finish the first quarter ahead 23-21 he owes it only to a devilish long-distance Mussini.

The leaders have infinite changes (only Antonutti left in Friuli to rest), Nardò no, but she is hungry for points and a desire for business.

Ferguson continues to rage, he did very badly with Biella in the Cup four years ago at the Gsa di Lardo. In short, there is a game, and how if there is. Nardò defends, runs, shoots. Ebeling comes out and beats his fists on the bench: he does well. Passes for Amato and Ferguson, but the unusually soft defense of the bianconeri makes the ex-lightning Gsa La Torre look like a phenomenon.

The “health walks” in Trapani, Casale, Mantua had been something else. Definitely another thing. We need strong nerves, which Amato risks blowing up with yet another triple, and heads to the Old Wild West which also pulls with an excellent 67% from three. And above all we need the defense: the partial 55-48 for APU in the middle of the match. Forty-eight points conceded, an enormity we believe unprecedented this season.

It happens, basketball is like that. It also happens that the Apu stretches at the beginning of the third quarter, but the Apulians continue to respond gust after gust often with long shots. But they can do little against Walters’ size.

When he receives the ball Brandon is unstoppable and it is he who opens wide cracks in the business plans of the hosts, who does not have time to breathe a sigh of relief when the pivot has to go out for the third foul, because Udine finds the main road of the defense, Ferguson gags with players always fresh on the field, gives a good acceleration with three free juries that give the first double-digit advantage at the sunset of the fourth: 79-68.

Nothing is decided, but with an Esposito once again on the ball and a couple of snarls in defense the APU slowly begins to glimpse the banner of the finish line. Nardò doesn’t give up, he goes back below ten points, but it’s too late. Udine he does not lose his temper, he wins 100-91 and today he will return to Friuli with two nice gifts.