The Old Wild West wins at the last breath: the dress rehearsal against Verona lasts

He suffers, Boniciolli’s team stretches. Then the final point to point rewards Udine. But with the Scala family it is only the first act

UDINE. Dress rehearsal of an upcoming final to move up to the A1 series? Perhaps, likely, very likely, the first two rounds of the post-season will tell. Meanwhile, the Old Wild West beat Verona in the photo finish in the last championship match before the play-offs. It ends 73-68.

Tonight, when the matches of the last day of the clock phase are completed, he will meet the opponent of the first round (Sunday 8 at Carnera), but he knows that to beat Tezenis again I will have to play great.

It starts with Esposito and Italian in the quintet for Udine, playing “ciapa no”, after all the result does not count for the classification but for the future and perhaps the head suffers.

But one thing is immediately clear: when it will be, and if it will be, in the final, the guys from the West will have a strong, mangy, square team in front of them, and in the meantime it will be important to force them to race.

The first quarter confirms this, when the Apu manages to run it makes the difference. Carnera too – the few gaps in the stands will be filled from next week but the idea of ​​inviting school groups is nice – studies. First quarter (20-17) then Apu perhaps falls into the only real flaw it has: entrusting everything to a three-point shot.

Ramagli’s Tezenis, an ace on the bench in the play-offs like his colleague Boniciolli, obviously “baptizes” the Italian (0 out of 5 from three), blocks the others and builds his defense on that.

The second ugly quarter of the APU will thus have to be analyzed carefully. Caged team, slave of triples that do not arrive (3 out of 14 after 20 ‘) and Verona so exalted in attack with Johnson, that Udine does not have men suitable to mark (Ebeling would be but the “dress rehearsal” was not edifying … ) and Anderson deadly from three, the old Rosselli orchestra. Half the game: Udine under 34-28 for Verona.

Then the APU, as a real team, brings the dispute on its terrain: intensity, defense, speed, talent. Cappelletti, Lacey, Mussini, all at a hundred per hour, and so Verona understands “how much other people’s bread tastes of salt”.

The third quarter of Udine Ramagli will have to analyze it well because Boniciolli’s car returns to run strong and ends 53-45 with a super triple again by Mussini all on the wings of a great defense. The Old Wild West car accelerates again.

Esposito and Walters (how good, now he protests the right then he is silent) make themselves heard, even the Italian scores from three, Verona does not give up but struggles (64-54) with 5 ‘from the end. Casarin, a talented blue player (crazy to have his basket from the corner) is not convincing as a playmaker precisely in the role that Udine abounds, with Mussini on-fire in the final and Giuri at rest. Instead, the APU from Verona pays in the small forward sector.

Over? Not at all, Udine stops and Verona, just to reiterate that in a month or so it will be tough, back to minus three by mistaking the equalizer with Anderson 20 ‘from the end. Vital rebound by Cappelletti, free throws and +5. Anderson’s triplona (69-67).

At 15 ”from the end of a thrilling throw-in: Lacey controls a foul, misses two free throws, Casarin suffers a foul, scores only one free throw. Captain Antonutti does the most important thing in an anonymous game by scoring from the line. Spanghero misses from three, Cappelletti really closes it to the free: 73-68. But it was just the dress rehearsal.