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Tj Cromer says goodbye to Edilnol, returns to the US and works: Biella returns to the market

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When he communicated his decision to general manager Damiano Olla, to return to the United States, Tj Cromer had tears in his eyes. When he told his teammates, their applause pierced the walls of the changing rooms and was heard right up to the edges of the parquet. The American on whom Edilnol had relied on as leader of the team, yesterday greeted everyone: he will go home to have his foot operated, source of the annoyances that forced him to raise the white flag and the club to have to look around to find a substitute. His identikit? A guard with good statistics, but who does not think only of those, taking care of the young people he will have around as the former Udine had started to do. «We have a list of names – says Olla -. The ideal is to do it quickly and well. But what matters most now is not to make mistakes ».

The decision was in the air, but yesterday it became irrevocable. The foot trouble limited Cromer since his arrival: he told the club that it was an old problem that had never limited him and that he had always played with. In fact, never in his previous experiences in Europe, between Ukraine and Italy, was he diagnosed as limiting. But perhaps the long stop due to the lockdown has made things worse. In Biella they did everything to put it back in place and wait for it: first the differentiated work under the eyes of the athletic trainer Roberto Marocco, then a week, the past one, to speed up the pace. Saturday’s game with 19 points in the basket seemed like a good sign. But the pain returned to be felt and worried about the player and the club, until yesterday’s final decision. For Damiano Olla it was a difficult day, especially due to the state of mind that the player has expressed, excited as if it weighed on him as much as on the team having to leave. “He told me to keep this in mind as soon as he is healed,” says with a bitter smile the general manager who now has to find a replacement with similar characteristics and impact and who feels comfortable in a group that has already found its own square. Surely he will not arrive in time for Trapani, a debut away match to be faced with the Italians and with Steven Davis. “Stay focused” was the recommendation of coach Andrea Zanchi before yesterday’s training. Not far from the parquet Tj Cromer, after filling his bag with his things, came out of the locker room with his head down, with the braids held together by the hat of the Old Guard, a reminder of the Barlera curve to take with him. Then he went to order pizzas for the whole team, to eat together at the end of training, a farewell party before packing up with his wife and two daughters who had already joined him in the city.

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