Treviso Basket, is a crisis: defeat also in Brescia, is the fifth in a row

Nutribullet also sinks in Germani’s house: terrifying third quarter, ends 101-78. And the troubles don’t stop: DeWayne Russell gets hurt

BRESCIA. Third centello in a week. There would have been four in eight days if only in the previous weekend the Fortitudo, in the overtime, had not stopped at an altitude of 99. The Nutribullet sinks more and more reeling into its crisis, of play and results, while the Germani celebrates its tenth consecutive success in championship.

And it is precisely that word, success, which seems to have disappeared from TvB’s vocabulary: from that January 30 when the miraculous sack of Pesaro took place, there are almost only defeats in the Treviso basket – the only exception being the comeback home victory over Tortona. Many setbacks instead, almost all in photocopies, the children of wrong attitudes, tactical errors, tiredness at times and even some injuries.

The bad luck, on the other hand, seems to have become relentless against Treviso Basket. If the origin of the negative series (1-8 between the championship and the Cup from 1 February onwards) had coincided with the knee sprain suffered by Jurkatamm in Istanbul, even at PalaLeonessa the misfortune peeps out with the disrupted suffered by DeWayne Russell. Let it be clear that this cannot be an alibi: probably even without the umpteenth physical illness of an unfortunate season, Nutribullet would hardly have avoided defeat in front of a perky opponent, in confidence, mentally present even when it touches the thirty points advantage. .

The game essentially ends already in the first half, after Treviso collects the first push on 7 equal, the 9-0 signed by Petrucelli (16-7); with Jones in the place of an increasingly dispersed and deleterious Sims, the Nutribullet does something but here comes not only Russell’s injury but also some carelessness that allows Germani to sail calmly. And when Sims gets back on the court and leaves room for Cobbins (honest center but anything but a phenomenon), the omelette is made and served.

The recovery gives only further bitterness, since from 51-41 signed by Imbrò, who evidently likes the location of PalaLeonessa where last season he signed his career record of points, in a few minutes it goes to -24 (70-46, Della Valle’s fourth bombshell of the evening). Game, set and match, to put it in tennis jargon.

The final proportions, on the other hand, are humiliating. Never before, in any of the competitions in which it participated, had TvB lost four consecutive games, taking in a total of 411 points. That is an average of 102.75 per race, an enormity that no formation with the name Treviso on the shirts had previously touched, not even the less defensive formations like those of D’Antoni or the more confusing ones like the 2007-08 Benetton of Ramagli and then Mahmuti.

One wonders if these recent results that are making everyone unhappy are the children of bad luck, wrong market choices, the aftermath of Covid, the excessively expensive double commitment, too many injuries or all these factors put together.

The substance does not change and sees Nutribullet more and more condemned to a desperate run-up to key points in order not to slip towards the relegation zone. On Saturday at Palaverde with Trento a new, further defeat could turn into a sports drama: better to avoid.