The Bolognese pivot sees it this way: “They will be aggressive because they have to get out of the lower part of the standings, we always in the match plan”
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In the “mother of all games” the only absence, and what an absence, will be that of the fans. It is useless to pretend nothing has happened: a Treviso-Fortitudo without choirs, teasing, whistling at Fantinelli and insulting everyone (the rest we know let’s leave it alone) is like a pizza without tomato: you eat the same but lose a lot of taste. All the rest tomorrow evening in front of the Rai Sport cameras, there will be rivalry in the first place (so far the Bolognese successes 11 to 7), but also the common need to win, especially for the Bolognese who with 14 points are closer to the relegation zone (if ever this year there will be) and that of the playoffs, to participate in which it was expressly built and then revised and corrected. De ‘Longhi has avoided the embarrassment of presenting herself with the third defeat in a row but must absolutely find the usual fan of prof. David Logan who among other things, in 98-87 with which he conquered the Unipol Arena in the first leg, trimmed 35, a franchise record. And maybe hope that Russell will repeat himself, or at least come close to the stellar anti-Reggiana levels. Then of course there is the ex on duty, who for Menetti is Matteo Chillo, according to whom «Fortitudo will certainly be fierce, given the last home game, the period and the fact that they cannot find a constant pace. So they will arrive in search of important points, also because they have to remove themselves from the passing side of the ranking. They certainly have players who can play a great game thanks to their experience and a lot of talent. We will have to be good at not having blackouts and not finding ourselves in the moment of maximum difficulty having to come up with that little bit more to get back into the game, because sometimes it is not enough. With Reggio Emilia it went well and we managed to get back into the race despite being down by even 10 points, but that’s not always the case. So we must definitely face them directly and try to find and put our way of playing on the pitch right away ». Compared to the defeat of the first round, Effe have made profound changes: in addition to the new coach (from Meo Sacchetti to Luca Dalmonte), Bologna has released Ethan Happ (now in Sassari), Fletcher (in Pistoia), Sabatini and Dellosto (on loan in Ferrara) and added Dario Hunt and Tommaso Baldasso, as well as Marco Cusin and Wesley Saunders. However, a team full of individuality capable, as Chillo says, of finding inspiration in the presence of its long-time rival. Against Bologna it will be appropriate to continue defending as we saw at least in the last quarter of Sunday. Also because TvB, as everyone knows, generally does not shine back there. To give some examples, De ‘Longhi is the team that, despite some recent improvements, in A gets the most baskets: 88.7 on average.
And steps. But it is also the one that gives the opponents the best percentages of two (57.7), three (40.9, alarming, corrective urges) and in the free (78. 6).
And she is also the one who gets the most blocks, 3 and takes fewer rebounds, 33. Nonetheless, she constantly floats in the playoff zone.
Having said that basketball is obviously something else, it is quite clear that, in the event that only some of these items can be improved, Treviso could fly even higher in the standings. –