TREVISO
One last obstacle is missing, at TvB, to hit the big target, access to the regular season of the Basketball Champions League 2021-22.
But that obstacle, insidious and fraught with potential dangers, is called Tsmoki-Minsk, a club that is part of the VTB League galaxy (the former Soviet league) and which in recent years has been the protagonist of constant growth that has culminated twelve months ago with the first, historic entry into the Bcl that now the Belarusians themselves would like to replicate. These results are the result of massive investments that have brought to Minsk players of the caliber of Robert Upshaw, the globetrotting pivot who is the real pivot of coach Vergun’s team: even against Leiden, the American center did not fail to contribute to the duel under the planks with another seven foot like Midtgaard. But Minsk also counts on the eclecticism of center-winger Stefan Jankovic, a 2.11m of substance that can also hit from the bow and who landed in Belarus after growing up between Canada and the United States before returning to his homeland and then being shot. on loan in Greece and Turkey. Not to be underestimated the contribution of the directors, from the former Brescia Warner to the local product Bliznyuk, deputies to supply the long balls but also to hit. The weak point of Minsk is the absence of the intermediate game, as demonstrated against Leiden: without an inspired Upshaw in post or when the 3-pointer does not enter with continuity, the team enters into crisis at an offensive level and can collect heavy breaks. –
Federico Bettuzzi