Coach Menetti is calm: «We needed more physicality and Jones and Sims have arrived. We finally managed to play in the cup ”
Treviso
Treviso Basket season has begun. Obviously, for the competitive side we will have to wait a month, with the Super Cup starting on September 3, but in the meantime the gym has filled up, the players have arrived (only Sims we will see on Monday), made the tampons, recorded the first programmatic statements. Including those of the fans, who yesterday hung the following banner at the entrance to the Sant’Antonino gymnasium: “Good season guys. Bleachers or street we will be there and always support you. “
Waiting to hear the impressions of the protagonists on the pitch, there are those, no less important, indeed, of those who are outside: coach (Max Menetti) and front office (Paolo Vazzoler and Andrea Gracis).
“It will be a very different, exciting, challenging and difficult year,” he begins Lost, «It is a new path, we will have to stay tuned to a different mentality, given the presence of the Cup, for which I congratulate the club: we will play it with a different team from the one that had earned it. We come from an incredible championship but now we are changing, it will be hard to put the team together, it will take great trust and patience but I am convinced that we could also do better than a year ago ».
You stayed with the 5 + 5 despite more numerous commitments.
“I think we should get free from the passport question: it depends on the Italians. There was no starting format but with this roster we are still covered. And it will also be an important year for our young people, as it was for Piccin and Bartoli ».
Will the game philosophy remain the same?
«Yes, we will try to maintain aggression and speed, we will run and have fun, even if with more races to play it will not always be possible to play fast. More physicality was needed and Jones, who we had been following for a year, and Sims, we’re happy. This is a group where everyone, at various levels, is at an important point in their respective careers. Will we train less? I know that there are those who complain of too many commitments, I actually, and I was saying it from the beginning of my parenthesis in Treviso, I couldn’t wait to play the Cup too. And now we have succeeded.
The Nutribullet roster was physically built by Andrea Gracis.
«We wanted to start from certain values, confirming the core of five players: in addition to the three Italians, keeping Sokolowski was our market hit. He was courted by several and making him stay with us was not at all easy, but he too was happy with the choice made. Also happy with Dimsa’s choice, he too was hungry elsewhere and behind it there was all a work of convincing. As for Russell, he is growing in personality and mentality. Of course we are sorry that Mekowulu has decided to go elsewhere, he is a special boy, he has grown up a lot in Treviso and he also thanked us. We tried to hold him back but in vain ».
You will have Casarin for two years and Bortolani for one.
«We are extremely pleased that historic clubs like Reyer and Brescia have lent us these two guys, we are proud of them. I am convinced that, even with Sims, Jones and Dimsa, we have increased the tonnage on the pitch and created a solid foundation for another good season. How satisfied we are also with the confirmation of the staff, starting with coach Max Menetti ». –