Vigevano, coach Piazza wants to dispel the taboo with San Miniato

The ducal technician fasting from victories against the Tuscans, the clash at the top on Sunday “A flexible and aggressive team that plays without a real role pivot”

VIGEVANO

Each coach has his own black beast. Coach Paolo Piazza jokes a little about it, but in recent years his has been San Miniato, an opponent of Elachem in Sunday’s summit clash at PalaBasletta. «Against the Tuscan team – says the ducal technician – I have never won. In all, we have played five times in the last few years, two in regular rounds and three in the playoffs. Always defeated ». On Sunday he will try in every way to dispel this taboo, because San Miniato arrives at Basletta in a match that is not just any match. Both Vigevano and the Tuscan team occupy the first place in the standings in group A. The winner of the challenge will close the first round in first place alone and will fly from before the group even to the final eight of the Italian Cup.

Before reaching the two-man ball, however, the ducal team must face a difficult path. Moving on from the infirmary problems. Starting with the pads that will tell if the play Alessandro Procacci will be available, so as to spend it for a few minutes, since before Christmas he does not train in a group, due to a shoulder resentment and then Covid. Then there is Mercante, who in the away match against Cecina, played despite having recovered from colitis. And during the week he still suffered some aftermath. Again in midweek training, Piazza had to resort to the boys from the youth sector to put together a sufficient number of elements.

A team that attacks

But let’s go back to the Tuscans. «I saw them play recently – explains Piazza – a team that changes a lot on the blocks and maintains an aggressive attitude. Theirs is a basketball that pays off especially if they find permissive refereeing. They don’t have many centimeters, their players are between 1.95 and 2 meters. They have the characteristic of being interchangeable and. They can change on all blocks and nobody physically suffers. It is a team that has the particularity of not having a long role ».

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Andrea Ballone