The ducals win the friendly comeback at PalaBasletta The play bodes well, the defense immediately trademark
VIGEVANO
Elachem’s third friendly is against a prominent opponent, Juvi Cremona who plays in Serie B like the ducals. It ends 60-57 for Vigevano at PalaBasletta, and the yellow and blue, although seeming more perky than the previous matches, are struggling in particular on the restarts with the opponents.
The goal now is to give players time, but above all to start testing what will be the schemes that will be applied in the league.
Coach Paolo Piazza decides to debut with a quintet with only one long and Filippo Rossi, who had finished last season playing for four, as play maker. During the race the ducal technician also rotates the long ones available, that is Giorgi, Gatti and Radchenko, as Rosa reports the after-effects of an ankle injury. Once again, the youngsters are reinforcing that in this pre-season are still finding minutes and allow the actuals a few minutes of rest.
Defense well
Unlike the first two races, Vigevano also tries out flashes of speed, taking advantage of the accelerations of Rossi and Procacci, play arrived in the summer who also exhibits some change of hands and level play, as well as Mercante who takes some open shots. and gives you a taste of its ballistic capabilities. To compensate for the defensive blunders, which in any case there are occasionally and favor the opponent’s counterattacks, there is the determination and the will to help each other in the defensive phase, which has always been the trademark of the squads in the square. The motivation in the group seems to be there, also because after finishing even at -12 the ducals find themselves at the beginning of the last quarter at -3 with Gatti, able to intercept a ball in defense and restart the attack. The Piedmontese player, injured in the middle of the season in the last championship, is motivated and alone puts the 5-0 break of the last period that allows Vigevano to reopen the game and Procacci to put the overtaking basket 5 ‘from the end. The last minutes spend with the hosts who manage the advantage, proving to have also a remarkable lucidity a few days from the first official match on Saturday night in the Super Cup against Legnano. –