UDINE. With a roller coaster game, as is normal to be in preparation, the Old Wild West takes the final of the Memorial Pajetta by beating the Tramac Cento 68-63, a safe play-off team in Serie A2 and on Saturday 4 September ( at 9 pm) he will face Turin (Landi 24) who beat the Falconstar Monfalcone 82-60 in the whole semifinal.
The Apu is an open construction site, especially in the wing department, but already full of ideas. Let’s start from the defensive attitude: there is, he showed it at the beginning and when Boniciolli’s team was needed. With that you go far, without you go nowhere. It will be enough to give continuity throughout the match, which is impossible to do with legs on the cross due to work in progress led by the real foreman of the moment, prof Sepulcri.
Then there is the long chapter, which can only start with the new American under the basket, Walters. Something different from Foulland, better or worse only time will tell. But Brandon seems to be on the right track. Foulland jumped, sometimes dominated from below in defense, but had limited movement in attack and a very good relationship with free throws.
Said of the most polite hand, the new USA fished in the Balkans by the Martelossi-Bniciolli couple jumps little, but runs and of position, old fashioned, seems perfectly capable of doing damage to the opposing defenses. Like yesterday when the longs from Cento, in particular the former Zilli, didn’t understand much with him. At least until he runs out of gas.
The others long? Di Pellegrino (“Ciccioooooo”, including Boniciolli’s scream) and Antonutti (the best in the end) we know everything, little about Esposito. The boy is physically handsome, he defends strong, when he can he also runs well. But it comes from university basketball, it is still immature, an enigma, especially in attack. It should be clearly let us learn, make mistakes and grow. Chapter Ebeling, the wing on which many of the destinies of the APU depend. It may take months to get him back in full shape after knee surgery, but his hands are polite from the outside and time is all on his side here too.
Small chapter. Cappelletti in play, even with Giuri, especially with “professor” Giuri, is already a guarantee, apart from shooting percentages, but there will be time to adjust the aim. Trevor Lacey? Here, Professor Sepulcri had warned that the boy, the star, is behind in condition. Visually, too, it seems obvious. Slow, often in difficulty in defense, imprecise shooting, never slinging into the area, more or less what he was taken for. Two “movements” of his, a couple of bombs and a final as a true leader were enough, however, to understand how, with a month of work, the music will be different. Moreover, it should not be forgotten that in practice he has not played for two years.
Final with coach Matteo Boniciolli, the foreman: «I am satisfied, because these players, more talented than last year, defend strong, pass the ball even at the cost of producing turnovers as we have seen. We are in full preparation, the percentages will improve, but in the meantime the start is good. We found the public again and then, let me tell you, the Americans, with the vaccine made only on Thursday, strongly wanted to play ». Captain Michele Antonutti was also satisfied, ten days of post-Covid training only and yet yesterday the grandfather scratched.
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