Bologna –
Going to Trieste, Segafredo will find a 100% open arena and an adversary on which, in the last championship game in Trento, the sixth defeat in a row (seventh Coppa Italia included) rained down, less intoxicated than the others but globally heavy.
It will try again on Saturday, more with a defense able to wear down the attack than on the run. However, for Virtus it won’t be an obligatory exercise in front of this Allianz that has in Adrian Banks (15.1 average and 30.5 guaranteed minutes) the bomber lighthouse, in Corey Davies, added during the work, the direction guide (11.5 points and 3.8 assists) together with the 37 years of experience of Daniele Cavaliero. In the area, the ex Marcos Delia (11.4 points and 6 rebounds), a very intelligent center with a great ability to pass, and the Malian Konate (5.9 rebounds), a heavy man who ended up on the fringes of the rotation: in Trento he was on the floor for 70 seconds, the time of two lost balls and then returned.
Coach Ciani preferred Lever, alternating him as 4 and 5 when Delia had to rest. Together with them Andrejs Grazulis, long atypical from 1.2 stops. Against the Giulians, there should be a lot of shooting from the field where they occupy the fourth position with 46.1%, maybe more from the medium distance, swollen with ecstasy 53% (fourth) than from the distance where the aim is weaker 33.4% (fourteenth). What Trieste will want to look for then will be some closer baskets, protecting the iron as it knows how to do (third with 28 defensive rebounds) counting maybe on more recoveries than usual (sixteenth with just 4.9 per game).
