Bologna –
Having skipped Badalona, Belgrade, Gran Canaria and Ljubljana, one of Valencia and Segafredo will now have to try to remain a direct survivor to the last act of this EuroCup. There’s so much stuff in this part of the scoreboard that it’s worth praising patience, rewarded by the noblest semifinal, that Virtus will have to face away from home against an opponent that has always beaten it this year, but now with Hackett and Shengelia in the engine.
An even denser wait, suggested by the fact that in Spain Virtus Segafredo will find the most winning team in the history of the competition, 4 cups and 2 second places, which lines up 4 players who have already raised the trophy in 2019: Bojan Dubljevic, Louis Labeyrie, Mike Tobey and Sam Van Rossom. In addition Victor Claver, champion in Valencia in 2010, Dubljevic, who also won the Eurocup in 2014 and Bojan Dubljevic all-time leading scorer with 1,611 points. Missing the injured swingman Klemen Prepelic, in the area will find space in the centers Bojan Dubljevic, Mike Tobey, Jasiel Rivero and Jaime Pradilla, references of a whole season, but they will have to enter the territory manned by Mam Jaiteh, after the initial break-in arrived at the current regimes of 13.2 points and 7.8 rebounds. Tremendous also the Fonteta factor: 96-13 in the history of the competition, which is worth a winning percentage over 88%. Even better, if possible, on nights without tomorrow with a 27-3-1 record between playoffs and elimination rounds. The only losses came in the 2013 semifinals at the hands of Kuban, in the 2015 quarters against Khimki and in the decisive third game of the finals against Malaga. In the recent quarter against Boulogne, Valencia even finished with 24 assists and just 11 losses, Martin Hermannsson’s 11 assists and no losses of which earned him a new club high record.
