Bologna –
Buried in the last championship game in Villorba under the unreal -25 from a Brescia with 55% from the field, Treviso opens the new year slipping to the tenth place in the standings, having closed 2021 with three defeats in a row. Better its Europe, the only Italian still in the Champions League, sure to play next Tuesday the “Play In” at the Peace and Friendship of Piraeus with Lavrio after the round won in game 1: DeWayne Russell (18 points, 8 assists), Henry Sims (22 points, 8 rebounds in less than 27′) and Tomas Dimsa (19 points, 5/6 from 3, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, 22 plus/minus) the best. Here then is the insertion of the Estonian Mikk Jurkatamm, 21 years old, 195 cm guard, who arrived in Italy at the age of fifteen at Virtus, with whom he did the youth training that gave him the status of Italian in the LBA. During the season, with TTU KK in the Estonian/Latvian league, he was scoring 15.5 points with 35% from three, 40% from two, 82% on free throws, almost 5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 27′.
The theory that has blossomed as a corollary today gives Treviso a younger team compared to the recent past: Giordano Bortolani (9.7 points in 22.5 minutes) has the best answers, Davide Casarin (2.3 points in 12.5 minutes), on loan from Reyer but on his way out of La Marca, and the Lithuanian Tomas Dimsa (12.3 point guard with 40.8% from 3). The rest is in the lap of the fate of a very balanced team, partly linked to the moods of Henry Sims (13.6 points and 8.8 rebounds, third in Serie A) and DeWayne Russell (12.2 points and 5.1 assists, sixth in the league). The sliding doors of the infirmary tell of a Michal Sokolowski out for about 10 days (right calf problem) and the return of Nicola Akele, who has come back from the orbital bone injury. Between Napoli and Sassari, the Nutribullet is perhaps hatching the idea of having thrown away 4 points necessary for the Final Eight of the Coppa Italia, perhaps looking at what was left on the road in those three months of the season when everything was going better: 78.1 points conceded in the first 11 league outings, 96.5 in the last two. Inside a Serie A toppled by Covid this is stirring around the duellists of the Segafredo Arena that, back on the court a few hours after their European commitments, the fresh air outside the facility won’t even feel it.
