{"id":45869,"date":"2022-03-11T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/news\/lbf-round-23-the-focus-on-our-opponents\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:24:31","slug":"lbf-round-23-the-focus-on-our-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/news\/lbf-round-23-the-focus-on-our-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"LBF, Round 23| The focus on our opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bologna &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last win dates back to the end of November for Broni, before the Lombardy team brought home a heavy win in Ragusa in the midweek recovery round. Virtus Segafredo&#8217;s next opponent in the week-end is in the playout zone: the victories of Faenza and Empoli have shortened the distances in the hot zones.<\/p>\n<p>Orphan of Krivacevic since January, Broni has found itself without one of its main weapons, making the percentage of points scored drop (just 60.3), exponentially too few compared to those allowed (72.6) to hope to worry Virtus, third best attack in the league, which travels at an average of 74.9 per game. Even in the first leg, Segafredo was able to get the game over with in three quarters, handing the last quarter to the garbage time, managing the forces and the game and closing fifteen lengths ahead. Broni, in spite of Dedic under the basket (11.7 points average) and Smith on the outside (13.5 average), needs extremely the support cast, with only 54.6 points scored in the last exits. At the direction, Galbiati alone doesn&#8217;t produce enough to be a real danger, making Broni&#8217;s game very predictable, and Bestagno, in relation to the minutes played, contributes too little to the final haul with only 6.9 points and 3.7 assists against 32.4 minutes on the floor (third most used player). Segafredo also has on its side the three-point percentage, which reaches 35%, while Broni shoots with ten percentage points less: only 25.6% so far, despite the fact that in the last match they were leveled considerably (34.8% for Virtus against 31.3% for the home team).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":45860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,261,248],"tags":[269,265],"class_list":["post-45869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-primo-piano-en","category-womens-basketball-league","category-news","tag-app-en","tag-evidence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}