{"id":72445,"date":"2025-05-29T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/news\/matt-morgan-and-momo-diouf-two-new-players-in-virtus-segafredo-bologna-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:57:12","slug":"matt-morgan-and-momo-diouf-two-new-players-in-virtus-segafredo-bologna-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/news\/matt-morgan-and-momo-diouf-two-new-players-in-virtus-segafredo-bologna-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Morgan and Momo Diouf, two new players in Virtus Segafredo Bologna playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bologna &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Virtus winning against Venezia in Game 5 and securing the pass to the playoff semifinals, the protagonists were many: among them certainly Matt Morgan and Momo Diouf. Two of Segafredo&#8217;s summer signings proved to be important factors especially in the final games against Reyer.<\/p>\n<p>The Virtus center, the best in Game 4 at Taliercio author of 19 points and 8 rebounds, was definitely a key pawn in the Virtus chessboard especially in the defensive half of the court. His, together with Pajola, the defense on Ennis at 1&#8242; to the end of Game 5, with the score tied; his is the recovered ball that starts the counterattack that gives Morgan the -3 triple, an action that allows Segafredo to finally get back into the game.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, indeed, always in double figures for points scored, with the exception of game 4. The 6-0 Bianconero partial, in the decisive game of the series at the Segafredo Arena, comes right from the hands of the American guard within a few seconds. <strong>45% from three for Matt in the series against Venezia, 13 points average: a certainty coming off the bench for coach Dusko Ivanovic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now for the Vere Nere is the semifinals, with Matt Morgan and Momo Diouf as additional certainties on a roster that is getting closer and closer to the final rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":72441,"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":[307,268,256,248],"tags":[308,269,265],"class_list":["post-72445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague-en","category-primo-piano-en","category-a-league","category-news","tag-euroleague-en","tag-app-en","tag-evidence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72445","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=72445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtus.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}