In one of the advances of the last round of the championship played, a familiar face has returned to take the front page and the title of best Italian. Thanks to one of the classic ballistic performances he has accustomed us to during his career, Marco Belinelli (Virtus Segafredo Bologna) also surpassed the consensus of the fans in the voting, keeping Matteo Tambone (Carpegna Prosciutto Pesaro) and Pietro Aradori behind him. (Fortitudo Kigili Bologna).
Strong men, strong destinies. The guard of San Giovanni in Persiceto is able to change the fate of a match only with his presence in attack, taking responsibility for shooting and attracting the opposing defenders to himself, leaving the field free to his teammates for easy baskets. Experience is what makes him ineluctable, therefore it is of little use to double him and contain him, he will still find a way to give two points or a magic from beyond the arc with which to get out of the way. In the challenge against NutriBullet already decided by an excellent team performance, Belinelli put the classic icing on the cake making life impossible for the direct scorer forced to send him to the bezel 11 times during the evening. At the end of the match, his scoreboard reads 17 under the points item, to which he added a convincing defensive contribution thanks to the 7 rebounds captured (one of which is offensive) and the 2 recoveries with which he transformed defensive actions into offensive. As a perfect team man he managed his possessions very well by giving 2 assists to his teammates and earned a 23 rating thanks to the numerous fouls suffered (5) which led him to increase his loot by converting free shots with 90.9% conquered (10/11).
In an evening that was not particularly precise in shooting, the number 3 of Virtus was able to transform this apparent problem into an enigma for the opponents, forced to see him constantly pull from the line of charity in the 21 minutes in which he remained on the court. A true clinic of how to be fouled in shooting action: making contact during a penetration for an easy three-point game, transforming a forced long-range shot into three free throws, forcing the direct scorer to commit an infraction in order not to see yet another balloon at the bottom of the retina. During the match Beli was able to go from a ballistic lesson to a playmaking lesson, freeing with a valuable no look pass the French Cordinier for the two easy points of 32-15; from attack to defense, the lethal Virtus scorer has risen to the chair under the boards by shoving against much bigger and more gifted opponents in centimeters, but untangling himself with class he left them only the crumbs.
In the twelve games played this season, the former NBA champion has already scored 173 points, placing himself behind only Segafredo’s top scorer, Kyle Weems (224, but with two more games). Efficiency in the service of the team, this is the main characteristic of Belinelli, who in the midst of the many defections suffered by Virtus he managed to remain standing to help in moments of greatest need. If the distance shot has suffered a decline, the same cannot be said of the remaining statistics: in fact, the 1986 class travels with 52.7% from the middle distance and is the best from the line (86.8%, fourth in the championship); 14.4 the average points scored and 13.3 the average rating recorded so far, data that place him respectively in second and fourth place on the roster. Finally, among the players (from Bologna) with at least ten games to his credit he is fourth for distributed assists (2.2), sixth for rebounds (2.7) and fifth in the plus / minus item (5.3).
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