PalaBanca of Piacenza, A2 series. “I feel hot” he said before challenging Orzinuovi. Result: 13 triples to sign, like McGee: “Another difficulty though”
When you are a champion, sometimes the sporting achievement is not enough. You put your signature on it. But if you can predict it, then, the company becomes a legend. Like Babe Ruth, US baseball legend, famous for calling his jokes. Michael Jordan, some can swear, planned every single basket in Game 5 against the Utah Jazz, Nba Finals 1995, playing with a high fever. And then there is Luca Cesana.
A curry grimace
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PalaBanca of Piacenza, A2 series. “I feel hot”. The Assigeco guard jokes in the warm-up with the trainer. It’s Saturday night. “You know what I tell you: today I sign 6 triples”. No sooner said than done. Except that the 1st quarter has just finished. From the bench they make fun of him: “Shall we stop here?”. He bursts out laughing: “Not even for an idea!”. It is a special evening, and Luca understands this in the sixth triple. “I was about to receive the ball on the run. A grimace escaped me, almost a smile. I was sure to score “. A bit like Steph Curry when he shoots 3 and turns his back on the basket because he already knows the ending. In the end Cesana’s triples will be 13, not bad for someone who was already shooting with 50%. Piacenza overwhelms Orzinuovi 117-79. From 13-20, no Italian had ever succeeded before, for a total of 46 points, 4th performance ever in LNP.
Come McGee
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This boy born in Erba, class of 1997, in his first season as a starter, enters the history of Italian basketball and finds himself together with names like Carlton Myers and his 87 points, a record in a single game. Or Oscar Schmidt, a Brazilian legend who never went beyond 12 triples. Luca also supports Mike McGee: the former US guard from Desio shot 13-30 in 1989 against Florence. But at the time the arch was 6.25 meters from the basket. Other times. Other distance. “And another difficulty. The 13th arrived 4 ” from the end with 2 defenders on! “. The game was over, but Orzinuovi certainly did not want to enter history through the wrong door. “I heard a boom. The comrades came to celebrate me. Perfect ending to a crazy evening. Unrepeatable? I hope to experience moments like these again. Dreaming costs nothing “.
In the name of … Bulleri
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Luca dreams of the Euroleague and the national team. The playoffs are the goal this year. The 2004 Athens Olympics, the spark between him and basketball. He was 7 years old. “I was watching the final on TV and I wanted to enter the field. There was also Bulleri, today coach of Orzinuovi who we beat on Saturday. If I am here it is also thanks to him “. Youth in Cantù, European U16 and U17 World Cup in blue, won the U20 championship with the Brianza and joined the first team in 2015. A controversial season, that of the Lombard club. He starts with coach Fabio Corbani and Anna Cremascoli as president. It ends with Dmitrji Gerasimenko the owner and Sergej Bazarevich on the bench. Not a memorable year. “But I learned a lot. Everything can change in an instant, but you must always be ready ”.
Fear makes … 90
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Befriends Awudu Abass, admires Brady Heslip’s shooting style. The following year he goes to Treviglio, then Rome, Casale, finally Piacenza. The of him, a family of sportsmen. He is the youngest of 4 brothers: 2 train, the third plays in Serie C and his mother also has a past as a basketball player. Graduated in Psychology, he loves playing the guitar. Ray Allen, Kyle Korver and Klay Thompson his idols. But the player Luca takes with him to every game is Michael Jordan. “One day he said: the best evaluation I can make of a player is to look his fear of him in the eye.” And so he chose number 90 on the shirt. “Because fear is ninety and I wear it. But it is the adversaries who have it in front of us ”.
8 March – 18:58
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