A sensational evening.
Great basketball, many baskets, a splendid, effective affirmation of a Viola basketball that has no intention of stopping.
6 victories in the last seven days for the black-orange against the direct opponent, a Molfetta basketball which, now, is eight points behind the Reggio players in the middle of the playoff tussle.A crater, as defined by Coach Bolignano with goals subsequent to the simple race for the permanence.
The law of the former does not forgive and the poster of the evening is all for Lazar Kekovic: the big boy with the number nine shirt is devastating, tows, crushes and exalts himself against his former teammates becoming a galactic constant of the new Purple Basketball.
The palm of Mvphowever, in our opinion, in this sparkling evening it goes to Federico Ingrosso: the titular guard of the chessboard of Reggio, all too criticized during the tournament, plays a square, pungent and convincing match.
It will be hard to continue with this trend, considering that the next race, the trip to Agrigento is anything but a nice easy trip to the Valley of the Temples. But, without loss of concentration and with the goal of the post-season, the Reggio players can talk a lot about themselves.
The public? There has been an increase, undoubtedly, the four figures, probably have not yet been reached but the path is the right one and it is necessary to insist on initiatives similar to the one seen today.
The stakes were high, and Yande Fall is keen to do well against the set up pair of long opponents formed by Infante and Bini, together with him there is Bruno Duranti both, they are not at the Top but they strongly wanted to be there, from the first minute.
First quarter with elastic: Reggio immediately tried to escape concretely. The advantage flies to the plus of nine with Fall as the protagonist who realizes an assist from Balic on a consequent passage under the legs of Ingrosso in the showtime version.
Molfetta is anything but a compliant team and comeback until at least one at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter it is a triple at the end of twenty-four to morally enhance the premises.
Kekovic follows him closely and becomes the king of the evening: Crushes on the counterattack, stops with anger in the next action, an authentic “iradiddio” that annihilates his former teammates.
Reggio takes off dragged by an involved audience: first plus nineteen up to 50 to 36 at the end of the second quarter.
All finished? Absolutely not.
The guests, with the motivated Mentonelli on the shields well supported by the constant Villa try the comeback. Arriving even below the double figures to recover, we go to the last and decisive period at 68 to 58.
The effectiveness of Molfetta, however, is interrupted against the desire to win of Reggio. Barrile bags a fundamental triple, Ingrosso makes no mistake, Kekovic, tows Agonisti twice and in the following possession he bags the triple of the knockout
A black-orange party ends 91 to 73.
Pall. Viola Reggio Calabria – Pavimaro Molfetta 91-73 (22-23, 28-13, 18-22, 23-15)
Pall. Viola Reggio Calabria: Federico Ingrosso 18 (6/7, 2/5), Amar Balic 18 (1/4, 5/7), Yande Fall 17 (8/9, 0/0), Lazar Kekovic 13 (4/8, 1/3), Franco Gaetano 12 (6/8, 0/1), Fortunato Barrile 7 (1/3, 1/2), Bruno giuseppe Duranti 6 (0/0, 2/7), Alberto Besozzi 0 (0/0, 0/0), Vittorio Lazzari 0 (0/0, 0/1), Fabio Lorenzo Brake 0 (0/0, 0/1), Samuel andrea Valente 0 (0/0, 0/0)
Free throws: 6/8 – Rebounds: 30 9 + 21 (Franco Gaetano 10) – Assist: 21 (Amar Balic 9)
Pavimaro Molfetta: Francesco Villa 25 (7/7, 3/7), Jona Di giuliomaria 14 (1/1, 3/10), Simone Mentonelli 13 (1/3, 3/4), Francesco Infante 10 (4/10, 0/0), Pietro Agostini 7 (1/2, 1/3), Matteo Bini 4 (1/4, 0/3), Andrea Epifani 0 (0/2, 0/0), Silvio Caniglia 0 (0/0, 0/0), Giuseppe pio Sasso 0 (0/0, 0/0), Guido Scali 0 (0/0, 0/0)
Free throws: 13/15 – Rebounds: 25 5 + 20 (Francesco Villa, Francesco Infante 7) – Assist: 11 (Francesco Infante 3)
