06.03.2022 – 09:00 – The appointment with the Serie A1 basketball championship returns today after the closing of the Final Eight and the long national break. Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste, this afternoon, at 17:00, will face the red-gold of Umana Reyer Venezia in the match valid for the 21st day of the Italian top flight. The red and white wish to start again by giving a new success to their fans and consequently remaining in the top tiers of the ranking. At the moment Allianz, who will recover the match against Sassari on Wednesday, occupies the 4th position in the standings with twenty points to their credit, together with HappyCasa Brindisi and Derthona Tortona. Cavaliero and his companions will find themselves in front of a Venice that this year is traveling on alternating current and that in the next few weeks wants to climb a ranking that at the moment sees it firm in 13th place with 16 points. Coach Ciani, in presenting the challenge on the eve, underlined the fact that he is returning to play within the friendly walls after more than a month away from Valmaura: “Returning to our field is an important moment and a great stimulus for us, perceiving more energy and sparkle in the environment that surrounds us is good for us. Surely this triptych of away matches was difficult: it brought us the victory of Treviso but also the setbacks with Brescia and Tortona that made us understand how this last part of the season can be very complex and will require intensity and a general ceiling condition. Also for this reason, returning to our audience and trusting in their drive, in a phase like this, is fundamental. We have been saying this for some time but now that we have reached the key moment of the season we can no longer postpone this renewal of the promise of love between the team and the public ”.
Trieste will challenge a team that in recent years has been among the protagonists of the Italian basketball scene, also managing to win the Scudetto in 2019: “Venice is a team of extraordinary quality, it must not deceive the ranking, the result of a complex season where the balance was not the usual one and there were some difficulties. However, the backbone of the lagoon team is 50% that of those who won the Italian title in 2019. We must therefore have great consideration and respect for our opponents, not being dazzled by a truthful ranking due to the difficulties we have mentioned but that it is absolutely a liar if we think about the absolute value of this team which in my opinion is a top three club in the league as a roster, as a system and as a consolidated structure in recent seasons. To stop this team it will therefore be necessary to play with aggression, ruthlessness, courage and with extreme expenditure of energy “.
In the break for the national teams, which saw Delia and Grazulis engaged respectively with Argentina and Latvia, the Trieste group worked with serenity and constancy to better prepare for this season finale: “Over the course of these two weeks we have tried to include more and more Ty-Shon Alexander in our mechanisms, regain some polish and brilliance from a physical-athletic point of view, recharging ourselves for the final sprint of this championship. From now on we will no longer be able to sit on the saddle of our bicycle but we will always have to continue pedaling because it will be a compact group sprint, Giro d’Italia style, with all the sprinters at work. We must not lose the pace, stick to the right train and not lose the wheel of the best ones. In this last period, coinciding with the break for the commitments of the national teams, we have tried to prepare ourselves to do this. From a tactical point of view we have been able to work fully since Wednesday with the return of Grazulis and Delia from their respective away matches. We will try to obtain the fruits of this work immediately even if it is clear that, especially from an athletic point of view, we will see the benefits of these sessions within a few weeks. But we believe we are in the right mood to find the best condition in this final rush “.
For this restart of the championship, which after tomorrow’s match will see Trieste face Sassari again at the Allianz Dome against Dinamo Sassari on Wednesday 9 March at 20:00, the red and white club has proposed a series of initiatives to facilitate the purchase of tickets by of the fans: “I believe that the importance that the club gives to this return of the public to the stadium is represented precisely by the commitment to activate these initiatives, with the desire to meet the daily needs of our supporters and our supporters. For our part, we can only promise to honor this match against Venice with the right attitude and with the desire to achieve a great result. I am convinced that to achieve great results we must be united and ensure that the synergy between fans and team, already seen on some occasions this year, is repeated and reinvigorated even more so that hand in hand we can travel towards success. that from here to the end we will need to live this season always in a noble and precious band of the standings “.
