In search of the trio of consecutive successes after the away victories with Reggio Emilia and Varese. Tomorrow Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste will return to embrace their fans, two weeks after the challenge against the Italian champions of Virtus Bologna, facing Vanoli Cremona in the match, starting at 19:30 and valid for the 27th matchday of Serie A.
Allianz wants to continue on the path taken in the last two outings, as underlined on the eve of tomorrow’s match by coach Ciani: “Without a shadow of a doubt we return to play at the Allianz Dome with a different morale and serenity compared to weeks ago and above all with the awareness of being at a good point in our recovery path. Path, which allowed us to get out of a long period of negativity, first by providing high-level game clips with Trento and Virtus Bologna, and then increasing the effectiveness in the last two external challenges. The victories with Reggio Emilia and Varese have returned a positive version of our team, similar to the one that in the first part of the season had hit for collective participation in the game and intensity. Before the trip to Emilia we had talked about six finals, from there to the end of the season, and our attitude towards the next matches has not changed.
On the other side of the field we will find a Cremona who absolutely needs to win to defend the permanence in the category. Vanoli in the last few games, despite the defeats, has shown that she can play good basketball which has allowed her to play it on a par with all the opponents until the last minutes. They will come to Trieste with the need to win and with a fighting and aggressive spirit that we will have to be able to fight back. It will be necessary to enter the match immediately with the correct attitude, of those who with another two points would have the mathematical certainty of being safe in the meantime, thus reaching the first goal of the season “.
The team, led on the bench by Paolo Galbiati, despite occupying the last position in the standings, can count on a roster of players that should not be underestimated: “Surely we will have to be good at stemming these qualities of our opponents: the verticality and athleticism of their longs, the inspiration and talent of guards like Spaniard, one of the Italian talents with a greater international perspective, to which is added a certain consistency in the intermediate roles. Their training has managed to bring these components together in a credible balance; we will have to be able to interrupt their connections, not allowing them to follow their most usual tracks and where they feel most at ease “.
With Reggio Emilia and Varese, all the Trieste staff have shown that they can give their contribution, but among the individualities in addition to the guide Banks, the Malian center Sagaba Konate has been particularly highlighted, who managed not to make Marcos Delia regret, conditioned by an annoying physical problem: “There are two considerations to make on our longs, of diametrically opposite meaning; on the one hand there is the regret and regret of not being able to count at the moment on the usual important contribution of Marcos, blocked by a painful and disabling injury especially in light of the role he covers, on the other hand the return of Konate to his standards comforts us. This last observation together with the good moment of Lever and Grazulis, is allowing us a credible and effective rotation between the long sides that is giving Marcos the possibility to recover to return to give his own contribution in the very last games “.
In this final rush it is evident how the greater mental stability and competitive hunger of one of the two teams can make the difference to seize success, as remarked by the coach himself: “The messages that I will continue to repeat to my players are two, although I believe there is little need to convey them to them in a clear and decisive way, because they are already within them: I want them to continue to live the next matches, starting tomorrow with Cremona. , with this fighting spirit, all the more so in front of our public to whom we want to give the joy of the colon. The other key concept that must accompany us is that, no matter how deep our moment of fogging has been, we can now continue to fight for the maximum goal, which, looking at the path made since the beginning of the season, we deserve to be able to pursue until the end of the season. last day. We don’t want to stop here ”.
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