37, 36, 34 e 31. No, we don’t give numbers due to the “discomfort” of the team’s first defeat of the season Trieste Basketballbut it is enough to display these figures to explain properly and at the same time with sufficient synthesis the cause of the red and white woes due to last night’s knockout against Reggio Emilia. Because those there are the data of the minutes of Brown, Valentine, Uthoff and Ruzzier respectively, causing the defections right before the two-way ball of Colbey Ross e Jeff Brooks. That is, four fifths of the starting five were inevitably “squeezed” due to a match that then became difficult to manage from the third quarter onwards.
Let’s say it straight away: no drama for the two points lost against Unahotels, who implemented the… perfect storm by taking advantage of the incomplete roster of Jamion Christian. And the coach, by his own admission, in the final minutes tried to overturn the inertia now in Reggio’s hands by betting everything on a low quintet, armed however only with three-point shots which ended up no longer entering when they needed to give a shock . But we repeat: in a situation of isudden red and white emergency preceded by the two-ball, in the long run the fight against a well-equipped team, which laid waste not only the perimeter but also the penetration lines (Trieste, the one on one of Winston and coshe never managed to handle it…) would have become unequal. No sooner said than done.
There is, however, a glass half full to be savednet of the fact that next Saturday in Treviso (with four buses of red and white fans already booked and the fifth to be completed) it should be a given that seeing the two excellent absentees from yesterday back on the pitch. That is, the return of Justin Reyes who we were expecting to see again in just a few weeks (the physical form is naturally what it is at the moment, but having seen one of the protagonists of last season back on the parquet is already a great deal in itself) and the good performances of both Uthoff (which no longer matters, because he has already taken the rank of silent leader for some time) and above all of Johnsonalways not beautiful to look at but substantial with those 13 points, 7 rebounds and also 2 assists in the 23 minutes spent on the court. And for a team markedly devoted to doing damage from the perimeter, the piece that on paper offers the greatest unknowns is the one that is working the most and which above all has the possibility of being the additional weapon in the red and white tactical chessboard.
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