22.01.2022 – 08:00 – This evening, Everyone ore 18:00, at theAllianz Dome of Valmaura, la Trieste basketball, fresh from the mocking defeat against Reggio per 83 a 85, will make his return to the field on the friendly parterre where he will challenge the Giallorossi of Carpegna Pesaro Ham, in the match valid for the 17th day from A1 Series. Today’s will be the first weekend of the second round of the 2021-2022 season after the postponement of the 16th day scheduled to 13 April. Coach Franco Ciani’s boys will take to the field determined to redeem the two points vanished at the overtime last Sunday, aware of finding themselves in front of an opponent who, despite the 13th position in the standings and the resounding defeat against Brescia (110-78), on January 16th defeated the leaders Olimpia Milan with the final score of 85 a 82; a result very similar to what last December 16 saw the Giulians fall below the triples of Olisevicius and Cinciarini. Therefore, it will be fundamental against Pesaro to guess the right approach to the game from the first minute allowing Cavaliero and his companions to better manage an important match to consolidate the game with greater serenity 3rd position in the standings, before the two heavy trips of Treviso (28/1) e Naples (31/1).
The Allianz, without Alessandro Lever, in the pits due to injury, and with the center-winger Luca Campani aggregated to the red and white, during the week he carried out intense training sessions in the name of continuity, an element that had been missing in the last period due to several covid cases between staff and team group and a busy schedule. Yesterday, on the eve of tonight’s match, the Allianz Head Coach, Franco Ciani, carried out a thorough analysis.
“Pesaro today, with the change of technical guidance and after having found new tactical and rotational balances, it is an opponent of excellent level and extraordinary consistency – emphasized Ciani. This was also confirmed by the success achieved by Carpegna against Milan, the only team with us to have beaten Coach Messina’s team in the championship. If we think about what happened on Thursday in the recovery of Brescia, where the Lombard team defeated the team from the Marche, we have another Pesaro in mind but we must not fall into temptation to underestimate our opponents. This championship, in this phase characterized by various recoveries and chases to the best physical condition, at the moment it is difficult to give precise answers. What must be clear to us is that Pesaro has won five of the last seven games and therefore has a very good roadmap and as such it will have to be faced”.
“The last seven days – continued Ciani – They were a pleasant return to a habitual training program, clearly with some differentiation on the rhythms and individualization of the work given that we still have to take into account the different degree of condition of the players and above all of those who remained stationary for Covid. It was therefore not the usual pattern but certainly the closest thing to the typical week we experienced since the match against Milan on December 19 on. This has certainly done us good and now our task is to bring the benefits of this work in the name of continuity to the field against Pesaro ”.
To defeat Pesaro and stay on the top floors of the ranking, Trieste Basketball will certainly need the warmth and passion of its audience: “I’ve always said it in unsuspecting times like the full Allianz Dome, in compliance with the rules, and with the usual heat can play a decisive role in home matches. We are a team that needs great enthusiasm and energy, to fly pushed by those around us. We are not a group that gives its best in a silent context characterized by a non-optimal participatory interest. All players need to feel the excitement on the outside. IT’S It is clear that everything that happens every day in our Italian society is leading to a disaffection and reduction in attendance even in sports halls. But I hope that this chaotic situation does not obscure what is currently proving to be a great season for Trieste Basketball. A season that at the moment is the second best result in the mid-season in Trieste basketball history from Stefanel onwards. I therefore hope that the great enthusiasm and competence of the public will lead our fans to evaluate well the choice to come to the Allianz Dome to give us a hand. and replicate this excellent path of the first round also in the return ” – concluded the red and white Head Coach.
