02.01.2023 – 12:00 – This evening at ore 20:30 on the parquet of the Pala Olimpia GMS Forum of Veronathe challenge valid for the will be staged twelfth day Of LBA championship between Tezenis Verona e Trieste Basketball. An important match for both franchises. For the Scaligeri it will be essential to bring home the two points to get back to winning at home and break away from the bottom of the table, for the Giulians it will be necessary to find victory to give continuity to the enthusiasm gained with the great team performance shown in the match against Trento and continue to score points on the fields of direct opponents thus fully earning the goal of salvation. On the eve of the away match in Verona, the Assistant Coach Massimo Maffezzoli he took stock of the situation from the Allianz Dome press room: “We come to this match with the enthusiasm given us by the victory but above all by the convincing performance in the match against Trento. This week we managed to train hard with some problems that we are used to managing by now. It will be a match that will see us face a direct competitor. Verona also comes from a very important victory gained in the away game in Naples. On the part of both teams there will therefore be the desire to confirm themselves and to try to detach the group of teams that are currently fighting for salvation. Going to take a victory would therefore have a double value from this point of view ”.
“First of all, Verona has the desire and the need to win at home, as it hasn’t won since the match against Brindisi. We will have to be absolutely good at approaching this challenge in the right way without allowing Verona to develop that enthusiasm which can ignite so many of their interpreters, since it is a team made up of talents and not just Karvel Anderson, who is the primary goal of their attack as well as a player who through his initiatives is able to ignite both his teammates and the public. Attention also to Cappelletti, who is playing an excellent season in Serie A, but also to Smith, in the long department, a player who is playing a season of the highest level, but also to their Italian interpreters such as Bortolani and Casarin. We will have to be solid in defence, as we demonstrated in the match against Trento. We know very well what Verona prefers to do, so we will clearly try to limit them, but at the same time we will have to be good, or even better than last week, at playing offensive basketball together. These will certainly be the things we will have to focus on ”.
Maffezzoli then wanted to spend a few words to reassure the red and white fans about the health conditions of AJ Pacher, who got injured in the last home match following a frantic game action: “The contact and the blow that AJ suffered in the match against Trento was a bad contact, even to see. Fortunately, instrumental examinations, especially those of the head but also of the wrist, excluded fractures or serious problems. However, the player is following a differentiated job so his conditions, monitored day after day, and his participation in the match will most likely be decided at the last minute ”.
The Assistant Coach finally wanted to hand the best wishes for the new year to all giuliani supporters and invite them to follow the team at the PalaOlimpia AGSM Forum: “I take this opportunity to offer, on behalf of myself, the management, the whole team and the Company, my most sincere wishes for a happy new year to all our fans and their families, hoping that 2023 will be a year full of satisfaction, basketball and otherwise, for everyone. Starting the year with a nice trip to Verona would be a good way to start the year. We look forward to seeing many of you and again our dearest wishes for a happy new year”.
