Christmas day in the gym for Cantù Basketball, which on December 26 takes the field in Bologna for the match against Reggio Emilia. An almost paradoxical situation, in a particular year like this 2020.
In fact, in past years, this eventuality has always happened, with the regret of the technical staff and athletes of not being able to spend a day of celebration like December 25 at home with their relatives, and with the fans who – perhaps to recover after a lavish lunch – took a tour to follow the session of their favorites. Now, however, the training of a professional team, with the health emergency and government decrees, becomes one of the few forms of aggregation allowed.
Not an easy task, that of coach Cesare Pancotto in Emilia. Against the Reggio team, the team must in fact dispose of the negativity brought by the internal stop on Sunday at PalaDesio with Germani Brescia.
A Acqua S.Bernardo that was overcome after an extra time but that has to complain against itself for the too many mistakes made, in shooting and not only, for the wrong management of the final of regular time and for the messes committed by its players when instead they needed concreteness and coldness. Qualities that the guests had, who at 45 ‘won 89-92.
The ranking is crying: Cantù is last at 6 points on par with Fortitudo Bologna, Trieste and Varese. The next opponent, Reggio Emilia, is instead in fourth position.
The Brianza resume training today. Tomorrow the session will be double, on Christmas Eve meeting in the afternoon, December 25 in the morning. The departure for Emilia on the same day 26, with the match scheduled at 20.30.
Useful sessions to integrate the new Acquisition of Acqua S.Bernardo, Kavell Bigby-Williams: for the British, against Brescia, 8 minutes on the field, zero points and no action worthy of note. At times he seemed confused, but he had been in Italy for a few hours, so with all the justifications of the case.
“We gave everything we had with great generosity and also with great quality – commented the coach of Brianza, Cesare Pancotto – Unfortunately, then, when a match is assigned to a team for details, we inevitably go to look at the big little ones things that determined the outcome of the match; in this sense I cannot fail to mention our free throw percentages, the management of loose balls and turnovers. These little big details, added up, certainly made a difference. Too bad because we wanted to win against Brescia: we really gave everything ».
The last match of 2020 in Santo Stefano for Cantù. 2021 will begin with the match on January 2 in Desio against Fortitudo Bologna coached by the former Luca Dalmonte.
