“And here we are”, sang Francesco De Gregori. And here we are, on the most important day, for Italian basketball. TO Belgrade, away from home, with little public, fortunately, but with very few chances to make it, let alone without Datome, Belinelli e Gallinari.
We are looking for an emotion, to really play it to the end but which ends contrary to usual, to all the decisive situations we have in mind, with theItalbasket that freezes in attack at the key moment, in the last 5 ‘like to the last world championship, with Meo Sacchetti or how at the 2006 World Cup, with the errors of Belinelli, very young, and of Basile, from the bezel.
And all the times we skipped the Olympic Games, it would be the 7th absence in the last 9 editions, it would be a great surprise if we were to reverse the prediction.
We want a national team that amazes us, Bags wowed with Sassari it’s at Cremona, to Fortitudo Bologna much less, in the national team like this, he lost weight, quiet, who knows.
Need aItalbasket arrembante, amazing, that it can excite, that it goes on, that it knows how to defend, that it finds the enterprise of the century, because that would be it.
Only qualification would avoid a Bags the turnover, a 68 years he gave the best, he also appears a bit tired, he serves his spectacular game, with which he has amazed Italy several times but not the world, in the Euroleague he had such a negative record that Sardara even fired him.
It serves that Often amazed, in recent years he has done it. That Nico Mannion is really worthy ofNba, that Tonut behave from MVP Italian of the LBA, that Melli both from Nba, perhaps waiting to return to Italy, that Simone Fontecchio you jump over obstacles, like your father did Daniele, super, on the 110 obstacles, which Ricci be the key man who is a Bologna. And then Weavers, Abass, that Moraschini both the one seen at Brindisi. And also Vitali, brilliant as well Germany. Polonara in Spain won the Scudetto, at 30 he is at the top, increased compared to the championship finals of Reggio Emilia. And then Pajolahere is the big surprise of the season, at 22 years old, champion of Italy, incredible.
Serve an Italbasket model Virtus, template Milano in Euroleague this year, a Bags what Obradovic does, seen in the stands in Beograd.
We need all this and much more. And it will probably not be enough, let’s say it first, because we are realistic.
Basketball is not football, surprises are less common. Who knows, one Serbia too sure, with her absences. Who knows … Let’s hope for an emotion, like Barcelona-Milan Euroleague semifinal, perhaps with a different outcome. An extra, behold, an epic match. Let’s dream, away, for these hours.
Vanni Zagnoli
