Robert Johnson, born in 1995 and originally from Richmond in Virginia, also arrived at the court of coach Marco Sodini. Johnson took his first steps in the world of the ball in wedges with the colors of the Indiana Hoosiers where he immediately stood out.
With the same team he won 5 NCAA titles. His other significant experiences are the NBA Summer League with the Atlanta Hawks, the G. League with the Wisconsin Herd affiliated with the Milwaukee Bucks. It then moves on to Poland with the colors of Dabrowka Gornicza, and to Turkey with Fethiye Belediyw Spor.
Last season, in the match against the reigning champions of the Efes crescent country and winners of the last edition of the Euroleague, Johnson broke his record by signing 31 points. Canturino technical director Fabrizio Frates defines him as “a playguard with important athleticism and excellent vision of the game, raised in Indiana University and with a consistent high level European experience”.
The roster of the city of furniture, meanwhile, has been included for the 2021-22 season in the green group of the A2 from where it expects to return as soon as possible to the category that belongs to it for its coat of arms and history. The canturini will have to contend with Biella Basketball, Junior Basket Casale Monferrato, Orlandina Basket, Mantua Basketball, Urania Milan, Orzinuovi Basketball, Bakery Piacenza, Ucc Piacenza, Pistoia Basket 2000, Trapani Basketball, Blu Basket Treviglio, Basket Turin and Amici Pallacanestro Udine. The canturino neocoach ex Orlandina Marco Sodini spoke of a “composition almost announced with a logistically advantageous grouping”.
And he added that the club’s goal is “to be able to play basketball in front of people, so that we can show them our basketball to entertain them”. President Roberto Allevi added: “we will have to face every opponent with the utmost commitment, ours is a team set up following the instructions of the technical staff who must aim decisively at promotion”.
