Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste, the arrival of Corey Davis Junior is official

Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste formalizes that it has contracted Corey Davis Junior. After arriving in Trieste yesterday, the player, thanks to the precious collaboration with Pineta del Carso Policlinico Triestino, was subjected to the usual medical examinations this morning and is now available to coach Franco Ciani.

“Flexibility and concreteness – declared the president Mario Ghiacci – These are the two words we used at the beginning of the season to frame the championship that was about to begin. Today we are talking about this: flexibility in managing a delicate situation and concreteness in returning to the market promptly to strengthen the roster with a point guard. Thanks to our team that works in the offices: a great job was done to have the player in Trieste, operational as of today and whom we are confident to have on the field on Monday in Bologna “.

Davis, born in Lafayette (Louisiana) on June 4, 1997, grew up in basketball at Lafayette High School, and then defended the colors of San Jacinto College in Houston (Texas) from 2015 to 2017. After completing his experience at the College the play, 185cm for 86kg today, at the University he plays for the Houston Cougars where he ends the second and final season with an average of 37 ‘on the pitch with 17.0 points and 2.8 assists. In 2019 Davis is ready to land in Europe and specifically in Turkey: he is hired by Afyon Belediye with whom he averages 11.0 points and 2.3 assists in 22 appearances. In the 2020-2021 season Davis confirms his talents in France, at Gravelines, where he proves to be one of the best scorers of the team with 13.5 points per game. He starts the 2021-2022 vintage at Mornar Bar (Montenegro), playing the Alba Liga (Adriatic League) and averaging 9.3 points accompanied by 3.6 assists in 8 appearances, before choosing Trieste to try to make his mark also in Italy .

The coach of Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste Franco Ciani said about the new arrival: “He is a player with remarkable athleticism and an interesting physicality for the role. He combines the ability to attack with changes of pace with a good perimeter danger as he demonstrated above all at the College and in his season in France. In addition, Davis has a good defensive attitude, we trust that the player through this last element added to his offensive danger and the desire to involve his teammates, can give an additional dimension to our game system “.