The playoffs start, the A2 dream for the Raggisolaris Faenza starts from Puglia. There Tecnoswitch Ruvo di Puglia, second classified in group D, is a long, physical team with many points in their hands. The Apulians in the regular season scored almost 80 points per game thanks to his excellent potential as snipers. Only Roseto in the whole Serie B did better.
Ruvo di Puglia is a historic square of Apulian basketball, which disappeared from the scene in 2012 with the non-registration in the then DNA of the ASD Ruvo Basket Puglia, and returned to B in 2019/20 thanks to Talos, a company restarted by C Gold in the season 2012/13. In the third national championship, Tecnoswitch has always presented formations with excellent potential, but competing in the playoffs only last season, coming out in the quarter-finals.
This year the team of coach Francesco Ponticiello has all the credentials to think big as shown by its player pool. The best scorer is the 2000-class guard Nikola Markovic, a player with 14 average points, followed by Leonardo Ciribeni with 12, a guard who has lived very important seasons in Serie B and A2. Also in the external department there are the playmaker Daniele Merletto and the guard Gianni Cantagalli, another player with the ‘basket always in the barrel’: both travel regularly in double figures. Speed and unpredictability are the weapons of Shaquille Hidalgo, a very good guard at breaking the game with his plays. The guard winger Gian Marco Sbaragli (2003) completes the exterior department.
Under the basket dictate the law Kurt Cassar, Maltese pivot, Riccardo Bartolozzi, Mattia Mastroianni and Thomas Monina, poker of players over two meters in height who well combine physicality with technique.
The people from Faenza arrive at this challenge with very high morale and in the wake of the nine consecutive victories that have earned them the conquest of the playoffs and the seventh final place. Appointment Sunday 15 May, duo at 18.00.
