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Basket Serie A2
Best in the field for the rossoblù Martinoni, author of 14 points and 7 rebounds
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Novipiù fails to close a match that at half-time seemed decidedly directed towards the rossoblù colors and suffers the final super minute of Davide Pascolo, author of a superlative performance with 22 points, 13 rebounds and 31 evaluation. Monferrato Basket enters the field with the right conviction, finding a series of triples in the first quarter. In the second fraction the escape attempted by coach Valentini’s boys fails, stopped by a rebounding supremacy of the Pascolo-Skeens duo, which turns into many second shots. In the second half the score changes: Piacenza without ever forcing moves forward, the Novipiù attack loses brilliance. Even the UCC fails to find the decisive draw: in the final minutes the men of experience, Martinoni, Formenti, Redivo and Pascolo, take the chair. With 5 points in the last minute to decide the match is the long of coach Salieri.
Coach Valentini confirms his debut quintet by deploying Ellis, Redivo, Formenti, Carver and captain Martinoni at the “PalaBanca” in Piacenza. First minutes with very cold hands for both teams; after almost 3 minutes of play, Redivo unlocks the Novipiù from behind the arch, leading the Piedmontese who had just suffered the support of Pascolo’s solo basket. With the defenses lined up, the two teams struggle to find good points; Carver in three consecutive actions invents an assist man for Martinoni, tows in defense and returns to attack by winning two attempts from the line for an equal 6 to 5 ‘. Beautiful duel between Pascolo and Martinoni, two authentic lovers of post movements. Monferrato looks for fresh strength from the bench by deploying Leggio, Ghirlanda and Valentini while coach Salieri keeps the rotations to a minimum in the first quarter, with only Querci to be called from the bench. The two consecutive triples from the corner by Formenti and Ghirlanda give Novipiù a momentary overtaking (13-14 at 9 ‘). Gianmarco Leggio also signs up for the triples joust, setting the score of the first fraction at 14-17. In the first quarter, Novipiù scored only one two-pointer, relying on 4 triples. Without Ellis in the field the UCC doubles Redivo in dribble, but the special treatment does not have the desired effects and the number 12 in the rossoblù jersey finds the triple of +6. Piacenza attacks quickly and often with little precision, Martinoni talks to Ellis in wonder and finds three consecutive baskets in the middle of the second quarter. A distracted Novipiù overturned gives Assigeco many second chances; Skeens dominates and keeps the hosts in the wake of the rossoblùs (26-29 at 17 ‘). Varaschin throws himself on Leggio stopping in an unsportsmanlike manner: Monferrato Basket takes advantage of the combined penalty of the UCC to reach +5. After two quarters the Novipiù leads 29-34. At half-time Pascolo is in double double (10 points and 10 rebounds) while Skeens has gained 11 rebounds overall: the two longs of the red-white-blue have, alone, captured more balls in the air than the whole Novipiù.
Piacenza starts the second half with another intensity; Gajic brings Assigeco back forward, Martinoni replies immediately finding the eleventh point of his evening (37-38 at 23 ‘). Problems of fouls for the directors of Novipiù. Pasture by three, openly challenged to shoot and Sabatini with a support after an easy run to the basket bring Assigeco to +4; coach Valentini understands the moment and calls him to the bench. Monferrato Basket has gone out of action: it takes almost 5 minutes for coach Valentini’s attack to find two points with Leggio. Piacenza patiently moved forward: Gajic’s triple sent the teams to the last mini-interval at 52-44. Sabatini pushes Novipiù back with a triple at the beginning of the last quarter: Varaschin tows Castellino, not very convinced in looking for the basket. Lucio Redivo finds the triple of 55-49 and on the overturning in front of the Monferrato Basket defends for all 24 ” without conceding the shot. The game is now played on the nerves and intensity, with very confusing actions: Pascolo finds points of solidity from the painted, Ellis flies very light taking a few seconds to go to the basket from the throw-in. At 5 ‘from the end Querci commits an ingenuity by hitting Redivo with a movement deemed unsportsmanlike; the Argentine capitalizes on the opportunity with 4 points scored (59-56). Still a show on the Ellis-Martinoni axis, which allows the rossoblù captain to support his 14th point of the match. Many mistakes in the last minutes, with the tension playing tricks in the shooting phase. Skeens from the line brings Piacenza up +2 to 1’15 ” from the siren: Martinoni and Leggio do not manage the ball in the best possible way in the painting, Pascolo punishes Novipiù with a magic. Formenti, glacial, finds the triple of 62-61; on the overturning Pascolo replies with the same coin. With 9 ” on the clock, coach Valentini’s scheme provides for the ball to Redivo, who, after shooting, finds only the second iron. It ends 65-61.
Four Novipiù players who finish the match of the “PalaBanca” in double figures; Leggio closed a non-positive performance in double figures, with many shooting errors (2/8 from three). Redivo also closes with 14 points but very low percentages (2/7 from two and 2/9 from three). Formenti scores 13 quality points, one less than Martinoni, the best in the field of his. The team of coach Valentini has made 35% of the shots attempted (8/26 from behind the arc). At the interval Novipiù had transformed 37% of the attempts with 6/13 from three and 5/17 from the area; Piacenza had attacked with great imprecision, with a conversion rate of 27.5%. The key to the match is the rebounding presence: Novipiù won 35 rebounds overall, Piacenza 52 (of which 20 in attack)
UCC ASSIGECO PIACENZA – NOVIPIU ‘MONFERRATO BASKETBALL 65-61 (14-17; 29-34; 52-44)
ASSIGECO PIACENZA: Pascolo 22 (8/13, 2/5), Sabatini 13 (3/9, 1/9), Gajic 10 (1/5, 2/5), Skeens 7 (2/9), Querci 6 (2/4 from three), Miaschi 6 (1/4, 1/6), Varaschin 1 (0/3), Soviero, Franceschi, Joksimovic and Gherardini in All. S. Salieri
NOVIPIU ‘MONFERRATO BASKETBALL: Redivo 14 (2/7, 2/9), Martinoni 14 (6/10, 0/1), Formenti 13 (2/4, 3/5), Lectern 10 (1/3, 2/8), Ghirlanda 7 (2/3, 1/2), Ellis 2 (1/2), Carver 1 (0/4), Castellino (0/2), Poom (0/1, 0/1), Luca Valentini. Apples in Annex A. Valentini.
