L’Anterior Energy with a good team performance, bringing five players into double figures, he won the match against Bergamo with the final score of 82-71. The neroverdi of Coach De Nicolao tighten the shirts in defense in the decisive third quarter, dominating the entire match in rebounds (54 to 37), and being led by a Captain Schiavon who, with five baskets from the arc, proves to be one of the keys to unhinging the defense in the opposing zone.
Since the tap-off Bergamo immediately places the zone defense in a constant manner, going to challenge Antenore’s shooting percentages. The attacks of the two teams have a hard time finding the basket but the black and greens still manage to carry on with Cecchinato’s bomb that sets the score at 12-4 in the middle of the quarter. Bergamo relies on Manenti, Padua on the two consecutive triples by captain Schiavon who send Coach De Nicolao’s team up to eleven (20-9) before the break guest who fixes the score on 20-16 at the end of the quarter.
Antenore starts the second quarter convinced and, thanks to baskets from Schiavon, Marangon and Francesco De Nicolao, gets up to the plus ten (26-16) forcing the Lombards into a timeout. Virtus continues to attack continuously and with six consecutive points from Michele Ferrari manages to keep the gap in the score above ten lengths.
Bergamo proves to be mentally solid: with Rota and Isotta they bring themselves back in a game that thrives on tears from one side to the other. Osellieri finds five points in a row, with a very important triple, for a Virtus that continues to pierce the defense in the away zone, closing at the interval with two forays signed by Paolin and, once again, by a wild Osellieri who registers 41 -30 on the siren.
Returning from the long break, both teams warm their hands to the shot: Simoncelli and Sodero respond immediately to Cecchinato’s triple before Francesco De Nicolao puts the break on the scoresheet, which he himself closes with a bomb that brings the neroverdi to maximum advantage ( 51-37). The two teams continue to target from beyond the arc: Federico Schiavon is really surgical and puts in another two, Francesco De Nicolao with the coast to coast 4′ from the end of the quarter he rewrites the maximum at sixteen lengths. The black and greens also dominate on the rebound and continue to push on the accelerator: Lusvarghi makes his physicality and bomb feel under the basket Ike Ihedioha closes the quarter on 70-53.
In the last 10′ Bergamo tries to throw his heart over the obstacle but Antenore manages to close well in defense, forcing the guests into difficult shots and managing to maintain a safety margin. Captain Schiavon finds the fifth triple of his evening who writes the plus twenty and tastes like a technical knockout for the Lombards. In the last minutes there was glory for Osellieri who found double digits in the points scored item, while the away team managed to make the passive less bitter by closing the match with a score of 82-71.
Coach’s voice
“Today a great defensive performance despite a difficult first half in attack, in which we lost a few balls too many. – commented at the end of the game coach of Virtus Basket Padova, Riccardo De Nicolao – Overall a good team performance in which we managed to go even higher than twenty, then being able to manage the final.”
ANTENOR ENERGY 82 – BERGAMO BASKETBALL 71
ANTENOR ENERGY VIRTUS PADUA
Schiavon 19 (2/4, 5/9), Ferrari 12 (5/9, 0/0), De Nicolao 11 (4/5, 1/3), Osellieri 11 (4/4, 1/1), Cecchinato 10 (1/2, 2/9), Ihedioha 7 (2/8, 1/3), Paolin 7 (3/6, 0/4), Lusvarghi 3 (1/5, 0/0), Marangon 2 ( 1/2, 0/0), Ciadini 0 (0/0, 0/0), Bedin 0 (0/2, 0/0), Padovani 0 (0/0, 0/0)
BERGAMO BASKET 2014
Isotta 22 (7/15, 1/2), Sodero 13 (2/4, 2/10), Genovese 11 (1/4, 3/8), Simoncelli 10 (1/2, 2/4), Manenti 10 (3/8, 1/1), Rota 3 (0/1, 1/3), Cagliani 2 (1/2, 0/1), Cane 0 (0/2, 0/0), Morelli 0 (0 /1, 0/0), Piccinni 0 (0/0, 0/0), Dembele 0 (0/0, 0/0), Cagliani 0 (0/0, 0/0)
