There is “great satisfaction” in the words of coach Antimo Martino after the victory of the Pallacanestro Forlì 2.015 in Cento. “It’s a match won with great personality, managed from start to finish, doing almost perfectly what we had prepared, with great defensive application, following the match plan – the Forlì coach began after the match -. The credit goes to the players, who played the match in the best possible way and who played 40 minutes with the same intensity, never giving up, without giving Cento the chance to get back into the match, except in a few small situations”.
“It’s an important victory – continued Martino -, gained on a difficult field where only Nardò had won. Cento is a team that has an important absolute value and there was great consideration for what they had done up to now. Winning outside home, where the emotional component was important, gives even more value. A praise also to our fans, who supported us until the end. It was the classic perfect match”. Unieuro’s defensive solidity canceled out two of Tramec’s top players, Derrick Marks and Giovanni Tomassini, who closed the evening with 8 and 2 points respectively on the scoresheet when they average 18.8 and 13.8 points: “We had the defensive aspects on which to pay attention are clear – is Martino’s analysis – The aggression towards Marks and Tomassini certainly paid off, but in general we played a game of great attention on the defensive changes, with an important mental attitude”.
“After the match in Pistoia, where we played the opposite of what we would have liked, it’s an important step – continued the coach -. We won as a team and even those who did the least numerically did very well”. Thanks to the contemporary ko of Pistoia, Forlì is the new leaders of the “Red” group: We were first and we are first now, nothing changes. In terms of atmosphere and physical hardness, it was a playoff match. We have to be good and work to keep playing games at this level. It won’t always be easy, but I hope that match by match our solidity will increase so that we are ready for challenges like this. We must have this ambition, but it will always be the pitch that will tell if we work well. The important thing is that there is the mentality and playing this basketball with a completely new group is a great result.”
