Germani Brescia beats Virtus Segafredo Bologna in the final of the Frecciarossa Final Eight 2023 and wins the first Italian Cup in its history. After a bomb from Gabriel and support from Odiase, the Teodosic-Shengelia axis ignites Segafredo, which then replies blow by blow to Della Valle’s initiatives from distance (9-12). Thanks to Cournooh and Della Valle, Germani leveled up even reaching +6, before Ojeleye from rebounding in attack brought everything back into balance (11-15). Towards the end of the quarter, Burns and Mickey exchange blows from the line, before Belinelli from the line brings Segafredo back to 16-17. In the second quarter, Akele and Petrucelli try to stop a wild Belinelli from long range, however keeping the balance at 24-24. Subsequently, Della Valle continues to load Germani on his shoulders, Burns steals on the counterattack, detaching Weems and his companions by a minimum (27-31). At the end of the half, Burns places a very heavy bomb and then Petrucelli, between free throws scored and tap-ins at the siren’s edge, launches the visitor’s stretch up to +10 of the long interval (30-40 after 20′).
Sprint start in the second half for Germani, given that Della Valle from long range and the usual energy of Moss sign the maximum lead on +15, before Teodosic from the line and Hackett’s fade-aways shorten it to 36-47. Thanks to Cournooh and Petrucelli’s bombs, as well as Odiase’s three-point game of +17, Brescia takes off but Virtus doesn’t give up, finding Mickey for a dunk and Hackett for the bomb of 47-59. At the end of the period, it was Belinelli who led the black and white recovery together with the physicality of Ojeleye, shortening in the 30th minute to 51-61.
The Bianconeri’s ascent continues in the last quarter, when, after a bomb from Massinburg, Belinelli scores in penetration, from three points and supporting the -4 in transition just over 6 minutes from the end. Afterwards, Della Valle scores with the clock stopped, Belinelli responds with a crazy triple and then Nikolic signs the 63-68. The match leveled up further in the final minutes with Shengelia and Massinburg exchanging a couple of good driving baskets, Belinelli making no mistakes from long range and then Della Valle beat Hackett 71-72 after Shengelia’s tap-in at 3 ‘ from the term. Della Valle again, later, places a full possession between the teams in penetration, Shengelia and Belinelli miss the opportunity to hang up and then Petrucelli signs the 71-76 with the clock stopped with 120” to play. Della Valle then takes care of replying to Mickey and finally a penetration by Massinburg seals the white and blue success. It ends 76-84.
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