Mean, concentrated, compact. She’s tough on defense, dominant under the boards, surgical from the arc. Segafredo Bologna demolishes GeVI Napoli at home (75-88) for which it is not enough to wear the white and blue tank top that celebrates Diego Armando Maradona to find the stroke of genius and class that knocks out the league leaders in a sold-out PalaBarbuto who after fifteen minutes understands that no, miracles don’t always succeed. Not at least against this fast and versatile, cold and ferocious Bologna who always know how to wear the right outfit for the occasion, distributing time, minutes and responsibilities to all the players who thus repay Banchi’s choices. A 19-0 run in five minutes in the second quarter relegates the postponement of the fifth day of the championship to an almost academic match.
Stunned, the drumming Napoli of the first days of the championship never finds the key to open a challenge that Virtus first bites and then closes in control. In the evening, the blue Pajola shines (11 points and zero errors, 4 assists and 4 rebounds), the “old man” Belinelli also shines (14), on the other hand Zubcic’s 20 points and Ennis’ 16 come after the games are over and broken.
GeVi Napoli gets off to a quick start, putting their foot down on the accelerator taking advantage of Jaworski’s shot and Owens’ springs who crushes imperiously followed by Zubcic’s triple after four minutes of contest. Banchi does not get upset, Virtus organizes the defense by raising a wall against which the initiatives of Ennis and Sokolowski crash. Bologna responds point by point, finding effective players in Dunston and Shengelia even if the inertia remains in the hands and muscles of the home quintet who put in more energy and intensity. Lever gives the maximum advantage (+5) in the middle of the first quarter, an advantage that Bologna soon cancels with the baskets of a tonic Belinelli and the substitute Pajola, quick on the counterattack and surgical in shooting. When the two coaches begin to give space to the benches, the difference falls relentlessly on the parquet.
The last call from Milicic’s men was a triple from Ennis (22-21) almost at the end of the quarter. In the second Bologna drops the cleaver: they put pressure on the opposing ball carriers, Pullen, Ennis and De Nicolao lose one ball after another, they launch on the counterattack, quickly spin the ball which always arrives in the right hands to shoot from the arc . It is on the defense that Bologna builds the attack, the guests dig a very deep furrow with triples from Smith, Mickey, Dobric and Belinelli and with extensions from Pajola and Abass. Banchi got twenty-five points off the bench, Milicic just two. From 22-21 in five minutes the scoreboard tells a completely different game: 22-40. A stunning partial of 19-0 Virtus closed after 7′ of fasting GeVi by the Polish Jaworski. In the second quarter Napoli scores just six points, Bologna goes to the locker room at +18 (28-46).
The third quarter becomes a shooting of triples, on both sides. Belinelli scores two in a few seconds, without Shengelia’s muzzle Zubcic finds space to pierce the retina imitated by Jaworski and even Pullen who ignite the PalaBarbuto forcing Banchi to time-out, from -20 Napoli goes up to -14 but the ambitions of comeback immediately struck down by a mini run of 5-0 with which the third set ends. Game closed and archived ten minutes early, in the last quarter Banchi distributes his energy thinking about Friday’s match in the Euroleague against Efes.
Results.
Germani Brescia-Dolomiti Energia Trentino 82-90
Banco Sardegna Sassari-Bertram Derthona Tortona 74-94
Givova Scafati Basket-Vanoli Basket Cremona 112-122
EA7 Emporio Armani Milan-Carpegna Pesaro 82-90
Happy Casa Brindisi-Estra Pistoia 72-78
Umana Reyer Venezia-Openjobmetis Varese 102-88
Unahotels Reggio Emilia-NutriBullet Treviso Basket 90-83
GeVi Napoli Basket-Virtus Segafredo Bologna 75-88
Classification.
Umana Reyer Venezia, Virtus Segafredo Bologna 10; Germani Brescia, Dolomiti Energia Trentino, Unahotels Reggio Emilia 8; GeVi Napoli, EA7 Emporio Armani Milan, Bertram Derthona Tortona 6; Givova Scafati, Vanoli Basket Cremona, Carpegna Prosciutto Pesaro 4; Banco di Sardegna Sassari, Openjobmetis Varese Estra Pistoia 2; Nutribullet Treviso, Happy Casa Brindisi 0.
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