Bitter debut for coach De Raffaele on the Tortona bench. Bertam Derthona in fact lost against GeVi Napoli 81 to 76. It’s a shame, because the Piedmontese led in Naples for a good half of the match, before suffering a comeback in the last two periods. Tortona had an excellent start thanks above all to Obasohanma Owens drags Napoli who ends the first quarter leading 16-15. The music changes in the second half with Tortona’s overtaking and attack, only a timeout called by the Neapolitan coach Millinic manages to put the home team back on track, but still trailing 32-25. Napoli recovers definitively in the third quarter, placing the counter-overtaking: now Tortona is 10 down, which becomes 14 in the last quarter. Three consecutive triples by Ross e Candi they bring the Bianconeri back to -1 (77-76) with 24 seconds to go. Brown and icy in the bezel, Ross misses the equalizer shot and Ennis closes the match: Napoli wins 81-76.
The words of De Raffaele
Thus coach Walter De Raffaele at the end of the match: “I think we played a good match for twenty-four, twenty-five minutes, then for five minutes we were in great frenzy and that’s where Napoli’s talent came out and in the end they deservedly won. I have to give credit to the team for having fought until the end, coming back until they had the shot for the equalizer which unfortunately didn’t go in. There are many things to work on, especially the frenzy in doing things: however, I take a lot of positive things about the attitude and the desire to come back twice from a significant disadvantage.”
2023-12-31 22:55:06
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