With the official announcement – communicated on Sunday – of the continuation of the relationship with Grant Basile, Basketball Cantù has completed the composition of its package of Italian players.
We refer, of course, to the five seniors who will join the five foreigners to compose the next roster of the water S. Bernardo on his return to Serie A.
Therefore, coach Nicola Brienza (Ri) will have Basile himself, Riccardo Moraschini, Andrea De Nicolao, Leonardo Okeke and the only authentic novelty, that is to say Giordano Bortolani.
Covers all the roles, with Denik Play, the new arrived guard, Morasca Small Versatile wing, the Forte and Leo Centro Baso Ala. In addition, the first four are elements of excellent quality to represent the Italians of a Serie A team. As for Okeke – potentially of the highest level – it will instead be verified on the upper floor.
In short, Italian players in biancoblù jersey present themselves with all the trappings to constitute a solid guarantee from a technical point of view and the ability to know how to keep the field effectively in the top league.
And a couple of them, in the team hypothesis designed by Brienza, will leave in the Quintet: Bortolani as exterior and Basile from “4”.
But the consideration that is subsequently emerges is another: the Brianzolo club was able to compose a tricolor package particularly expensive from an economic point of view. Some opponents, in the same maximum series, the money that Cantù used to ensure the “indigenous” have in fact ended up available for foreigners …
Indirectly, this means that the budget that the Brianzola company can be afforded is truly significant because certainly in these latitudes even with the Americans it will not go to the saving.
Specifically, there will be a couple of bets (and therefore less heavy engagements), and it is normal, but three solid players, already made and certainly impactful. And, consequently, with salaries suitable for the name and level.
The clear demonstration that in the last four years, thanks also to the local sponsors who first have appeared and then fond of the Canturina reality, now the club can afford to propose certain types of contracts.
Situation very different from that of the season that had led to relegation, where there were still many economic problems inherited from the property Gerasimenko and who had required time to be placed and appianati.
It should also be added that compared to the last participation Brianzola, the level of the maximum championship has definitely risen and therefore to live up to the mission (a peaceful salvation, with the possibility of aiming at an average ranking) and proposing competitive immediately there was a need to have your shoulders well covered.
