The 39 -point booty with Bosnia has allowed Simone Fontecchio to climb positions among the best builders in the history of Italbasket. And so he became the best Italian marker at Eurobasket, putting himself behind Bargnani (36), Riva (32) and Gallinari (32), and has become the sixth blue marker in every competition, including friendlies, like the same bank that also holds the first place at an altitude of 46. These are the data, the cold numbers, but we understand where the performance from 39 points is born. Fontecchio is not exactly an individualist, one who creates from dribble. Not surprisingly, of the 7 triples sent almost all of them have been marked in Catch and Shoot. This means having to take rhythm, trusting. And it only happened in the third game, after the horrible one with Greece and the already more positive one with Georgia. A crooked evening can be there, just as we must not consider it a car.
An explanation is perhaps there, in terms of rhythm and trust. Fontecchio in the last season has played 75 NBA games with 16.5 minutes of average use. In the playoffs it has practically never took the field with Detroit. Overall, little, too little for a player who then with Italbasket must play the role of the first violin. It is not a question of NBA, mind you, it is just that a player has to play. It applies to young people as well as for champions or veterans. All the more so if you are a system player. Yes, because precisely for the examination of the triples taken from the exhausts, Fontecchio is not a player who strength much. Of course, against Bosnia he played some more isolation, such as the one after the timeout in the second quarter who saw him take the bottom to go to crush.
But Fontecchio is more than that. He is the rebound that gives in Ricci the triple that lengthens the partial. This is what the ball recovers, leads the transition and then you need Pajola for the triple of the bracket. It is the defender who sacrifices himself for a doubling at the tip (perhaps exaggerated) and then tries to contest the shot from the corner with the Close Out (late, but he tried). So, having taken the rhythm and conquered the trust, the wing of the Miami Heat can only continue to grow in this European. But it is not just a matter of points on the report. The 7 free with Bosnia all came from fouls conquered with aggression, looking for penetration for the via del Canestro. At the most delicate moment of the third quarter, breaking a doubling in transition. Logical that the 39 points make all the difference in this world, but with him Italy has had a +21 of Plus/Minus, without -8.
In the image Simone Fontecchio, photo Credits Italbasket
Giovanni Bocciero
