Brienza on Changing the Outcome | [Topic of Post]

Very important crossroads, for a thousand reasons, for the S.Bernardo Cantù. Tomorrow at 7pm Tortona arrives, a first-tier team and, for some seasons, permanently at the top of the Serie A table. Cantù has just returned from six consecutive defeats, no one can say they are safe. And it is very likely that the match against the Piedmontese will be a test for staff and players.

Yesterday, there was no press conference from coach Nicola Brienza, but his statements were recorded on the official Pallacanestro Cantù website and on social profiles. Low profile, also to keep everyone focused on the match. Brienza, in presenting the match, immediately made things and the type of opponent clear. A team which, not surprisingly, is only 4 points from the top and which travels with a record of 9 wins and 4 defeats, tied with Milan and Venice on 18 points: «We will face a very strong team at home, which is having an important championship and has a roster of great value and quality».

A strong, well-established collective that is experiencing these years in Serie A on the wave of enthusiasm and that plays in a brand new building, inaugurated a few months ago. And which, like all great teams, can count on some key players. Above all, Christian Vital, an authentic striker: «Tortona can count on the best scorer in the championship: Vital, who has the ability to create many solutions for himself and to influence the defenses thanks to his talent, thus opening spaces for his teammates too». But he is certainly not the only high-level player: «It is a team with many arrows in its bow, given that Hubb is also a point guard who last year played in the Champions League Final Four, just as their starting center Olejniczak is also a very impactful player».

We will therefore need a great Cantù, with more personality and fewer blackouts than the version staged in the defeat against Napoli.

The return to Desio, blessed as always, can give the necessary push to play a more vigorous match. Furthermore, the roster is complete and there are no reported problems of any kind on a physical level: «As far as we are concerned, we are coming off a good week of work, in which everyone put in a great physical and mental effort to try to take a step forward and eliminate the mistakes. We obviously count on having on our side, as was the case in the last two matches played in Desio, the great energy that our crowd is able to give, to try to repeat the performances made against Virtus and Milan, obviously hoping however to change the final result.” Two examples that are not by chance: Cantù had played two excellent matches, but the decisive push for the victory was missing. The one that will be useful at all costs tomorrow evening.