Italy vs Bosnia: Fontecchio Leads EuroBasket Win

Simone Fontecchio is on fire. And the Italian dance of the Italian dance starts. The blues of the poz also win against Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the qualification, now, is so much. You deserve everyone. But above all to him, Fontecchio. Halfway through the race he had put 21, at the end of the game the total cries 39 (7/10 from 3). Personal and absolute record. It ends 79-96, a concrete result but not exempt from difficulty. Italy had started badly suffering the physicality of the opponents, who suffering with Nurkic. The number of defensive rebounds unbalanced in favor of the Bosniaci for most of the race and over forty points in painting are proof of this. And even if there are tears inside the match (see a second quarter from Russian mountains), only in the third did the blues put back in order. Much thanks to Melli, a beautiful solid one. And let’s put Thompson (14) and Spissu (14), to name the names. Of course, the choice of Bosnia not to play with Nurkic throughout the central part of the race has affected. Italy likes is the one who knows how to suffer. Even the one not precise in defense. But able to put almost one hundred. Spissu: “Achi looks at us, I send him a kiss”. Many times a nothing is enough. They call it confidence, but it is much more complex than that. See Fontecchio: 10 consecutive points in a first quarter which is a rebirth.

wakes up

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While the Bosniaci needed to go under the plan (Nurkic’s grandeur uses it like this, right?), Italy has had more and more solutions. Melli goes without saying, Thomson less shy, Pajola is a joker. And finally Fontecchio. After a 6-0 disadvantage, the Italian alarm clock comes from the Miami guard. On 12-6 it is he who puts the triple that pushes the blues to run stronger. Diouf recovers a show from show. Pajola puts another triple. On +5 (17-21), Bosnia, however, shakes and returns under one point of distance. Despite the errors, they bode well the conclusions from the arch that worked better than other times (3/4 after 10 ‘). But the game is long and in the second quarter the Bosnia-Herzegovina is again there. Even with a smaller quintet, Italy holds the shock of the giants. And the wait is one of the most important characteristics in a competition like the European. Waiting for it to manifest itself, then, with beauty. That of Fontecchio, still him: fake on the right, movement on the left, crushed, and 26-31. Azzurri on +10, the inertia seems obvious. Instead Bosnia begins to win rebounds (and Italy loses two too many balls) and with a partial of 9-0 he puts everything back in a tie. Diouf keeps the blues against Nurkic. In the final Niang from the bezel and the free conquered by Fontecchio after technician report Italy ahead: at the interval 44-40. Marked by the removal of Pozzecco for the sum of technicians, Italy could have been drifted. And when Alibegovic put the triple of 49-46 it was legitimate to think of it.

captain

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And here the value of Melli came out: courageous captain who knows how to give calm and shock. Around him the blues come out despite a more than annoying roberson. Spissu signs the play of the period with a triple more foul and stretches the blue break. Thompson completes the work with a basket and assist for the last triple of Spissu: Italy ahead 72-61 at 30 ‘. With a 7-3 minibreak, Italy secure itself from the calm. It is not so simple. Thompson immediately enters the double figure, while Fontecchio places the triple of +13, touching 31 points, his maximum in blue. It will do more. Spissu Orchestra and serves Diotf for the extension, but Nurkic responds with a series of baskets and shutdown fouls that report Bosnia to -5. At the most delicate moment, Thompson invents a 2+1 and Fontecchio finds the bezel to put Italy back at a safe distance. Bosnia comic to make a little too much. Pajola no: the triple of 77-90 at 2’09 “is a boulder. The one of Fontecchio immediately after is a sentence.