First Sicilian away match for the Knights who go to Agrigento without a feverish Alessandro Riva, who will arrive only a few minutes before the tap-off, against a Fortitudo without an injured Douvier.
The start is like a diesel engine from the 80s, the first points are from Agrigento with Martini, but after Quinti’s free throw, it takes almost 3 minutes to see a 3-pointer with Querci.
Legnano suffers Fortitudo which reaches 8-1, before Quinti scores from below.
Quinti is unleashed and with his baskets Legnano reaches 13-11, with the match heating up as the minutes pass.
The tie is 13-13 with Mastroianni’s basket, Querci scores again from 3, but the percentages increase and the score consequently.
Chiarastella’s free throws are worth the new Sicilian +7, but the end of the quarter speaks red and white with Oboe and Cizauskas who score the 21-18 in the 10th minute.
When the game resumes, Agrigento tries again to escape at 27-22 with Martini, but Legnano finds the right balance and with Mastroianni and Scali it impacts again at 29-29, before putting its nose ahead at 31-33 with Cizauskas.
The good moment of the Knights is underlined by Stepanovic’s triple of 35-39, before Cizauskas’ final basket of the quarter which sets the half-time score of 37-42.
The beginning of the third period is the best for SAE Scientifica Soevis who also reaches +7 at 45-52 with baskets by Cizauskas, Oboe and Scali.
Here Agrigento begins to increase the physicality and slowly nibbles away some points from the Knights.
Chiarastella, Conti and Zampogna tied at 52-52, which became 52-55 with Scali’s triple on the siren.
The last quarter is grotesque.
Legnano doesn’t score for over 5 minutes, with Agrigento, playing normally, opening a decisive run of 18-0.
When Cizauskas scores the Knights’ first basket of the period, the game has already been over for some time.
The last minutes are not worthy of comment and it’s better this way for everyone.
It ends 80-65.
A match that Legnano played for only three quarters, losing concentration in the last quarter and no longer being incisive, as had happened in the first three quarters of the match.
Resetting and preparing is the imperative for next week when Capo D’Orlando, another Sicilian battleship that is climbing the rankings, will arrive in Legnano.
