Basketball Eurocup: Virtus goes with Hackett, Venice ko. Trento also surrenders
Bologna, as in the first leg, won the European derby: second success in a row, eighth of the season. Yet another knockout, the thirteenth out of 14 matches for Molin’s team
Daniel Hackett’s debut and Virtus overtakes Venice. Trento falls (also) in Poland and continues its “black” season in Eurocup.
Slask Breslau-Trento 77-68
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Against Slask Wroclaw comes the thirteenth defeat in fourteen games. The only victory in the group therefore remains the one in the first leg against the Poles. And to say that, despite the bad campaign, tonight’s European match had returned to take on a certain importance after the probable exclusion of the Russians of Lokomotiv Kuban for the well-known extra-basketball events. With a win, Trento could be back in the running for qualification for the next round. The defeat not mathematically the games, but for a team in great crisis, which in 2022 won only one game, even if only avoiding the last place in the group seems today a mirage. Right from the start it was clear that it was not going to be an easy match. The super start of Dziewa (14 points in the first quarter alone) drags the Slask to + 9 (21-12). Trento immediately starts male, but manages to recover with Caroline’s triples. The inputs of Forray and Ladurner give sparkle to a team up to that moment, which manages to close the first quarter with only one possession away (23-20).
The captain and the young South Tyrolean are decisive to allow L’Aquila to reach a draw first and then take the lead (35-40 after Flaccadori’s triple). In the match, however, balance reigns and the Poles manage to recover with the elf Trice. In the middle of the game the result is tied (40-40). Midnight’s triple at the opening seems a good omen, but Trento’s attack gets stuck (only 9 points in the third quarter) and so Slask can try the new escape (56-45). As if that were not enough Caroline has to sit on the bench, burdened by 4 fouls, but the Dolomiti Energia with a blow from the tail manages to shorten to -5 (49-54 a good third quarter). The Poles return to the charge and the archery shots by Caroline and Reynolds are not enough to mend the gap, which has also returned in double figures. The defense from Trentino holds up, but I attack the points, so Slask goes to +12 (71-59). Trento does not have the strength to recover, Slask wins and is a candidate for the next round. (Andrea Orsolin)
Wroclaw Dziewa 25, Trice 21, Kanter 10
Trento Caroline 20, Reynolds 11, Forray 10
March 9, 2022 (change March 9, 2022 | 22:01)
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