Reyer Venice, Moraschini and Willis on Sunday in Brindisi as an ex
It will be a Sunday a little more particular than usual that they will experience this weekend Derek Willis And Riccardo Moraschini, protagonists in the recent past with the Happy Casa Brindisi shirt and, precisely for this reason, expected in four days to return as an ex on the PalaPentassuglia parquet.
Before the match valid for the ninth round of Serie A UnipolSai 2022/23, both will be able to embrace coach Frank Vitucci again who, in different years, had the opportunity to lead both of them from the bench allowing him to show off in his game system.
Between the two, in particular, Moraschini was the first to know, in 2018/19, the Veneto coach and the Brindisi reality, a club with which, from a statistical point of view, he lived the best of his 14 seasons in the top division homegrown. With 12.3 points and 3.3 rebounds (career best data) but also 2.8 assists, 1.2 steals and 35% from three-point range, in 33 games between the regular season and the playoffs, the native of Cento was among those who, that year , they put themselves in the spotlight with the blue-and-white tank top, contributing to reaching the playoff quarter-finals and, above all, the Italian Cup final lost against Vanoli Cremona.
On the strength of these results, Moraschini then managed to earn a call from Olimpia Milano, a club for which he played until last year and with which, in 2020/21, he was able to return for the first (and so far only) time as an ex at PalaPentassuglia, a circumstance that Derek Willis has never experienced yet.
The Louisville native’s experience at the Happy Casa is, in fact, much more recent and this, with his farewell at the end of 2021 and the subsequent move to Joventut Badalona, meant that his own path no longer crossed with that of the Apulian club, a team thanks to which Willis got to know Italy and tricolor basketball for the first time and where, with double doubles (10), he played a considerable role in the best season of Vitucci management, that 2020/ 21.
On that occasion, also thanks to the Kentucky Wildcats’ 11 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.6 assists average in 31 Serie A appearances, Brindisi reached the playoff semifinals after a regular season finished in 2nd place with 20 hits, a goal to which the blue-and-whites also matched the semi-finals of the Italian Cup and reaching the second phase of the Basketball Champions League.
Both Willis and Moraschini, therefore, were able to leave a tangible sign in the paths taken by the Happy Casa in recent seasons in Europe and in Italy, a sign that this year the two are trying to leave in a club, Reyer, which will bring back Sunday to taste the warmth of the PalaPentassuglia again and who, having to get back on track after the two straight defeats suffered against Varese and Trento, will force them to face their past with the aim of giving their former fans a displeasure.
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