Saturday 25 January 2020. Convincing the field of BSL San Lazzaro, Winning the Torreverde against P.G.S. Welcome, the Under 14 of Gianfranco Lelli e Luca Zanardi fail to pull off the "back to back" in the away match Basketball Loiano 2015, exiting defeated ten lengths, per 64-54, and facing the return journey to Bologna with the knowledge to be still and really on the right track.
Too bad, because "Oranges" they deserved the victory. They outplayed the hosts, have demonstrated once more that growth which is always more concrete and obvious. And the next day, several of them have taken advantage of training conducted by the Land Rover Arena Federico Politi, based on an idea of your Coach, to plunge into the atmosphere of the day in Piazza Azzarita, thanks to the exclusive Fortitudo.
A Loiano, unlike the previous game, They have lacked the shooting percentages, in particular from close range, indeed ravvicinatissima. At least thirty conclusions failures from inside the "smile", the semicircle underneath the basket, including the first seven of the game, When the boys from INVICTUS Academy were loud parties, biting defensively and trying to go away, but without ever being able to find the way to the basket.
Five and a half minutes with the score nailed zero to zero, a fact rather unusual as that 0/7 from under. And of whom took advantage of the hosts, when they managed to start scoring, much to go on the run immediately. There we unlock with a basket of Luca, and then two free throws of Samuele and three Filippo, with Loren to score the last basket of the first quarter, its a 22-9 too heavy.
The first basket of the second period is Tommaso (2007, once again his excellent test with the largest!), so it is Marco find twice the way to the basket, followed by Maxim. Mark the line and three field goals Giacomo, in a second period played and fought Pair, although again with too many shooting errors, and this prevents us from refit, 16-15 the partial and 38-24 the gap interval.
Third period still there to try, proving more on court, but collecting too little in terms of points. The defense holds up well, It becomes our strength, thanks to the contribution of all, among which Stefano, Simone e Viktor. The attack film sees three free throws Sam, a basket in head Luca, Maxim, Loren e Pietro, then one point each of Luca e Maxim, 15-13 the parziae, we end up -16 on the 53-37, yet we never stopped believing and play as a team.
Last ten minutes of the game, there is still a desire to try. And try to go for broke. The defense forces of Loiano players to achieve only 11 points, the attack of "Oranges" marks 17, but above all by the comeback -16 al -6, then stumble back into wrong too many easy shots, that prevent us from carrying out the enterprise. For the first two free throws Tommy follows the basket of Sam, and then two free interspersed with a basket to all the work of Jack, and the last three baskets of action, with in the middle of a free additional Tommy, signed by Luca.
The important thing is not demoralized, the important thing is to continue to engage, the growth is there and regards both the team and individual: play well, read situations, perform in the right way. There had been similar percentages to those of P.G.S won the game. Welcome, We would have exceeded 90 points scored. Too bad, because the boys deserved to see recognized progress made with the two points of victory.
Thanks anyway ... # 3 Thomas Carbone, # 4 Filippo Garuti, # 7 Luca Di Pace, # 13 Loren Logozzo (Cap.), # 15 Simone Marchesini, # 21 max Frasca, # 23 Samuel Sarti, # 30 Stefano Lelli, # 32 Marco De Luca, # 58 James Rocchi, # 75 Pietro Barbieri, # 77 Viktor Gotti.
One final note, the following Tuesday evening: called to help the six 2005 engaged in a trip to Forli become enormously prohibitive, four boys 2006 They responded this. Thanks doubly, to them and their families.
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