For Italy, the approach to the Pre-Olympic in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has a smile on its face. Or at least it has it for good measure. After the positive test, but with some issues to be resolved, against Georgia, a particularly positive test arrived against Spain in Madrid, on the night theoretically destined to celebrate Marc Gasol and his competitive journey.
If the success against Georgia came in conditions of substantial ability to erode the opponent’s resistance, also taking advantage of a general greater technical quality (beyond their respective larger calibers), things were different against Spain. Ability to make the defense work at different moments of the match, an attack capable of turning and the tactical variable made up of the many qualities of Danilo Gallinari which could prove to be an important theme of the journey to Puerto Rico. It should also be remembered that Italy essentially won the Madrid match in an “all-against” situation, since even some of the refereeing decisions were, so to speak, questionable. But all’s well that ends well.
Gianmarco Pozzecco, towards San Juan, has put together a clear decision: Melli, Polonara and Gallinari as reference forwards. Danilo’s contribution, as we said, could be important: after all, in this phase he could seriously prove to be an atypical 5 different from Melli, which could create many puzzles in the opposing defenses, forced to evolve every time in an attempt to stop two players so different. In a team that will rely heavily on three-point shooting, this dichotomy could make lucky sense.
And it is precisely on the small issue that we need to concentrate the discussion. Nico Mannion, literally revitalized by Varese in the championship after almost everything that could have gone wrong after Tokyo went wrong, confirmed that he has his sights set firmly on next week, and Spissu was no exception, regaining confidence and points under the guidance of Pozzecco, who knows its qualities well and knows how to put them into practice since the distant times of Sassari. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>
To this we must add the chapter linked to Stefano Tonut and John Petrucelli. If the qualities of one are known, a guard who is in the best part of his career and what’s more has all the means to interpret the role in a perfect European key, the other has often been considered less than it should be. Yet in Brescia he plays the role of one of the top three offensive options constantly, depending on the situation. He knows very well that he has a different role here, but his contribution is never lacking. There is a lot of talk about naturalized people, who is and who isn’t. Petrucelli’s situation is not that of the big name: if anything, it is that of a player who is perfectly functional to the objectives of this team. Or, in other words, to his coach’s beliefs.
This Italy’s advantage is also another: for nine twelfths this is the same team that reached the Olympic qualification in the Pionir in Belgrade three years ago. A miracle that still resonates, but which also makes us understand another thing: this is essentially the second chance of a real group. Which lost Simone Fontecchio, Gabriele Procida and Matteo Spagnolo along the way, but which still has interpreters who know what to do with each other. A hope, in short, that lives on. And it passes through Puerto Rico and Lithuania.
2024-06-26 12:00:22
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