Basketball Serie A, Playoff Game 2: Bologna-Tortona 91-70

VIRTUS BOLOGNA-TORTONA 91-70
Friday Belinelli, Sunday Teodosic. The weekend in Bologna is marked by its two top players. The Serbian playmaker gives 2-0 to the Italian champions with a third quarter as a phenomenon. Thus Virtus earns the first match ball to access the final. Coach Scariolo tweaks the first quintet of race-1 by inserting Pajola and Cordinier and sends the negative Hervey to the stands while his colleague Ramondino confirms his Magnificent 5s.

The match

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You can immediately see that Tortona is not wearing the negative dross of the knockout in the comeback of 48 hours earlier. The freshman moves the ball better and triggers Daum, more incisive than the previous game, who throws the 3-10 winger. Shengelia mends the first disadvantage also caused by Teodosic’s 4 turnovers, an unusual and perhaps historic event. Enter Belinelli, prodigious match winner of the 1-0 Bolognese, but he does not ignite immediately. Tortona floats in front using the many mistakes of the Italian champions: 20-26 at 10 ‘. The Virtus bench, however, is very rich and there are players who are looking for redemption like Mannion. His unexpected entrance shakes Bologna. The “Red Mamba” produces 5 points and in the meantime the defense of the hosts who keep the Tortona attack fasted goes up. Tessitori also turns out to be a useful change, his overtaking on 29-28, from here Virtus extends with the returns of Shengelia and Teodosic who returns to King Milos: partial 15-2, good for the internal +8 (39-31) . Tortona also throws away many balls but is good at staying in contact when everything seems to be going badly and on the siren she finds from Macura, blocked on Alibegovic by 3 and sprinted on the counterattack, the basket that fixes the 41-35 of the break. Bologna ahead turning all 5 plays (Hackett so-so) but Tortona is always alive even though he shoots with 27% in action.

Game over

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Upon returning to the field, Tortona fires all his shots: Daum and Sanders from three arrive at -2 (45-43) but here Teodosic decides to take the stage: 8 stitches and great feeling with Shengelia. The Serbian-Georgian axis makes quality and quantity by signing a 10-0 that distances Tortona. And on the third siren Sampson’s +17 arrives, at 72-55, who scrolls through the credits with still 10 ‘to play. In the last period Bologna rises to +22 with Mannion returning to put more minutes and points in his engine. The 2-0 is served, Tortona will try on Tuesday in his hermitage in Casale to remain in a series that seems to have been written.
Virtus: Teodosic 17, Shengelia 13, Mannion 10, Weavers 10
Tortona: Macura 18, Daum 13, Filloy 10