Basketball, Serie A results: Tortona, Trento win in the advances of the 23rd

Two advances open the program of the 23rd day: here’s how they went.

Tortona-Naples 83-77
Tortona gives continuity to the results and consolidates the fourth place, overcoming Napoli at home, which continues in the negative spiral despite the arrival on the bench of Maurizio Buscaglia. Little fluidity, a lot of inaccuracy in shooting cost the Azzurri points, the good performances of Rich and Velicka against Derthona without Sanders but with a fabulous Macura (25 points and 7/11 from 3) are not enough. After 3’30 ” the blond American lights up and scores 8 points in 1’30 ” for the 12-11 in the middle of the period. The match remains on par until 17-17 on the 8th minute, in which Velicka and the usual Macura challenge each other to triple. Then Cain and Filloy widen the lead to the new +4 and 1 ‘from the end Macura still puts in his fourth triple.

For him 14 points in 9 ‘and 4/4 from the arc. First quarter 24-19, with more than half points signed by JP Macura The second quarter opens with Daum, equipped with a mask for sinus problems, to put his signature on +8, then Tavernelli is shrewd: he gets two free throws, misses the second and on the rebound slips an excellent triple for the +10. Napoli appears slow and imprecise in the circulation of the ball and not very effective in shooting. And it is precisely from a situation of uncertainty that Derthona maintains very high percentages with a triple from far away from Daum: 36-23 at 4 ‘, for a partial of 12-4, which breaks the game. In the final time, Tortona loses a few balls but Naples is not ready to turn into points, to close 46-35.

After the break, Napoli tries to start again, dragged by Rich (double digits already in the first half) and by a huge triple from Velicka, and approaching in 1’30 ” at -4, but patiently the Derthona at 26 ‘returns to + 13, sealed by the umpteenth triple from Macura, who makes more news when he misses from distance, He closes at 66-55. The last period opens with Filloy’s 4-point game and the game seems closed, but Napoli returns to -5 in the middle of the quarter with a partial 0-12 and Tortona who does not score for 5’30 ” minutes: guests who arrive at -2 but waste many baskets of the possible overtaking: Macura thinks about it at 38 ‘for the tirpla of 76-71 that gives back breath to Derthona and is worth the game.

Tortona: Macura 25, Filloy 14, Cain and Duam 11
Naples 77: Velicka and Rich 15, Zerini 14