Final Eight Coppa Italia: Brescia also goes down, Napoli in semifinals
Final Eight Coppa Italia: Brescia also goes down, Napoli in semifinals
Another surprise in the’last quarterfinal of the Final Eight of the Italian Cup at the Inalpi Arena in Turin: after Virtus Bologna, finalist last year, also Germani Brescia holder of the trophy and leader of the regular season is beaten 80-74 by Generazione Vincente Basket Napoli.
The’start è from horror for Brescia that cashes a 0-7 and then it gets on the’8-17, the first quarter closes on 19-11 for the Campani that at the’beginning of the second also go on +12 (26-14), then suffer a partial of 10-0 that makes the league leader get back in the game.
At the’long halftime the score è of 34-30 for Naples, which in the third quarter definitely stretches to +16, 59-43. We face the last ten minutes at 61-46, in the last quarter the leading team recovers to -4 with 34 seconds left but Petrucelli with 10 seconds to the buzzer gets the ball stolen by Markel Brown who then scores the two decisive free throws.
Brown finishes with 19 points but for Igor Milicic’s team, which will now face Unahotels Reggio Emilia in the semifinals, Jacob Pullen does better by putting up 25. For Alessandro Magro’s team there are 19 points for Kenny Gabriel.
