Marco Bellinelli also gives himself the title of Mvp
The words of Marco Belinelli
The perfect birthday present è one in which you show off a performance – the umpteenth of the season – to be framed. Marco Belinelli (Virtus Segafredo Bologna) wins both the awards for best player and best Italian of the twenty-fourth round of the championship surpassing in the voting Nicolò Melli (EA7 Emporio Armani Milano), D'Angelo Harrison (NutriBullet Treviso) and Davide Denegri (Vanoli Cremona).
“It was a complicated game against a strong team that plays good basketball, but we were really good at imposing ourselves right from the start. We defended well early on, grabbed rebounds and so very good soì. I am happy to have made a performance like this on my birthday, my thought è celebrate this day with my two little girls and my family” these are the words of Marco Belinelli to the microphones of DAZN after the victory of Virtus Segafredo Bologna on the parquet of Germani Brescia.
Marco Belinelli’s numbers in this championship speak for themselves: 14.3 points (second best scorer on the team behind Tornik'and Shengelia, topping with 14.4) shooting 52.3% from two (1.6/3.1), 41.7 percent from three (3.1/7.4) and 93.5 percent at the free-throw line (2.0/2.1); to his prolificacy he added 2.2 assists, 1.7 fouls conceded, 1.5 rebounds, 11.6 rating and +6.2 plus/minus in 21.1 minutes average per game. Mondayì è came the 15th consecutive league game closed in double figures for points scored, the 18th total; for the captain of Virtus Segafredo Bologna this is the first game in the season closed with 100 percent shooting from three with at least 4 attempts, the ninth in which he put up at least 4 triples. The number of assists distributed (4) against Germani Brescia equaled the season high already recorded in the wins with Givova Scafati and Openjobmetis Varese (against both in the first round and in the return); third game instead in which he climbed over 20 in the evaluation figure after 24 with Varese and 22 with Scafati (both in the return round).
