Brescia routs Pistoia and stays in the lead
Brescia routs Pistoia and stays in the lead
In the game of the twenty-first day of the LBA, Germani Brescia wins 94-87 away at the PalaCarrara with the’Estra Pistoia and remains at the top of the standings pending tomorrow’s commitments of Bologna and Trento.
Not even time to sit in the stands that Pistoia, dragged by a fiery environment, opens the game through a triple from the corner by Forrest, good at capitalizing on an excellent choral action. Germani, however, doesn’t flinch and, raising the volume of the defensive intensity, finds a nonchalant flow of offensive play, which allows the biancoblu, dragged by Della Valle, Bilan and Rivers, to write a partial of 0-14, forcing coach Gasper Okorn to suspend the half. On the return to the parquet, the music doesn’t change: Brescia continues to express its basketball, with Della Valle and Ivanovic further widening the gap, before Kemp and Paschall try to give new life to the white-and-blue colors, moving the home scoreboard. Germani remained polished and applied, keeping their lead ahead at the first buzzer.
The second half, at least in its most embryonic phase, saw a’Estra take the court with a knife between its teeth. Ceron and Kemp, in fact sound the charge, allowing their teammates to bring the discrepancy under the double-digit disadvantage, forcing coach Giuseppe Poeta to call a timeout. Germani’s scoring performance stalls. The guests, net of high-percentage conclusions constructed, do not draw the target and suffer in the rebounding struggle. Pistoia gains confidence and, through the plays of its core of Italians, makes the opponents feel the breath on their necks, rebalancing the match in parity. Here is that Germani, at the juncture of greatest difficulty, pulls out the nails and, with the strength of the collective, signs a counterbreak of 0-10, putting in the bag a treasure of eight points at the long break.
The resumption of hostilitiesà è played on a razor’s edge from the start. Both formations, in fact, struggle in every possession. Germani increased the volume of defensive intensity, with Ivanovic and Rivers denying convenient passing lines for the Tuscan outsides, often cynical in the first half of the game. Della Valle, a real rebus for the Tuscan rearguard, and Bilan, a totem in the basket, lay the foundations for a new Brescian breakaway, with the complicità of Dowe and Burnell, real dynamos coming off the bench. Coach Gasper Okorn opts for a new timeout, hoping to turn things around. Paschall, in a state of grace, and Boglio try to sound the charge, fueling the glimmer of hope for the’Estra, but Brescia, with Dowe and Bilan, stretches to twelve lengths.
The’last quarter è opened by two consecutive triples by Burnell, always ready, accurate and sharp coming off the bench. However, the hosts are far from lowering the white flag, relying on the individual solutions of Saccaggi, generous as few, and the basketball talent of Forrest and Kemp. Germani in the last four minutes of the’match feels the smell of blood, inserts the autopilot and with authority and awareness of its means files the practice.
ESTRA PISTOIA-GERMANI BRESCIA 84-97 (12-26 38-46 62-74)
ESTRA PISTOIA: Della Rosa 3, Saccaggi 10, Forrest 12, Benetti, Cooke 2, Kemp 30, Paschall 16, Ceron 8, Boglio 3, Pinelli ne. Coach: Gasper Okorn.
GERMANI BRESCIA: Ivanovic 8, Della Valle 19, Rivers 21, Mobio 4, Bilan 20, Burnell 16, Dowe 9, Cournooh, Ferrero, Pollini, Tonelli. Coach: Giuseppe Poeta.
REBITTERS: Giovannetti, Bettini, Marziali.
