Supercup, Ettore Messina warns against outsiders

“Tortona and Sassari might have something more in terms of solidity.”

Not even time to file away the Eurobasket 2022 kermesse, closed with the affirmation of Sergio Scariolo’s Spain, and in any case harbinger of very positive indications for Gianmarco Pozzecco’s Italbasket, that it is immediately time to award the first seasonal trophy in Italy.

In fact, the Supercoppa is being held in Brescia, which will see Olimpia Milano and Virtus Bologna compete in the two semifinals on one side and Derthona Tortona and Dinamo Sassari on the other.

In the ambit of a pre-season conditioned by the many national team absences, Ettore Messina has had very little time to prepare for the challenge to last year’s championship final rival. His concern emerges well from the words released on the eve of the match against the ‘Black Vu’.

“We face the Super Cup after a preseason conditioned by the absences of national team members and by injuries of players we would have liked to see on the court from the start and will not be available even in Brescia. However, we have confidence because of the good things the players employed have shown both in attitude and performance,” he began.

“Everyone talks about our game against Bologna, but the truth is that having been able to train almost full, Tortona and Sassari, protagonists of the other semifinal, might have something more in terms of solidity,” he concluded.