Category: basketball

Biancoblù defeated 85-64 by the bianconeri.

The number one of Italian basketball has no doubts: “The boys, the staff and the coach deserve a good seven.”

Superstar Mirotic also employed as small forward. Meanwhile, won the Bottacin Memorial.

Azzurri on the field against Latvia on Thursday, September 7 at 10:45 a.m.

Olimpia Milano’s outfielder commented on the quarterfinal loss to the United States.

The former Barcelona man talked about the factors that convinced him.

The experienced coach spoke after Italy’s heavy defeat to the United States.

“We deserved a little more but that’s sports and we’ll be back next summer, and the summer after that, and the summer after that.”

National team coach: “With any other team we would have made it to the semifinals. We must be proud.”

The star-studded team ran rampant against Pozzecco’s boys.

Bogdanovic decides the first quarter of the World Cup.

“Right now we are around 30 to 40 percent of our chances,” admits the Reyer Venezia coach.

“Rodolfo wanted his autograph,” Denis Marconato recounts just hours before the Manila supershowdown: however, he refused.

“He is a player like any other and as such we have to treat him,” said the Reyer guard.

“I honestly think this is the perfect time in my career to land at Olimpia, to come to a club like this.”

“From the very first day, the boys have been sweating to be here,” stressed the national team coach.

“Nothing is a foregone conclusion,” stresses the FIP president a few hours before the challenge with the Americans.

“In Germany, the focus was all on NBA players,” recalls the former coach.

The FIP president spoke about the match against the USA in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.

Tuesday’s big showdown with Team USA. Orlando’s all-star watched closely.

The confrontation with the States has been missing since the 2006 Japanese World Cup: it was defeated 94-85 in Sapporo. In 1978 in Manila it ended 81-80 for the Azzurri at the Araneta.

Italbasket coach’s words after victory over Puerto Rico that brings the Azzurri back among the world’s top eight teams after a quarter century.

73-57 the score thanks to which Pozzecco’s Azzurri return to the top eight teams in world basketball after 25 years.

Italbasket plays for access to the World Cup quarterfinals against Puerto Rico.

“This team is built to be special.”

The euphoria of the blue clan after the success in the World Cup challenge played in Manila.

The Utah Jazz wing drags the Azzurri, down 16 in the third quarter, to a comeback: it ends 78-76 for the Pozzecco gang, which starts the second group stage of the World Cup in the best possible way.

Beat Sam Massagno 78-72: “I take away discrete pointers.”

“He is aware of the expectations on him but I see him well in training.”

The American basketball player introduced himself as a new player for the Red and White