Sensational in Vigevano, in the championship it is no stranger than S. Bernardo lost (89-85) and must lick their wounds for what the consequences are, especially in the standings. Bad night and many, maybe too many, points collected: it can only end like this.
Basile’s 26 points are not enough, but he made a lot of mistakes especially on the foul line.
The game report talks about a game that was almost controlled by Vigevano, who went right away and ended the first quarter with his nose in front: 17-13.
S. Bernardo gave themselves a boost in the second period, as Brienza kept the team awake with substitutions and Basile began to gain confidence in the basket. But at halftime, Elachem was ahead, even if only by one point: 42-41.
Cantù came out of the locker room looking terrible. The expressions on the bodies and faces of the players are not the same as those that allowed them to return to Vigevano. In fact, the hosts left the score: 67-58 at the last interval.
Cantù, dragged by a stratospheric Basile, saw the light in the 35th minute: the American’s twenty-fourth point and 71-69. In practice, an overtime starts here. The overtaking was signed by Valentini with a three-pointer and S. Bernardo started to defend more strongly, although it made some errors in the attack.
The inertia changed after 5 points in a row from Mack (76-72), that the building turned into bedlam again: with 2’43” to go, once again Cantù had to chase – again. Brienza competed with Moraschini in place of Baldi Rossi as “4” and with De Nicolao, Valentini, Piccoli and Basile.
The 5 points from Ricky himself are the ones that establish the new overtaking (76-77), even if Mack doesn’t win it and first scores three and then scores 2 points and not the free throw of the suspected foul by De. Nicolao: 81-77 1′ from the end. Oduro’s basket made it all 83-77 with 29″ left.
S. Bernardo tried, but not night. And the loss was shocking.