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BASKETBALL TRIESTE vs. VANOLI CREMONA LIVE TEXT
2Q LIVE – Poser’s third foul after a few seconds. After a second and a long pointless instant replay, we’re back in the game. With 8’48” Jones sent Johnson 1/2 to the line. Cremona missed two consecutive shots, Brooks scored from an offensive rebound with 7’56” 26-17. Johnson blocked Zampini in the 13th minute. Lacey on penetration found two free throws that were 2/2. One loss each for Brooks and Lacey, then with a 6’14” bomb by Uthoff +10. Zampini falls short, Ross responds quickly. Owens scores in the area with a 5’30”. Then he went to the bank. Free for Brooks 33-23 and Dreznjak’s triple with no score. With 3’56” he reached Uthoff’s third triple of the night and Cavina called timeout again 36-26 with 3’57”.
1Q LIVE – Valentine scored the first two points of the game in the first minute, after stopping Owens on defense 2-0. Brooks doubled the lead at 7’50”. Willis found two 2/2 free throws, Cremona also started. Johnson grabbed two offensive rebounds, and in the second he made it 6-2. Trieste defended well, Johnson lost the ball 24 “Then the restart. Davis lost, the crowd mocked him. Valentine extends with 5’38”, Davis cuts into the area and score 8-4 in the 5th minute. Two free throws from Johnson’s missed shot for Deangeli 10-4. Dreznjak missed the dunk, and on the other side Brooks extended from in the middle 12-4 Cavina timeout On the return, Valentine corrected his mistake, Poser shortened to 3’30” 14-6. Johnson grabbed the eighth rebound of Valentine’s three, scored and was fouled. He missed the free throw, Uthoff took the rebound and made it 18-6. This time with Nikolic’s 2’25” dunk already, and then conceded an encore after the turnover of 18-10. In 9′ Lacey scored a triple again in transition, Christian’s timeout comes to 18-13 with 1’34”. Free for Candussi and meanwhile Davis gets a technical. Ruzzier scored on a free throw, Candussi ended his 1/2 20-13 at 1’15”. Poser scores inside the area, Ross unloaded for Urhoff’s triple, Nikolic penetrated as time expired, the foul at 0 . 2″ was confirmed on instant replay in favor of Poser 2/2. At 10′ 23-17.
Saturday’s preview of the twelfth day of the Serie A championship on 21 December see Pallacanestro Trieste, after the victory in Bologna, host Vanoli Basket Cremona, fresh from the knockout in Treviso. Where to play: at PalaRubini in Trieste with tap-off at 8:30 pm. Where to see it on TV: live streaming DAZN and Eurosport 1. Referees: Guido Giovannetti, Gabriele Bettini, Simone Patti. Updates with live text on planetabasket.com
TOP EVENTS – There have been 7 regular season games and 4 playoffs in previous games between the clubs, with the Giulians leading 6-5 overall and 5-2 in head-to-head home matches . Trieste lost at home against Cremona in Game 4 of the quarter-finals of the 2018/19 season playoffs. In that case the series was won by Vanoli 3-1.
THE ABSENTS – Markel Brown is out of Pallacanestro Trieste due to a knee problem.
THE EX – Michele Ruzzier played in Pallacanestro Trieste, which was in Cremona for three seasons (from 2017/18 to 2019/20 season), averaging 6.8 points and 2.5 assists and winning in the 2019 Italian Cup of Vanoli Basket Cremona Corey Davis, who will be in Trieste in the 2021/22 years (arriving in December 2021) and 2022/23, scored 12.4 points and 4.3 assists per game in 46 games in Serie A.