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Bertram shows physicality and consistency for 40', against the league leaders Trento comes the end-of-year bang

Bertram shows physicality and consistency for 40', against the league leaders Trento comes the end-of-year bang

Bertram Derthona – Dolomiti Energia Trentino 91-77

(25-16, 44-41, 69-56)

 

Bertram: Zerini ne, Vital 10, Kuhse 13, Candi 6, Farias, Denegri 2, Strautins 8, Baldasso 17, Kamagate 16, Biligha 4, Severini 3, Weems 12. All. De Raffaele.

Trento: Ellis 4, Cale 15, Ford 16, Pecchia 6, Niang 5, Forray 3, Mawugbe 4, Lamb 15, Bayehe 9, Badalau ne. All. Galbiati.

Referees: Lo Guzzo of Pisa, Bartoli of Trieste, Catani of Pescara.

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Bertram Derthona closes 2024 on a high note by imposing a stop on the lone leader Trento. At the PalaEnergica Paolo Ferraris, the team coached by Walter De Raffaele makes the Trentino team fall for the second time in the championship with a score of 91-77, in the challenge of the thirteenth day of the Serie A Unipol. The black and whites excite the almost three thousand spectators of the home stadium by leading the match from start to finish and making their voices heard in the practically one-way second half, for a success with enormous specific weight in view of qualification for the Final Eight with two rounds to go in the first half of the season.

With one absence on each side, the already known Gorham for Tortona, and at the last minute Zukauskas for the guests, Bertram gave warnings already in the first quarter of the excellent afternoon that it would have given itself, starting off in high gear and scoring all of its first five three-pointers (3/3 by Kuhse) and showing a Weems in good form, also author of the highlight of the match with a dunk after flying over a couple of opposing defenders (in the photo). Despite Cale and Lamb using their strong point of the three-point shot to put Trento back to -3 at halftime, 44-41, after having sewn up a +12 for Tortona (33-21 at 13', Kamagate in evidence), the definitive signal of Derthona's victory comes from the first moments of the third period which, combined with the excellent start also in the final fraction, makes the challenge definitively addressed with 7 minutes to go when Baldasso scores the three-pointer for 89-70 that makes the PalaEnergica explode. The Piedmontese winger is the leader with 17 points of a choral offensive performance with four other players in double figures of points, plus two others, Strautins and Candi, who gave the go-ahead to the winning run, also built in defense forcing the second most prolific attack in the championship to never be able to run as it would have liked. In the end there is also the joy of the debut in Serie A for the 2006 class Bruno Farias.

The eighth success, together with Treviso's home defeat by Milan, brings the precious margin of advantage over the ninth place of Treviso and Sassari to 4 points, in addition to the climb to sixth place in the standings taking advantage of Trieste's home defeat against Venice. All this at the dawn of the last two games before the halfway point with the early 2025 challenges against Napoli, scheduled for Saturday 4 January in Campania, and Scafati, with whom the first leg will close on 11 January on home soil.

 

STATEMENTS “It's a great victory, there's no doubt about it, because it came against a great team that deservedly is first in the standings and because it was obtained in a structured way, with a lot of work, work for which I also want to give credit to my staff because they are working really well”, it's coach's comment De Raffaele. “I want to dedicate the success to our fans who were exceptional today too, filling the arena, to our ownership, to Dr. Gavio, I think it gives him satisfaction to win against the top of the class. By our choice – continues the Juventus coach – we have 5 foreigners in the roster, today 4 due to Gorham's absence, it is always said that Italians play little and we are among the few teams that let them play. Baldasso, Biligha, Candi, Denegri, even today they showed that they are valuable players. I am really happy, as I told the players it is a success that did not come by chance but because it is a healthy group, that works, going even beyond its limits that we have anyway. We close the calendar year with a great performance, a 2024 that I consider very positive ".