Top clash for Bertram, the other undefeated Trieste arrives at PalaEnergica: coach De Raffaele's words
It's the eve of another double home round between the championship and the Champions League for Bertram Derthona. At the PalaEnergica Paolo Ferraris in Casale Monferrato, the game starts tomorrow, Saturday, against Pallacanestro Trieste at 19:20 p.m. for the third day of the Serie A Unipol, continuing on Tuesday at 30:XNUMX p.m. against the Spanish team BAXI Manresa for the second round of Group G of the main European FIBA cup. All this before the three consecutive away games between Virtus Bologna, Trapani and Lisbon.
CHALLENGE BETWEEN UNDEFEATED TEAMS Against Trieste it will be a match between two of the five teams still with full points in the top league. If to start the season Bertram gave itself the perfect week with the trio of victories against Cremona, Chemnitz and Varese, a challenge in which it also set the new record for points scored by Derthona in a Serie A game with 105, for its part the newly promoted Trieste team coached by the American Jamion Christian scored a double coup, beating the Italian champions EA7 Emporio Armani Milano in their debut (84-78) and then conquering the field of the winner of the last Italian Cup, Napoli (83-92).
EX & MILESTONES At home in Trieste there will be the first return as an opponent of Colbey Ross, a playmaker who arrived in Tortona on the eve of last Christmas. On the other side, however, Arturs Strautins will be playing his second game in a row as a former player after the one against Varese given the two championships played in Trieste from 2018 to 2020. Among the statistical curiosities of the challenge is the possibility that the black and white Tommaso Baldasso will break the wall of 1000 points scored in his career in Serie A between the regular season and playoffs: he is 9 short of the goal.
STATEMENTS “Trieste is a newly promoted team only because it comes from A2 but it is certainly not promoted in terms of players”, the analysis of the match by the Juventus coach begins here Walter De Raffaele. "The team's front court, formed by Ross, Markel Brown and Denzel Valentine, is of the highest level, plus they have added experienced players like Jeff Brooks and Jayce Johnson is giving a good hand. It's a team that plays with great enthusiasm, their full points in the standings are well deserved. For our part, victories help us work better, to have confidence, to understand that in any team that has 12 players like us, it can happen to any player to be a protagonist in a game, not in another, to play more, to play less or not to play at all, but it doesn't change our concept which is to grow as a team and to convey the concept of a team that wants to try to compete every game. We have to deal with some ailments, the already known ones of Vital and especially those of Severini who rested in the first practices of the week, so we will see their situation close to the game".
SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN Final rush for the season ticket campaign to see all 16 remaining Bertram home games at a discounted price. It will be possible to purchase the season ticket online on the Vivaticket website until the start of the challenge with Trieste and tomorrow at the PalaEnergica Paolo Ferraris ticket office starting an hour and a half from the start of the game.
CYCLAMEN AGAINST SCLERODERMIA On the occasion of the challenge, Derthona Basket will support GILS, the Italian Group for the Fight against Scleroderma, in raising funds to be donated to scientific research against systemic sclerosis. At the stand set up by the association's volunteers outside the sports hall, you can buy the research cyclamens at a cost of 10 euros per plant. The proceeds will go to support efforts to fight this rare disease whose causes are still unknown and which leads to the progressive development of fibrosis.
