Tomorrow the Bertram championship recovery on the field of Virtus Segafredo Bologna. The words of coach Walter De Raffaele
Just over two weeks after the original date, the Bertram Derthona recover tomorrow evening the championship match at home of Virtus Segafredo Bologna. Postponed last October 20th due to the well-known flood in the city of Bologna, the challenge of the fourth round of Serie A Unipol, scheduled at 20 hours to the Unipol Arena in Casalecchio di Reno (BO), has become a “classic” since Derthona rose to the top league, also considering the three playoff series that saw them as opponents in all three post-season appearances of the black and white club. This first episode of the 24/25 season represents a real big match of the tournament, between the Tortona team fourth in the standings and the only other team still undefeated in Serie A together with Trento. Tortona will try to ride the streak of 4 victories between the league and the Champions League – and seven out of eight seasonal games – exactly halfway through the tour de force that is testing the physical reserves of Severini and his teammates, victorious three days ago against Sassari at home and awaited three days after Bologna by another away game in Emilia to go and challenge Reggio Emilia for the seventh round. Virtus, for its part, comes from the over 100 points scored against Treviso (104-97) also on home soil, where it also beat Pistoia in addition to the away victories in Trapani, Venezia and Cremona.
MVP vs BEST ITA The best player overall and the best Italian of the last round of Serie A will meet on the same parquet, based on the results of the voting promoted by Legabasket. The MVP award to Arturs Strautins sealed the sumptuous performance against Sassari of the Latvian forward of the Italian team Bertram, 22 points, 7 rebounds and 8 fouls suffered for 30 of evaluation, the umpteenth proof of his important start to the season. On the other side, the young big man of the Italian national team Momo Diouf earned the other weekly award up for grabs with his new career-record of points with 22.
WHERE TO SEE IT ON TV The race will be broadcast live on DAZN.
STATEMENTS "As I said on the eve of the challenge that was then postponed, I can only repeat myself by saying that Bologna is a complete team, a Euroleague team, with a deep roster in all roles. Compared to last year, they have even added physicality in the guard role, so they are an important opponent who must bring great motivation to us in facing them.”, are the coach's pre-match words De Raffaele. “For both teams, we have to consider the tiredness effect due to the close commitments of this period, but – precisely in this aspect – on our part we must show progress in the mental habit of approaching and facing the rest of the match with aggression even in the case of physical energy not at its maximum”.
