The years 2015-2016
Il 2015-2016 it's the first year of A2 unique and of the division into two groups that cut Italy from WEST to EAST. Let's try to be ambitious with a veteran under the boards and a kid as point guard: on Luca Garri and Marco Spissu we build a story that a champion like De'mon Brooks and a talent like Davide Reati help to write in fair copy. Third place in the regular season, then a wonderful series and in 5 games we eliminate Trieste to open the doors to the quarter-finals. Brescia arrives and there should be no story. 2-0 for them. But in Casale (where we emigrated and where we will stay for a year....) there is Derthona del Camagna, the one who ultimately wins with the heart. 2-2 and a whole town moves to Cremona where there are 700 of us to celebrate the last act of a memorable season while Brescia respects us, beats us and flies in A1.
The year that follows is a festival of the unknown. Between the disengagement of the Ghisolfi family and the obligation to exile in Casale, the conditions are yet to be discovered and in mid-December, a triple on the siren condemns us to a cruel derby and puts us in the playout zone. We end the calendar year by taking 30 in Treviglio and saying goodbye to Reati who signs in Forlì but we enter the 2017 and the frog becomes Prince again. The second round is a show of 11 victories, with Glenn Cosey and Phil Greene as the black and white dioscuri and a group of Italians who decide to explain to everyone the true meaning of the term GROUP. Ricci, Cucci, Alviti, Sanna, Mascherpa, Garri, Conti…. They also beat Mantua in the first round and give themselves the joy of a quarter-final in which Trieste is simply better than us.
