Bertram gives in in the second half: Virtus wins Game 2
Virtus Segafredo Bologna-Bertram Derthona 91-70
(20-26, 41-35, 72-55)
Scoreboards:
Bologna: Tessitori 10, Cordinier 4, Mannion 10, Belinelli 5, Pajola 5, Alibegovic, Jaiteh 6, Shengelia 13, Hackett 9, Sampson 7, Weems 5, Teodosic 17. Coach Scariolo
Derthona: Mortellaro ne, Wright 7, Cannon 5, Tavernelli, Filloy 10, Mascolo, Cattapan ne, Severini 6, Sanders 5, Daum 13, Cain 6, Macura 18. Coach Ramondino
Defeat for Bertram Derthona in Game 2 of the semi-final: at the Segafredo Arena, the team coached by coach Ramondino gradually gives in to the strength of Virtus after leading in the score for over 15 minutes. The match was decided by the partial produced by the hosts in the third half. Tuesday 31 May at 20.45pm, at the PalaEnergica Paolo Ferraris, the third act of the series.
Bertram gets off to a sprint start and immediately finds great fluidity in attack and escapes to 3-10 after 2'. In the following moments, Virtus returns to contact, before the new extension of the team coached by Ramondino, who leads 20-26 at 10'. In the second half Bologna raises the level of its intensity, limiting Derthona's attack and overtaking in the final minutes of the first half: at half-time the score is 41-35.
Upon returning from the locker rooms, Bertram returned to -2 (45-43) before suffering a 10-0 partial scored by Teodosic, which was the maximum gap in the match (55-43) in the 24th minute. During the half, Virtus punished every attempt by the Lions to return, finding baskets even with a high difficulty coefficient: at the third siren the score was 72-55. In the last quarter Bologna manages the accumulated margin and prevails 91-70.
Thus coach Marco Ramondino at the end of the race: “Big congratulations to Virtus for this deserved and legitimated victory with the growth during the first half, at the beginning of the third quarter and by the contribution made by all the players, even those who had not played in game 1. I believe that the match is had a good impact by doing the right things, then we lost too many balls against their aggression and physicality, which were difficult to sustain. We were frenetic and made bad choices, allowing them to take the pitch well. When the game was open we missed Teodosic too many times and he definitively split the game, taking away any hope of remaining in contact. In everything that happens on the field there is a mix of many components, you have to be good at understanding which ones to intervene in the most predominant way. To sustain this level of competition they must limit errors as much as possible, against teams like Virtus who punish mistakes. Matches like today's are very useful not only in the immediate future but also for the future, if we are good at learning how to be on the pitch at a high level from our great opponents. In the Italian Cup match, in which we didn't have Wright, we went with Daum marking Teodosic to minimize the advantages that he is very good at finding from the pick'n'roll, so having used the quintet with three long men several times during the season, I thought I'd try to increase the physical size of the team by compensating for the gap in the battle in the area.".
