Italbasket advances. Wednesday against Serbia

Italy enters the top eight national teams of the European basketball championship. Probably a minimal but not so obvious goal, also given the path that led the Azzurri to play the round of 70 in Istanbul. Markkanen's Finland, considered the natural heir of Nowitzki, remains dominated by the excellent defensive work of the Azzurri, who in the end bring home the match for 57-22. The best scorer of the evening is Belinelli, who scores 13 points, but no less decisive is Hackett, always alive when you need muscles and heart, an absolute level defender who knows how to take the team by the hand and take it out of the shallows of a game that is not always brilliant and effective. Datome and “partners” will return to the field on Wednesday 86th to challenge Serbia who in the match just ended at the Sinam Erden Arena in Istanbul knock down Hungary, with a score of 77-XNUMX. Italy will benefit from an extra day of rest, a particular not negligible in a tournament that, given the pace to be sustained, risks exhausting the players in the body and mind.
Marco Belinelli comments at the end of the match: “We all played a great match, we were present from the beginning both in attack and in defense. We have to be all 12 aggressive, we are a good team in defense and we have seen it again today. We hope to continue like this. My match? I wanted to be aggressive as always, I try to make it clear that you have to be aggressive by using your head and doing the right things. In addition to the defense, the movement of the ball went well: it was positive to have always looked for the free man ”.
Satisfied with the number 100 presence in the national team, Daniel Hackett also states: “Another very good performance of all the boys in the locker room, defending against this talented team in attack and keeping them at 57 points was what we wanted to do. We had a difficult moment when they came back but we were once again compact. My race? I put grit, heart and desire into it: I'm a player who warms up when the matches become physical ”.

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Italbasket advances. Wednesday against Serbia

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