SERIES B, BITTER DEBUT FOR LUISS ROMA
An unequal challenge: on one side a stratospheric team, the home team, on the other a human one, the guest team. It’s not difficult to guess who got the two points at the end of a game that lasted just over a quarter. Net of LUISS’s difficulties and errors, which are certainly understandable at the start of the season, Roseto played a perfect match and this is no coincidence. +18, +31, +41 the margins of the Abruzzo team in the first three official matches (the first two of the Super Cup, which they won) against Montecatini and Pielle Livorno who, unlike LUISS, are teams built to win the championship.
After the necessary contextualization of a defeat with a heavy deficit, the match has very little to tell other than the crazy averages of the hosts who scored from every position (26 out of 30 from 2 and 14 out of 28 from 3). Honestly, no team at the moment can compete against this Roseto, but the championship lasts thirty-eight races and we are only at the first.
In the first quarter the hosts immediately started strong, 8-1, and LUISS made a bit of a mess in offensive possessions. Pugliatti scores the first long-range baskets, then Fallucca for the guest’s first lead (13-14 at 6′), but a strong Donadoni sets the score at 27-22.
The Abruzzo team also pushed forward at the start of the second half, played at a frenetic pace, LUISS struggled just before the break due to Dellosto’s counterattacks and Traini’s triples which punished every imperfection of the Capitoline defense (57-35 at 20′).
In the second half the traveling team soon raised the white flag and Roseto broke through the hundred point barrier just after the start of the last half, taking his foot off the accelerator well before the final siren.
“It was a baptism of fire for us – declared coach Andrea Paccariè at the end of the match -. At the moment Roseto has no rivals, and last week it proved it by clearly beating other well-equipped teams in our group. I am convinced that we played our game for what we can offer at the moment, also taking into account that it is the first official match and we have five twenty-year-olds who are making their debuts in this championship. We must certainly accelerate our growth and adaptation process, but the championship is long.”
Liofilchem Roseto – Luiss Roma 108-67 (27-22, 30-13, 30-11, 21-21)
Liofilchem Roseto: Alessio Donadoni 20 (7/7, 2/4), Lukas Aukstikalnis 15 (1/1, 4/6), Nicolo Dellosto 14 (1/2, 4/5), Kiryl Tsetserukou 12 (5/5, 0/0), Vincenzo Guaiana 11 (4/5, 1/1), Brian Sacchetti 10 (3/3, 1/2), Andrea Traini 10 (2/2, 1/4), Edoardo Tiberti 6 (1/ 1, 0/0), Dimitrije Stankovic 4 (2/2, 0/0), Giordano Durante 3 (0/0, 0/2), Andrea Pastore 3 (0/1, 1/3), Alessio Zanier 0 ( 0/1, 0/1)
Free throws: 14 / 18 – Rebounds: 29 4 + 25 (Brian Sacchetti 6) – Assists: 29 (Giordano Durante 9)
Luiss Roma: Fabrizio Pugliatti 14 (1/4, 4/7), Valerio Cucci 12 (2/3, 1/2), Riccardo Salvioni 11 (4/5, 0/0), Edoardo Bottelli 9 (1/1, 1/2), Matteo Ferrara 7 (2/5, 0/0), Nicholas Errica 5 (1/4, 1/4), Matteo Fallucca 3 (0/0, 1/6), Matija Jovovic 3 (0/ 2, 1/1), Mattia Graziano 3 (0/0, 1/1), Francesco Villa 0 (0/1, 0/3), Simone Rocchi 0 (0/0, 0/3), Cesare Barbon 0 ( 0/0, 0/0)
Free throws: 15 / 20 – Rebounds: 21 7 + 14 (Riccardo Salvioni 6) – Assists: 13 (Fabrizio Pugliatti, Matteo Ferrara 3)
