The breaking news that we all feared fell at the start of the followingnoon: Danilo Gallinari will miss EuroBasket 2022 due to an injury which occurred yesterday once morest Georgia. The first news is reassuring, but not enough to allow the Celtics player to help Italy from Friday.
The first images were rather chilling, Danilo Gallinari having injured himself on a eurostep attempt, the kind that require very heavy support, especially following a sprint which Dani is not really used to. Immediately Danilo hobbled very low, and immediately the word ligament came to mind, because we’re getting used to it…
Danilo Gallinari appears to suffer a non-contact knee injury on this play.
Prayers up for Gallo ???????? pic.twitter.com/DT5VRHoB2U
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) August 27, 2022
The expectation was heavy on the side of the boot, his potential absence from the Euro was already no longer really in doubt and we were above all expecting reassuring news concerning the 34-year-old interior, freshly signed by the Celtics to add a little parmesan and spacing in the attack of the last NBA finalists. In the end it is therefore a lesser evil since we learned a few minutes ago that the meniscus was well affected but that the tendon had not receivedperhaps the best news possible given the images from the day before.
Danilo Gallinari has suffered a meniscus tear in his left knee, the Italian national team announces. No ACL or ligament damage, the team says, which is best case for the Celtics forward following the non-contact injury on Saturday. https://t.co/NG8mS7O6pB
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 28, 2022
With this last minute package, Meo Sacchetti’s roster should therefore consist of Tommaso Baldasso, Paul Biligha, Luigi Datome, Simone Fontecchio, Nico Mannion, Nicolo Melli, Alessandro Pajola, Achille Polonara, Giampaolo Ricci, Marco Spissu, Amedeo Tessitori and Stefano Tonutraise your hand if you know more than eight, enough to play the pain in a group C which will see them face Greece, Croatia, Ukraine, Estonia and Great Britain, yeah we ranked from best to worst.
Big blow in any case for a player who had the opportunity to play one of his last big international competitions, at home moreover as far as the group stage is concerned, and big blow obviously for the Squadra, who would have needed the papatte of his offensive leader. Role that should take over without too many problems the neo-Jazz Simone Fontecchio, who had already shown in Tokyo that you can also be the best Italian scorer… without having to squint.
