Fortitudo, Thomas' time. Sunday in Verona can look for take-off

Change of mentality, maximum attention and no relaxation. This is for coach Attilio Caja it seems to have become a real mantra at home Fortitude. Coming from four consecutive victories, but pricked by their coach, Matteo Fantinelli and his teammates continue their preparations with a vengeance in view of Sunday afternoon's challenge with Verona, scheduled for 18 pm at the Pala Agsm Aim. Leo Menalo is still unavailable, undergoing tests and in the pits like the long-term patients Kenny Gabriel and Gherardo Sabatini, Caja will play with 10 players at its disposal, the same ones sent to the report last Sunday against Piacenza.

Ailments and seasonal ailments aside to manage, in the white-blue house they are working hard on changing mentality, on the maximum concentration to be put into the game, but first of all in training, on the application of the defensive rules and offensive principles wanted by coach Caja. In all this, also focusing on mutual knowledge with Luca Vencato, Marco Cusin and Deshawn Freeman, we need to insert in the best way into the team's staff Don Thomas. With Piacenza, the new American forward played on the PalaDozza court for just 2 minutes, not even enough time to show off his qualities. Obviously, with only one training session in his legs, it was difficult to ask for more; the situation for Sunday was decidedly different, after a whole week at the coach's disposal, and with the possibility, for the native of Olympia Fields in Illinois, to get to know his new teammates and technical staff better.

In front of Fortitudo you will find a Scaligera Verona fresh from the 83-76 defeat of Cento and which has a close correlation with Bologna. Leading the team on the bench is Alessandro Ramagli from Livorno who under the Two Towers we remember at the helm of Virtus who won the Serie A2 championship in the 2016/17 season and then also in the following season in Serie A. Leading the company in the cockpit is the general manager Alessandro Frosini, a sports manager who as a player has a long past as a player between Fortitudo and Virtus. On the field for Verona there will instead be two Bolognese doc, born and raised under the Two Towers, black and white side like Giulio Gazzotti (remained on the bench with Cento) and Lorenzo Penna. Ex of the challenge is instead Mattia Palumbo who behind him has a brief experience of 9 games in Serie A1 with Effe in the 2020-21 season.