A2 Basketball Playoffs, Fortitudo Ready for Redemption

Desio, May 11, 2025 - Forward with 2 race. We start again, not even the time to digest the first challenge of the series, which on Saturday night saw Cantu to prevail 72-64 and Brianza and Fortitudo Flats Service find themselves facing each other for the second act of the quarter-finals playoff final.

The hosts are ahead 1-0 and the team is Attilio Caja which instead must analyse what happened on Saturday, confirm the good things he did, excellent defense and an excellent Aradori, and instead improve what didn't work.

Let's start from the performance of kenny gabriel, a swallow, the test with Pesaro, does not make Primavera, with the former Brescia winger unfortunately falling back into the mistakes he has made throughout the season. Too many fluttering shots and a latent nervousness that has also involved his teammates, first and foremost Freeman.

Furthermore, if Gabriel has one of his best days and Mian remains silent or almost silent, the only real offensive terminal of Fortitudo is and remains only Aradori, who some define as old, full of aches and pains but in the end he is the only one who scores if it is true that from the supporting cast, Cloths, Bolpin, Cusin, Vencato We expect above all teamwork and a lot of defense.

To beat Acqua S.Bernardo it will take a greater effort from everyone, also because ending up with a double disadvantage for Brianza, would then be difficult to overturn for an Effe that with short rotations, Battistini remained on the bench for the whole match, Vencato not at his best and just 2' on the field, in the last quarter of the game showed a noticeable drop in energy. These are certainly the negative factors, on the positive side it must be said that the quarterfinal series with Cantù is still in its infancy and that tomorrow evening, tip-off at 20.30:88 pm at the PalaFitLine in Desio (live streaming on Lnp Pass, radio on Sanluchino and audio commentary on Canale 0), we start again from 0-XNUMX with Effe who has also shown in the championship, in truth at the PalaDozza, that they can hurt the Brianza team.

We need to repeat the solid defensive performance offered on Saturday and maybe put in a bit more effort from everyone in the scoring phase, waiting for Mian and especially Gabriel to reveal themselves. The difference in game 1 between Fortitudo and Cantù is right here, because the Brianza team, with McGee excellently contained at just 3 points from Fantinelli and his teammates, they found valid alternatives in Baldi Rossi and Valentini, as well as obviously the spearheads Moraschini and Basile, Fortitudo on the other hand, if we exclude the final phase where the oxen had already escaped, did not.

The series - Cantù ahead 1-0, tomorrow night game 2, Thursday 15th at 20.30pm game 3 is scheduled at the PalaDozza.