Virtus can smile: Pajola is there. The playmaker on the field with Venezia

Days of waiting, preparation and integration. The start of the playoffs is approaching with game 1 of the quarterfinals scheduled for Sunday afternoon at 18 pm at the Segafredo Arena with Reyer Venezia and the wait for the start of the hot and crucial phase of the season is growing. It is a Virtus that arrives at the playoffs as top of the class and in good health if it is true that the last defeat dates back to March 22, 85-78 in Trieste, and from then on the V Nere have followed up with 7 consecutive victories. The team is healthy and the roster is complete for the start of the series with Venezia, given that Alessandro Pajola has recovered and will be regularly on the court and that in the last few days, today the player's presentation to the press at 13 pm, the thirty-one year old American point guard Brandon Taylor has also been included in the roster. The former player of Bergamo and Reggio Emilia has already met his teammates with whom today, again at the Porelli gym, he will do his first training session after having already done an individual session yesterday. The acquaintance with Diouf, his teammate during the adventure in Reggio Emilia and the desire to immediately give a hand to the team will help the inclusion of the playmaker who, together with Hackett and Pajola, will have to share the directing duties. The inclusion of a ready player, who knows the Italian championship and who will not upset the balance that has formed in the team in these last two months can only be a further positive factor for a Virtus called in the playoffs, immediately to an important test against a fearsome team like Venezia of the former Amedeo Tessitori.

The difference, in the last period and in the streak of Juventus victories, has certainly been made by the defensive intensity, determination and belief that the team has shown on the field, demonstrating that it fully deserves the top spot in the standings and therefore the advantage of home field advantage in all the playoffs.

Meanwhile, advance sales are proceeding quickly in view of the double home challenge with Reyer Venezia on Sunday (brought forward to 18pm) and Tuesday (20.30pm).

The Lega Basket Serie A has finally released the numbers on spectators for the regular season. In this ranking, Virtus is the second team in Serie A, with an average of over 6 thousand spectators, to be precise 6.071 and with an average takings per game that is around 110 thousand euros. Bologna - Trapani (9.593 spectators) is the game with the most spectators played at the Segafredo Arena, surpassed overall by the three challenges in Milan, including the confrontation between Armani and the V Nere which reached 10.869, the challenge with the most attendances of the regular season.

On the market front for the future, Virtus insists on Niang, Procida and Alston junior.