Italy Serie A Week 15
Siena continues its dance with a win over Varese.
Even without Ksystof Lavrinovic (210-C-79) - out for 20 days - Montepaschi shot 72,5% on 2p., highlighted by 11 dunks.
Cimberio suffered through the injury of Mate Skelin (212-C-74) - knee - after 3'.
Also in Italy we have the big three, at Capo D'Orlando: Drake Diener (196-G-81, agency: Priority Sports, college: De Paul), Tamar Slay (204-G-80, college: Marshall), Judson Wallace (204-F/C-82, college: Princeton) are scoring 51p. on average in this season. Against Biella they did also better: 74p. and 22r. Its a very tough match-up against a team with so many options, considering also that the 4th and 5th are the experienced Gianmarco Pozzecco (185-G-72) and Adam Wojcik (207-F-70, agency: Beo Basket).
Another team with many weapons in offense is Avellino. In this round they won at Treviso by 25... 4 players scored more than 14 points and Benetton suffered for every minute after the first quarter.
La Fortezza came back to the victory controlling Teramo at home. It marked the first game of Travis Best (180-G-72, college: Georgia Tech), known as the "2nd coming". The pointguard chipped in 5as. in 21'.
Snaidero Udine smiles again after 5 game losses in a row. Against Cantu it was a close game solved by 5p. in the last minute of Mike Penberthy (191-G-74, college: Master's), who ended the game with 22. Cantu was paced by a 24p contribution by DaShaun Wood (180-G-85, college: Wright St.).
Also Napoli had a losing streak but Jamel Thomas (198-F/G-76, college: Providence), who had been disappointing in the first part of this season, led his team to a good home victory against Upim. For Bologna Stefano Mancinelli (202-F-83) scored 19 points.
Legea Scafati created trouble to MIlano over 40' finding good solutions on offense (4 players scoring in double digits) but Danilo Gallinari (202-G-88, agency: Players Group) and Melvin Booker (185-G-72, college: Missouri) kept Milano in the playoff zone.
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