Italian NT 2016

[Italian Pride2]

Will Gentile play?I thought that he had a severe injury but I also saw him playing at the Italian league finals.What's up with him?

He isn't fully recover(his shooting parable was terrible sometimes in playoff expecially against Venice),but phisically against Reggio Emilia seemed he recovered his natural phisical exuberance!

 

[Italian Pride2]

Italian National Team head coach Ettore Messina cut the roster of the team to 16 players following the Trentino Basket Cup won by his players. After the tournament in Bologna scheduled for next weekend, Messina will announce the 12 players for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament of Turin

The 16 are:
PG Daniel Lorenzo Hackett, Giuseppe Poeta, Andrea Cinciarini
G Marco Stefano Belinelli, Alessandro Gentile, Amedeo Della Valle, Stefano Tonut
[SF Luigi Datome, Awudu Abass, Pietro Aradori
PF Nicolò Melli, Danilo Gallinari, Andrea Zerini
C Riccardo Cervi, Andrea Bargnani, Marco Cusin

Reserves: Davide Pascolo, David Reginald Cournooh, Luca Vitali, Fabio Mian

Pascolo out,this is a joke

 

[soulis792]

So it' looks like Messina will choose:

Hackett, Cinciarini, Bellinelli, Gentile, Della Valle, Aradori, Datome, Melli, Gallinari, Cousin, Bargniani and Cervi. Abass has a chance, Poeta too.

Where is Polonara?

 

[Italian Pride2]

i expect Polonara out,in his spot wer have the better players and also Datome can play minutes like stretch forward!

I think Messina preferes three big man (Cervi,Bargnani and Cusin) and two power forward(Melli and Gallinari)!

Della Valle has few chances,Abass play very well in these two friendlies(always starting 5),he is a very good defensive player and Messina love him,most probably he will be in the final 12!

definitely:

Hackett-Cinciarini/Poeta
Belinelli-Gentile-Aradori/Della Valle
Datome-Abass
Gallinari-Melli
Bargnani-Cervi-Cusin

 

[Italian Pride2]

Davide Pascolo replaces the injured Andrea Zerini in Italian NT training camp

I think,unfortunately, he has few chances,but him or Cervi is a win-win for us!

 

[Svoura2]

Are there still tickets for the Torino "final" available? Is it sold out?

 

[Italian Pride2]

Are there still tickets for the Torino "final" available? Is it sold out?

http://www.ticketone.it/biglietti.h...n+2016&scrollToAnchor=ticketTable&jumpIn=yTix

Sold out!

 

[Oly_fan2]

What is Italy's play style with Messina? Is their offence more structured?

 

[Italian Pride2]

What is Italy's play style with Messina? Is their offence more structured?

Yes,there's something different,last year only pn'roll and Iso, improve this offence isn't very hard

However,yesterday we suck against Canada!

 

[Svoura2]

I am going to need a ticket for the final day in Torino. If @ItalianPride or anyone else has any spare, please contact me by PM.
Thank you in advance.

 

[Svoura2]

It is reported that Belinelli broke his upper jaw, but still intends to play. Any more info?

 

[R1ou2]

Yes,there's something different,last year only pn'roll and Iso, improve this offence isn't very hard

However,yesterday we suck against Canada!

Hey,how is Belinelli? I have read that his injury was even more serious that Hackett's and Bargnani's.Those two will probably play,but at Italian sites they are afraid of a possible miss of Belinelli as far as I know.Enlighten me please

 

[Italian Pride2]

http://www.sportando.com/en/nationa...rco-belinelli-suffered-jaw-bone-fracture.html

Maybe he will miss first game against Tunisia,but against Croatia he should play with a facemask!(this isn't an officially new,only rumor)

 

[Picek2]

I am going to need a ticket for the final day in Torino. If @ItalianPride or anyone else has any spare, please contact me by PM.
Thank you in advance.

why will you need it for the final?
going to watch Croatia - Italy?
don't have anything better to do on saturday evening?


for the sake of the tickets for final game I hope Italy plays Greece in the semis

 

[Svoura2]

why will you need it for the final?
going to watch Croatia - Italy?
don't have anything better to do on saturday evening?


for the sake of the tickets for final game I hope Italy plays Greece in the semis

I just found the ticket I needed, thanks. Hopefully I can sell it to some Croat eager to watch his team

 

[Picek2]

I just found the ticket I needed, thanks. Hopefully I can sell it to some Croat eager to watch his team

I think there will be dozen of us croatians in total, maybe.
family members excluded.
but if face each other in the semi, which is most likely to happen, and if you by some miracle lose that game I will buy it from you.

 

[Svoura2]

It's a deal then. Let's keep in touch.
Make no mistake, Croatia v Greece will be a close game.

 

[Italian Pride2]

According to Sportando Belinelli could miss first game!

 

[R1ou2]

According to Sportando Belinelli could miss first game!

You would have an easy time with Tunisia either way

 

[Italian Pride2]

12 for Turin:

Hackett-Poeta
Belinelli-Aradori-Tonut
Datome-Gentile
Gallinari-Melli
Bargnani-Cervi-Cusin

Tonut and Poeta the big surprises in these 12,i expect della Valle out because he is a black hole in defense,i Expect 3 big man because Messina isn't a smallball lover like Pianigiani!