Fiat Torino is playing the worst and lazy basketball in Serie A
Fiat Torino is playing the worst and lazy basketball in Serie A
Moving like old fat ladies in their wheelchairs, the Americans from Fiat Torino are the worst defenders in Europe. Probably in their small minds, to score points is enough. They looked so pathetic and dumb on the court yesterday, allowing Olimpia Milano to score 110 points. Even if Torino cut the lead to just 19 at the end of the game, they were down by 30 points in the last minutes.
And this poor result happens to be in front of a team like Milano tired from the trip to Moscow where they faced Khimki last Thursday in Euroleague and where they will be back to fight CSKA next week. Torino had to try to win exactly this game because Milano was very tired and focused on the Euroleague campaign, where they can reach the playoffs after many years. But for this victory of Torino to happen, the visitors had to have a totally different approach: from the 1st second of the game, they had to fight like tigers for every possession. The recipe for success in this battle should be:
- a full-court press on Milano’s guards to make them tired and to prevent them to organize an efficient attack
- running much more in defense to cover better the 3 points line, not allowing Milano to score almost 52% (17 from 33) – because a team like Milano will try exactly to score without so much effort, they didn’t want to risk injuries so they chose to shoot more from the arc.
- Torino has to show much more aggressiveness on offense (penetrate the defense to the basket, instead of just shooting from the arc, go for every offensive rebound, run more)
Instead of a great struggle to have a chance to win, the American “ladies” from Fiat Torino offered a sample of lack of motivation and respect for the game of basketball. They played a stupid “run and gun”, they were lazy in defense, they seemed not to care too much about the result of the game.
Gratian Cormos, info@brainbasketball.net
