The second friendly of the national basketball team says that Italy is defeated in the match against France. In fact, at the Unipol Arena in Casalecchio di Reno the blues are folded 77-78 in overtime by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic vice-champions, dragged by Luwawu-Cabarrot e Poirier. Now the team of Gianmarco Pozzecco is preparing to face a series of matches in view of the next official matches. Good Fontecchio and Gallinari.
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The blues take the lead right from the start, thanks to a Fontecchio in excellent shape. The new winger of the Utah Jazz scores several points and at the end of the first quarter Italy reaches the advantage of +10. France tried to put Pozzecco’s team in difficulty on a couple of occasions, mending the rift in the second quarter. In fact, Italbasket resists but the first half ends in perfect equality. The guests react promptly by putting a safety margin between them and the blues, with Italy who returns in a tie at 69-69 and sends the match to extra time. In the end to win in the overtime it is France that imposes itself with only one point of advantage. Good signs come from 24 final points by Simone Fontecchio and 13 by Danilo Gallinari.
On Tuesday 16 August the second match in Montpellier, then the Italian national team will move to Hamburg where they will face Serbia.
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