In the second day of European cup 16-8, Serbia lost to Italy again, showing the biggest upset in European Cup. The reason why it was said again was that Serbia also lost to Italy at the unsuccessful race Olympic Games last year, thus failing to become Tokyo.
After watching this game, everyone will be surprised. The main control of the Italian team is actually a small defender with a height of only 184-Marco spisu. Who is spisu?
The Italian team we are familiar with used to have Belinelli, then Gary Nelly, and now fontachio are all tall defenders or strikers. European players have always been famous for their tall figure, with spisu only 184. Such small defenders are rare.
Spisu’s background was plain, but he topped off the familiar Warrior guard Manian and played the main control in the European Cup. In the decisive battle against Serbia, spisu scored 6 points, contributing the highest 22 points in the team, and there were 6 assists.
With Warriors winning the championship as the watershed, the world trend of basketball has changed dramatically since 2015. It is generally believed that the frequent relieve a garrison of anti-blocking and dismantling has made the traditional big man’s market smaller and smaller. However, there are also small defenders affected.
The use of a large number of dislocation makes the defenders under 188 suffer a lot, and the market of defenders under 6 feet tall is also getting smaller and smaller according to the British system. As good as Owen, because his figure is only 185, he will become the target of his opponent’s dislocation strike in key battles.
Spisu’s English height is also 6 feet 1, actually less than that, and his official metric height is 184. In terms of playing style, he is quite similar to Barya who won the championship in the Mavericks. Of course, he is 6 centimeters higher than Barya, but in the tall Everest Poker European Cup court, he looks like Barya.
Against Serbia, spisu threw five three points in the second half, two of which came from the beginning of the fourth quarter, and also contributed a steal counterattack. Due to the outstanding performance in the fourth section, spisu’s positive and negative values are +10 and the efficiency value is 29, which are all the highest in the team.
Spisu has nothing to do. He is only a defender in the A2 League in Italy and has just joined Venice in the A1 League this year. A2 speaking well is equivalent to a B, in fact, it is the B league.
Spisu’s career was wandering. He was born in Sassari on Sardinia. Because of the youth training of Sassari, his right to play has been controlled by Sassari. Spisu started to play professionally at the age of 16 and has been loaned to various Italian teams by Sassari for 11 years, adding up to 5.
A year ago, spisu finally got a free body and moved to Spain and signed a contract with the Malaga team in Spanish and Spanish for two years. However, the Malaga team repented and tore up the contract on the grounds that his physical examination had problems. This shocked the Italian Basketball Association and directly intervened, saying that he had physical problems. How could he go to the Olympic Games? But it didn’t help either. Exhausted spisu had to go to Russia and join Kazan to play VTB League.
Who knows he just joined, Russia and Ukraine started to fight. More than 50 foreign players playing there also fled to return home like flying, with spisu inside.
However, when playing in the second-class league, spisu won the second-class cup on behalf of Bologna. He was still the MVP of the final. After escaping back this time, he finally found a job in the first-class league.
At last year’s Tokyo Olympics, he was still playing a substitute for Manion. Mannien is 190 tall. Although he is not outstanding, he barely passed.
The head coach of the Italian team in the Olympic Games was Sachetti. He obviously preferred the higher Manion, which not only made him start, but also played more than 20 minutes per game. Spisu only got a fake first fight against Australia in that game, only 5 minutes, and the other 4 games were not played.
In the European Cup, the head coach changed to the younger pozeko. He classified the four existing Italian guards technically: spissu was better at creating opportunities, and his ability to grasp opportunities and score was not weak; mannien’s one-on-one ability is good; Paola’s defense is good; Bardaso’s characteristics are between spisso and mannien. The height of the three guards is over 190, but pozeko chose the shortest spisu.
Mannien’s time was reduced to about 15 minutes per game, only 6 minutes for Serbia, while spisu reached more than 20 minutes, 32 minutes for Serbia because of its good effect, eat more than half of Manian’s time.
In fact, the data of spisu in the first five group matches is very general, with 0 in 3 points and 5 in 14 points, but he has 3 assists to 6 times, except for the one against Ukraine, at other times, positive and negative values are at least not lost, usually winning points.
Serbia was the runner-up of the last European Cup. Jokic was the two MVP of NBA, but the Italian team was not weak either. They were the fifth in the Olympic Games and the seventh in the last European Cup. Belinelli passed the torch to Gary Nelly and then to fontachio.
Before the European Cup, Gary Nelly was surprised to have a serious knee injury in the FIFA World Cup qualification match against Georgia, and even the NBA was reimbursed next season. This hit the Italian team very hard. They are a team led by a tall forward, and center melee has always performed generally. Although they defeated Croatia in the group match and played very close to Greece, they lost to Ukraine and met Serbia in 16 to 8. The Serbian team is a dream team-like existence, winning all 5 games in the group match, winning more than 26 points per game on average.
Serbia was eliminated for three reasons: first, light enemies; Second, light enemies; Third, light enemies.
The first light enemy was the lack of preparation before the match. He didn’t know enough about the Italian team that lost Gary Nally. He didn’t know that Meli would play so tough and spissuu would play so accurately, resulting in a lack of response after being reversed on the way.
The second light enemy came from being too easy to lead. They only played more than 6 minutes to expand their advantage to double digits, leading up to 14 points. Although the score difference was often narrowed, it was less than half played in the third quarter and pulled to double digits again. The Italian coach bozeko was sent out halfway.
The third light enemy came from yokedge’s too strong, which led to the dispatch of yokedge when it was almost double digits behind in the fourth quarter. At that time, the last quarter had been played for nearly 4 minutes. Yokeki did have super dominance. He even finished a note of “3+1” on spissu’s intentional foul when fighting back. The whole game was 32+13, and the efficiency was as high as 41, however, the Serbian team, which has always been tough in defense and changeable in attack, only had to give the ball to yokki at the last moment.
In history, there are many cases of winning against the weak. The common feature is that the strong team makes the enemy light and the weak perform tenacious on the spot.
In fact, Serbia played warm-up matches with Italy before the European Cup. At that time, Italy was very tenacious and only lost 4 points in the end. At the unsuccessful race of the Olympic Games in July 5 last year, satchetti commanded the Italian team to win Serbia, where Teodosic joined the war. However, there was no yokiki in the team, so the Serbian team failed to become Tokyo. The game was dominated by Manian, and spissu didn’t play for a minute.
Stepping into the same river twice shows that the strong Serbian team has a stubborn disease, but Italy has let one of the inner and outer line play the highest level in the national team’s career in key competitions, this shows that this team has the tradition of being strong or weak.
The biggest inspiration for us is the informal style of European basketball. They advocate tall defenders, but they also use small men like spisu, and they use them very firmly, with surprising results.
At 23:15 tomorrow night, Italy will compete with France for the top four seats, and it will be a weak pair to see if the Italian team has any miracle. What kind of performance will spisu have when he meets the tall foniel.
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