Home Opening Day for Napoli Basket against Pallacanestro Trieste in the second match of the Serie A championship. The match will be played tomorrow at 8:30 PM at PalaBarbuto. Napoli Basket is coming from an away defeat against Italian Champions Virtus Bologna, while Trieste, in their league debut, lost at home by Trapani. Coach Gonzalez's team was defeated this week in the first matchday of the Champions League in Germany by Würzburg. The match will refereed by. Giovannetti, Pepponi e Marziali.
Dichiarazione di Alessandro Magro Coach del Napoli Basket:
We're on the eve of our first home game. We can't wait to meet our fans, confident that their enthusiasm will help us to play a match that will be challenging and difficult match against an extremely strong team. Trieste came off two losing game, both in serie a1 and Champions League, and they will have a great desire to find their first win of the season.
It will be a tough match where we will definitely have to take a step forward from a defensive point of view to try to contain all the talent they have in their players as Ross, Brown, Ramsey e Ruzzier, that can both score that play for their teammates.
We'll have to try to limit their fastbreak play and move the ball as the team has shown it can do. But regardless, we want to make our fans proud of us.
I can expect a strong match, we must to be very consistent on both sides of the pitch. We will certainly fight hard to give our first victory to all those who follow us with great affection."
Tickets for the game are still on sale, both on the Vivaticket platform and at the box office, which opens tomorrow at 6:00 PM. The PalaBarbuto gates will open at 7:00 PM. The game will be broadcast live on the LBATV platform. Live updates will be available on Napoli Basket's social. As a reminder, you can follow the Napoli Basket’s entire Serie A season, exclusively for the USA and Canada, on the "Napoli Basketball TV" YouTube channel. The club's official YouTube channel will also broadcast pre-match live with special features, interviews, and trivia, starting at 7:30 PM.