Banchero, Petrucci doesn’t untie the knots: “There’s a hope of having him in the blue at the World Cup”

Paolo Bancaro the first season is about to end NBA of his career. For the basketball player with an Italian passport, probably the best rookies of the American League, the time has come to think about its near future. Gianni Petruccipresident of the Federbasket can not yet managed to clarify: “Banchero at the World Cup with Italy? I can’t say yes or no – he declared to Gazzetta dello Sport -. There is hope, but I can’t promise anything. Main goal for the World Cup? Detach a pass for the Olympic Games. There are only two places, but we know that then there will be the pre-Olympic. The Olympic Games they are important for all sports, and in ours in particular there is enormous competition”.

Petrucci: “Pozzecco is a great coach”

“I’m sorry I didn’t renew my contract a Bags” added Petrucci, “but, in agreement with the general manager of the blue teams Salvatore Trainottithe National he needed something different”. And so it was. “There is no doubt, the players want to wear the blue. Pozzecco it’s not just spirit, character: he’s a great coach, he knows how to train a team. And he even surpassed me: on the street they recognize him more than me … “.

Orlando out of the playoffs

Paolo Banchero is preparing to conclude his first season with the Orlando Magic with remarkable numbers: 20 points per game, almost 7 rebounds in 33 minutes of average use. There are four games left in the regular season and the franchise occupies the twelfth place in the East, with no longer any chance of qualifying for the playoffs. The Magic are twelfth in the Eastern Conference with 34 wins and 44 losses. The agreements between Federbasket and Banchero, made in December, when a blue delegation (with Pozzecco) went to visit him in the USA, established that Banchero would have to make a decision on the shirt blue at the end of the regular season. We are almost there.