The two races at Sant’Ambrogio were enough to understand that something in the chemistry wasn’t right. Two elements who are struggling too much at the start of the season, three injuries that affect them, a barely recognizable identity. The first seven days of the championship confirm the September doubts about an attitude on the pitch that is worrying, even a lot. Because the more time passes, the more evident the involution is. From Sant’Ambrogio only steps backwards, not forwards, for a team that hasn’t even been able to train well (the facilities are unavailable) nor play the canonical 7-8 pre-season friendlies.
Let’s clarify once and for all: we will never ask for Giulio Cadeo’s head. Great basketball connoisseur, important past, elegance of other times. It is not his professionalism that can be put in the dock.
However, it is a different concept whether the choice made two years ago, exploiting his name to keep a good place after the Cigarini experience, has so far been functional to the technical project of the first team and not just the youth sector.
If the goal of the Viola was only to grow as a structure and club, without any sporting ambition to rise to the top, then Cadeo would be ideal, the right man for a project aimed at the distant, very distant future, because it will take years for the fruits to be reaped.
If, however, the priority goal was the rise to the first useful national championship, such as the summer hiring of ten seniors and the exit of the same number in a calendar year, careful technical reflection must be initiated. That’s not how it goes. What was wrong with the second, more playoff phase of last season.
Against Milazzo the few present (a bus of Milazzo residents transformed Pentimele into their home field) felt like leaving after the first two quarters. Nothing new for those who have been observing carefully for months, what has already been seen in Brindisi and Castellaneta has only been confirmed, two squares which in their honorable pedigree certainly do not harbor high ranking ambitions.
The corporate and technical evaluations (mountain) today gave birth to the solution (Mickey Mouse): away those who play less (and even better in the general greyness, both touching double figures). As if the responsibility for the defeats lay with the pair of athletes who, in the sad home defeat against Milazzo, played only four minutes (!).
Paulinus, the absolute protagonist of the three Neroarancio successes so far (15 points scored with Molfetta, MVP in the overtime gypsy in Barcelona with 25 points) has so many admirers around that he even ends up upstairs, in Piazza Armerina. “Redel Reggio Calabria announces that it has consensually terminated the contract with the player Joseph Paulinus. Paulinus left Reggio Calabria yesterday morning for Piazza Armerina, where he will continue the sporting season in Serie B1 with Siaz”.
Another problem could be Uchenna Ani, who strangely remained on the bench on Sunday due to a technical choice, and who was also pervaded by evident discontent. Will he go too? Will fresh forces arrive in December? Let’s hope they aren’t like Stamatis, Boniciolli and Traore, lethal last season for the square’s dreams of glory.
The trip to Corato and the upcoming challenges to the top teams of this start such as Ragusa, Matera, Messina and Monopoli will tell more. Meanwhile, eighth place, six points away from the top, represents the worst start since entering this category. The boos from the public underline this without discounts.