Trento climbed above Joventut in the standings
Myles Cale’s personal best helped keep Trento’s season alive
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Before Tuesday’s meeting between Joventut Badalona and Dolomiti Energia Trento, it appeared that the Spanish team was mounting a late push to finish in Group A’s top six. Now, though, the script has been flipped and it’s Trento that looks capable of a late charge up the standings.
A convincing 86-100 road victory stopped Joventut’s two-game winning streak in its tracks, and means that Trento has instead put together impressive back-to-back victories after last week’s thumping home win over ratiopharm Ulm.
As in that game, Myles Cale played a big part in the latest triumph. Having paired 14 points with 5 rebounds against the German team, the all-action guard started red-hot in Badalona by scoring his team’s first 10 points en route to a career-high 21 on the back of 4-of-6 three-point shooting.
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But Cale wasn’t the only impressive performer for the visiting team, which did everything well: 22 assists, dished by nine different players; great shooting accuracy with 73.3% of two-pointers and 41.7% of threes converted; winning the rebounding battle 34-27; snaring 6 steals with relentless pressure on the ball.
Those numbers fully reflect Trento’s dominance on the night, and Cale was quick to hail his team’s collective effort as he said: “I think we all played really well together. We came out really good and played a good 40 minutes of basketball. Defensively and offensively – we were moving the ball and getting some good shots for each other.”
Visiting coach Paolo Galbiati was also rightfully delighted with his team’s performance, enthusing: “We used very well our strengths: our athleticism, our quickness and our different kind of physicality. They are huge in size, but we are a little bit stronger, undersized but fast, and we shot the ball very well.
“We attacked the targets we decided to attack all game long, and the players were very sharp on that.”
Next up, a home game against a Wolves Twinsbet Vilnius team that has struggled in recent weeks, before the regular season concludes with a testing trip to Besiktas Fibabanka Istanbul. Both are must-win affairs for Galbiati’s men, who will also still need other results to go their way.
But Trento has clearly hit its best form of the season and, if the last two performances can be repeated in the two remaining games, the Italian team still has every chance of climbing into the top six and sneaking into postseason action.