By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
It was a friendly game, of course, but still, Ettore Messina could not have chosen a better way to begin his duties as head coach of the Italian national team.
The “Azzuri” destroyed the Czech Republic 78 – 48 in the Trentino Basketball Cup prep tournament, with Marco Belinelli scoring 15 points and Davide Pascolo adding 12. The Czechs lacked the services of their stars, Jan Vesely and Tomas Satoransky and fell short against a superior Italian squad.
No player of the losing side scored in double-digit numbers. Jaromir Bohacik and Vojtech Hruban, led their teammates with 9 and 8 points respectively.
Italy will face China in the Final while the Czech Republic will play against Turkey in the third-place game.