Welcome back to the Taking The Charge Podcast. This week’s interview is with Giacomo Rossi, general manager of Orange1 Bassano, one of the up-coming academies in Europe. We talk about how the team performed at the ANGT Ljubljana, what his young players learned from the tournament, how he is trying to build up the program and who some of his competitors are as well as how happy he was to see Stellazzurra Rome win the ANGT Patras.
Before that … let’s take a quick look around the world of basketball with the Big Three
1:40 - Story we are watching - A number of players have already made news by declaring for the 2022 NBA Draft and you will be hearing plenty more names as Sunday is the deadline to put your name out there - with June 13 as the deadline to withdraw.
3:40 - Young player of the week - Matthew Strazel has declared for the 2022 NBA Draft and we just wanted to look and see what he has done. Despite not turning 20 until early August, Strazel already has played 66 games over three seasons in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague.
5:30 - Up-coming event we are watching - This week we have the start of the playoffs in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and 7DAYS EuroCup.
Before we get into the talk with Giacomo Rossi, we would like to give you a sneak peak of the Taking The Charge Prospects Podcast interview with Montenegro guard Fedor Zugic of ratiopharm ulm - which is part of the paid subscription section of the TTC substack.
7:20 - Sneak preview of interview
Giacomo Rossi, general manager Orange1 Bassano - 11:30
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Taking The Charge: Giacomo Rossi, GM Orange1 Bassano