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2020–21 Virtus Roma season

Main article: Virtus Roma

The 2020–21 season is Virtus Roma's 61st in existence and the club's 2nd consecutive season in the top tier Italian basketball.

Virtus Roma
2020-21 season
OwnerClaudio Toti
PresidentAlessandro Toti
Head coachPiero Bucchi
ArenaPalaLottomatica
LBADisqualified
SupercupGroup stage (4th of 4)

Overview

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During the summer preseason period, the team faced financial uncertainty for the coming season, but at the end, on July 31, the president Toti decided to subscribe the team to the Lega Basket Serie A.[1] Coach Piero Bucchi was confirmed and the team built in just less than a month.

Roma started the season without having a top sponsor and the lack of it brought more financial problems to deal with before the end of the year. In the month of December, Claudio Toti started looking for new owners whom to hand over the team, but no offer was officially made.[2] Finally the decision to withdraw from the Serie A was taken on December 9 and the announcement was first given from the Italian Basketball Federation.[3]

Until then Virtus Roma had played 9 games with 2 wins and was placed in the 15th place of the standing, out of 16. All the games were voided and the team was fined with 600.000 euros.[4]

Kit

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Supplier: Macron

 
 
 
 
Serie A Home
 
 
 
 
Serie A Away

Players

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Current roster

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Virtus Roma roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age
PF 0   Hadžić, Damir 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 103 kg (227 lb) 27 – (1997-05-13)13 May 1997
F/C 1   Biordi, Ygor 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 28 – (1996-01-17)17 January 1996
G 9   Beane, Anthony 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 30 – (1994-05-06)6 May 1994
G 12   Campogrande, Luca 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 28 – (1996-04-30)30 April 1996
PG 13   Baldasso, Tommaso (C) 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 26 – (1998-01-29)29 January 1998
C 14   Cervi, Riccardo 2.15 m (7 ft 1 in) 115 kg (254 lb) 33 – (1991-06-19)19 June 1991
G 15   Telesca, Samuele 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) 78 kg (172 lb) 21 – (2003-02-01)1 February 2003
C 16   Hunt, Dario 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 35 – (1989-05-02)2 May 1989
PG 22   Robinson, Gerald 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 77 kg (170 lb) 35 – (1989-02-10)10 February 1989
PF 23   Evans, Chris 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 33 – (1991-01-29)29 January 1991
G/F 25   Farley, Liam 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 90 kg (198 lb) 30 – (1994-09-20)20 September 1994
SF 99   Wilson, Jamil 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 104 kg (229 lb) 34 – (1990-11-21)21 November 1990
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
  •   Giuseppe Di Paolo
  •   Andrea Bonacina
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  •   Injured
Updated: 10 December 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Depth chart

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Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2
C Dario Hunt Riccardo Cervi Ygor Biordi
PF Chris Evans Damir Hadžić
SF Jamil Wilson Liam Farley
SG Anthony Beane Luca Campogrande Samuele Telesca
PG Gerald Robinson Tommaso Baldasso

6+6 format (colours: Italian or homegrown players; foreign players; young players)

Squad changes

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In

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No. Pos. Nat. Name Age Moving from Type Ends Transfer fee Date Source
12 G/F   Luca Campogrande 24 New Basket Brindisi   1 year June 2021 Free 6 August 2020 [5]
14 C   Riccardo Cervi 29 Pallacanestro Trieste   1 year June 2021 Free 7 August 2020 [6]
23 PF   Chris Evans 29 Orléans Loiret Basket   1 year June 2021 Free 10 August 2020 [7]
22 G   Gerald Robinson 31 Bursaspor Basketbol   1 year June 2021 Free 11 August 2020 [8]
9 G   Anthony Beane 26 Spirou Charleroi   1 year June 2021 Free 12 August 2020 [9]
0 PF   Damir Hadžić 23 Flagler College   1 year June 2021 Free 13 August 2020 [10]
99 SF   Jamil Wilson 29 UNICS Kazan   1 year June 2021 Free 18 August 2020 [11]
1 F/C     Ygor Biordi 24 Gilbertina Soresina   1 year June 2021 Free 20 August 2020 [12]
16 C   Dario Hunt 31 Mornar Bar   1 year June 2021 Free 25 August 2020 [13]

Out

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No. Pos. Nat. Name Age Moving to Type Transfer fee Date Source
7 PF     Amar Alibegović 25 Virtus Bologna   End of contract Free 27 May 2020 [14]
77 SG   Tomáš Kyzlink 27 Reggio Emilia   End of contract Free 26 June 2020 [15]
0 SG   Jaylen Barford 24 Al Ittihad Alexandria   End of contract Free 1 July 2020 [16]
2 F/C   Kevin Cusenza 27 Free agent End of contract Free 1 July 2020
9 G   Corey Webster 31 New Zealand Breakers   End of contract Free 1 July 2020 [17]
10 SG   Roberto Rullo 30 Free agent End of contract Free 1 July 2020
22 F/C   Giovanni Pini 27 Scaligera Verona   End of contract Free 1 July 2020 [18]
34 SG   Giovanni Spinosa 22 Free agent End of contract Free 1 July 2020
41 F/C   Davon Jefferson 33 Maccabi Haifa   End of contract Free 1 July 2020 [19]
44 SG   William Buford 30 Darüşşafaka   End of contract Free 1 July 2020 [20]

Confirmed

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No. Pos. Nat. Name Age Moving from Type Ends Transfer fee Date Source
13 PG   Tommaso Baldasso 22 Auxilium Torino   3 + 3 years June 2022 Free 13 July 2016 [21][22]
25 G/F   Liam Farley 25 Bowdoin   1 + 1 year June 2021 Free 9 August 2019 [23]

From youth team

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No. Pos. Nat. Name Age Transfer fee Date
15 G   Samuele Telesca 17 Youth system 9 July 2020

Coach

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Nat. Name Age. Previous team Type Ends Date Source
  Piero Bucchi 61 JuveCaserta   2 + 1 years June 2021 4 March 2018 [24]

Competitions

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Supercup

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Main article: 2020 Italian Basketball Supercup
Pos Team
 Pld W L PF PA PD Qualification
1 Banco di Sardegna Sassari 6 4 2 563 484 +79 Advance to Final Four
2 Happy Casa Brindisi 6 4 2 528 470 +58
3 Carpegna Prosciutto Pesaro 6 4 2 498 435 +63
4 Virtus Roma 6 0 6 394 594 −200
Source: LegaBasket Serie A
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.

Serie A

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Main article: 2020–21 LBA season

This was the situation before the official ban from the competition:

Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD
12 Acqua S.Bernardo Cantù 9 3 6 695 760 −65
13 Germani Basket Brescia 10 3 7 768 804 −36
14 Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste 5 2 3 380 390 −10
15 Virtus Roma 9 2 7 674 789 −115
16 Fortitudo Lavoropiù Bologna 9 1 8 726 798 −72
Updated to match(es) played on 9 December 2020. Source: [citation needed]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Toti: 'La mia decisione per permettere a Roma di avere ancora l'opportunità di partecipare alla A'" (in Italian). legabasket.it. 31 July 2020.
  2. ^ "LBA, Gandini sulla rinuncia della Virtus Roma: 'La grande passione di Claudio Toti non è bastata'" (in Italian). legabasket.it. 9 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Rinuncia Virtus Roma. Una nota della FIP" (in Italian). fip.it. 9 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Virtus Roma. Le decisioni del Giudice Sportivo Nazionale" (in Italian). fip.it. 10 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Luca Campogrande alla Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 6 August 2020.
  6. ^ "La Virtus Roma ingaggia Riccardo Cervi" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 7 August 2020.[permanent dead link‍]
  7. ^ "Chris Evans alla Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 10 August 2020.[permanent dead link‍]
  8. ^ "Gerald Robinson è un nuovo giocatore della Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 11 August 2020. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  9. ^ "La Virtus Roma ingaggia Anthony Beane" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 12 August 2020. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Ingaggiato Damir Hadzic" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 13 August 2020.[permanent dead link‍]
  11. ^ "Jamil Wilson alla Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 18 August 2020. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Ingaggiato Ygor Biordi" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 20 August 2020. Archived from the original on 9 September 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  13. ^ "Dario Hunt è il centro della Virtus Roma" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 25 August 2020.[permanent dead link‍]
  14. ^ "BENVENUTO AMAR!" (in Italian). virtus.it. 27 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Tomáš Kyzlink è il primo acquisto biancorosso" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 26 June 2020.[permanent dead link‍]
  16. ^ "Jaylen Barford agreed terms with Al Ettehad". eurobasket.com. 27 October 2020.
  17. ^ "2019-20 Player Contract Status". nbl.com.au. 7 July 2020.
  18. ^ "Welcome back! Giovanni Pini firma con la Tezenis Verona" (in Italian). scaligerabasket.it. 9 July 2020.
  19. ^ "הפורוורד/סנטר דבון ג'פרסון חתם במכבי חיפה עד לסיום עונת 2020-21" (in Hebrew). mhbasket.co.il. 3 November 2020.
  20. ^ "Daçka'ya hoş geldin William Buford!" (in Turkish). darussafakabasketbol.com. 9 October 2020.
  21. ^ "UFFICIALE A2 - Virtus Roma: in arrivo Tommaso Baldasso" (in Italian). pianetabasket.com. 13 July 2016.
  22. ^ "Rinnovato il contratto di Tommaso Baldasso" (in Italian). virtusroma.it. 28 June 2019. Archived from the original on 23 July 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  23. ^ "Al via la stagione 2019-20 della Virtus Roma: domani alle 18 il primo allenamento". virtusroma.it (in Italian). Virtus Roma. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  24. ^ "Piero Bucchi nuovo Head Coach della Virtus Roma" (in Italian). legapallacanestro.com. 4 March 2018.
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