The best Italian passport pivot? His name is Oumane Diop , he is Senegalese by birth but with an Italian signature and wears the Sassari shirt. Apart from Melli from Milan, who is actually an alapivot, Diop offers figures higher than those of his colleagues: 9 points in 17.6 minutes of use with 64% from two, an improvable 67% from the line and 5 rebounds on average for a total of 12 as rating.
To get an idea of the improvements, suffice it to say that last season, playing just 3 minutes less, he scored 6 points and had a rating that was practically half that.
The two centers of the national team register something less than the pivot of the Sassari team. In Varese Caruso travels with 9.3 points in 17 minutes with almost 70% from two, 59% on free throws and not even 4 rebounds for an evaluation that stops at 11. In Venice, Tessitori, formerly of Dinamo, proposes 7 points in 15 minutes with 55% twos and 65% free throws plus 3.3 rebounds.
Diop has worked both technically and physically (a few kilos less, more defined muscles) and with experience he is learning to rebound and shoot always in balance, perhaps even feinting instead of throwing off balance as he used to do before.
