Aquila Basket Trento

Aquila Basket Trento
Leagues	Serie A Eurocup
Founded	1995
Arena	PalaTrento
Capacity	4,360
Location	Trento, Trentino, Italy
Team colors	White and Black
President	Luigi Longhi
Team manager	Salvatore Trainotti
Head coach	Maurizio Buscaglia
Championships	1 DNA Gold 2014 1 LegaDue Cup 2013
Website	aquilabasket.it
Uniforms
Home Away

Aquila Basket Trento, also known for sponsorship reasons as Dolomiti Energia Trento, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Trento, Trentino.

It was founded in 1995 as an amalgamation of two local clubs, going from the amateur divisions to the first division Serie A in less than a decade. It plays in the Serie A as of the 2015-16 season.

History

Aquila Basket Trento was founded in 1995 from the merger of two clubs playing the seventh tier Serie D, Dolomiti Sport B.C. Trento and Pallacanestro Villazzano, under the impetus of their respective presidents; Gianni Brusinelli and Marco Angelini. In 2000, Giovanni Zobele became club president and the same season Aquila Basket was promoted to the Serie C2, later moving up to the Serie C1 in 2002.^[1]

Long serving coach Maurizio Buscaglia was nominated before the 2003-04 season,^[2] he would help the club win the C1 the next season to be promoted to the fourth Serie B2, adding the C1 Cup with a 77-68 win over Navarra Ferentino.^[1][3] Staying there for four years, it lost the promotion playoffs on game 5 in 2005-06, with Buscaglia leaving the following season. Trento won the 2007-08 regular season but could not obtain promotion to the Divisione Nazionale A until buying Lumezzane's sporting rights in 2009.^[1][3]

For the club's first season in the third division, Vincenzo Esposito – notable for his playing career - was chosen for the coaching job, leading the club to the ninth place. Buscaglia returned to Trento in 2010, guiding the side to eighth in the league, though that meant it had to play in the relegation playoffs as the league was contracting, with their subsequent loss condemning them to relegation.^[4] However, Trento - having earlier confirmed Busacaglia - was granted a wildcard by the league to stay at that level.^[5]

On 18 January 2012, Luigi Longhi replaced Zobele as president. In the course of the same 2011-12 season, Trento earned a promotion to the LegaDue after beating BLS Chieti on 27 May 2012 to win the semifinals series 3-1, they went on to win the league outright after toppling Ferentino in the final. Trento adapted quickly to the professional second division, lifting the LegaDue Cup – organised in the PalaTrento - by beating Pistoia 84-76 in the final, also reaching the promotion playoffs that same season. In 2013-14 it went one better, finishing the regular season in first place before downing Agrigento (3-0) Torino (3-2) and finally Capo d'Orlando (3-0) to earn a historic promotion to the first division Serie A.^[1]

Their first season in the elite was an unanticipated success as the promotees, led by Serie A MVP Tony Mitchell (also league top scorer), finished fourth in the regular season whilst the organisation had two other awardees at the Lega Basket Awards, with Buscaglia coach of the year and GM Salvatore Trainotti best executive (repeating the LegaDue awards they earned in 2014).^[6] Qualifying for the title playoffs for their first season in the elite, Trento won the first game of the quarterfinal series against Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari 81-70 for another record,^[7] but could not make their home advantage count as they then lost a closely contested game at the PalaTrento before being defeated in both away games to the eventual champions.^[3][8] That result did ensure the side would participate in a European competition for the first time ever, earning a place in the second-tier Eurocup for 2015-16.

Current Roster

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Dolomiti Energia Trento roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age PG 3 Poeta, Giuseppe 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 78 kg (172 lb) 30 – 12 September 1985 G 4 Sanders, Jamarr 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 27 – 2 August 1988 F 7 Pascolo, Davide 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 88 kg (194 lb) 25 – 14 December 1990 F/C 8 Baldi Rossi, Filippo 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in) 97 kg (214 lb) 24 – 26 October 1991 PG 10 Forray, Andrés Pablo 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 87 kg (192 lb) 30 – 20 March 1986 F 11 Löfberg, Johan 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 20 – 8 July 1995 G 12 Flaccadori, Diego 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 77 kg (170 lb) 20 – 4 May 1996 C 17 Bertocchi, Edoardo 2.12 m (6 ft 11 in) 19 – 17 May 1996 G 21 Bellan, Simone 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 85 kg (187 lb) 20 – 8 February 1996 G/F 23 Sutton, Dominique 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 96 kg (212 lb) 29 – 20 October 1986 SG 24 Lockett, Trent 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 95 kg (209 lb) 25 – 10 December 1990 C 25 Lechthaler, Luca 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 105 kg (231 lb) 30 – 23 February 1986 F/C 30 Wright, Julian 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 107 kg (236 lb) 28 – 20 May 1987 PG — Cummings, Will 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 84 kg (185 lb) 23 – 7 October 1992	Head coach Maurizio Buscaglia Assistant coach(es) Vincenzo Cavazzana Davide Dusmet Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 31 August 2015

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2	Bench 3
C	Julian Wright	Luca Lechthaler	Edoardo Bertocchi
PF	Davide Pascolo	Filippo Baldi Rossi	Johan Löfberg
SF	Trent Lockett	Dominique Sutton
SG	Jamarr Sanders	Diego Flaccadori	Simone Bellan
PG	Giuseppe Poeta	Andrés Pablo Forray

Season by season

Season	Domestic competitions				Domestic cup		European competitions
	Tier	League	Pos.	Postseason	Tier	Result	Tier	League	Result
2011–12	3	DNA	2	Champions	3	Semifinalist	–
2012–13	2	LegaDue	8	Semifinalist	2	Winner	–
2013–14	2	DNA Gold	1	Champions	2	Runners-up	–
2014–15	1	Serie A	4	Quarterfinalist	1	Quarterfinalist	–
2015–16	1	Serie A		TBD	1	Semifinalist	2	Eurocup	SF

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Divisione Nazionale A Gold
  • Champions: 2014
• LegaDue Cup
  • Winners: 2013
• Divisione Nazionale A
  • Champions: 2012

Notable players

2010's

• Tony Mitchell 1 season: '14-'15
• Brandon Triche 1 season: '13-'14
• Luca Garri 1 season: '12-'13
• Stefano Gentile 1 season: '09-'10
• Davide Pascolo 4 seasons: '11-'present
• Andrés Pablo Forray 4 & 1/2 seasons: '11-'present

Sponsorship names

Throughout the years, due to sponsorship deals, it has been also known as:

• Soci Trento (1995-2005)
• Bitumcalor Trento (2005-2013)
• Aquila Basket Trento (2013-2014)
• Dolomiti Energia Trento (2014–present)

Notes

References

1. "Storia" [History]. AquilaBasket.it (in Italian). Retrieved 31 August 2015.
2. Apicella, Nicola (13 June 2014). "Basket, Trento si prende la A: Non siamo impreparati" [Basketball, Trento grabs the [Serie] A: “We are not unprepared”]. Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 31 August 2015.
3. "Club profile: Dolomiti Energia Trento". EurocupBasketball.com. 3 August 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
4. Peretti, Daniele (7 June 2011). "Il Bitumcalor riparte da Buscaglia" [Bitumcalor restarts with Buscaglia]. TrentinoCorriere delle Alpi.it (in Italian). Retrieved 6 August 2015.
5. "Ripescaggio ufficiale L'Aquila resta in A". L'Adige.it. 13 June 2011.
6. "Basket, Lega Awars 2015: pioggia di premi su Trento, Mitchell MVP di serie A1, Trainotti dirigente dell’anno, Buscaglia coach of the year" [Basketball, Lega Awards 2015: heap of awards for Trento, Mitchell Serie A MVP, Trainotti executive of the year, Buscaglia coach of the year]. GazzettadelleValli.it (in Italian). 8 May 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
7. "Basket, playoff Serie A, quarti gara-1: Milano-Bologna 90-67, Trento-Sassari 81-70" [Basketball, Serie A playoffs, quarterfinals game 1: Milano-Bologna 90-67, Trento-Sassari 81-70]. Gazzetta.it (in Italian). 18 May 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
8. "Basket, play off: Sassari si regala Milano, finisce la favola di Trento" [Basketball, playoffs: Sassari treat themselves to Milano, Trento's fairytale is over]. Repubblica.it (in Italian). 24 May 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.

External links

• Serie A profile (Italian) Retrieved 6 August 2015