2020–21 Virtus Roma season
Italian basketball season
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The 2020–21 season is Virtus Roma's 61st in existence and the club's 2nd consecutive season in the top tier Italian basketball.
| 2020-21 season | |
|---|---|
| Owner | Claudio Toti |
| President | Alessandro Toti |
| Head coach | Piero Bucchi |
| Arena | PalaLottomatica |
| LBA | Disqualified |
| Supercup | Group stage (4th of 4) |
Overview
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
Supplier: Macron
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Players
Current roster
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Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
Depth chart
6+6 format (colours: Italian or homegrown players; foreign players; young players)
Squad changes
In
| 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
| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Age | Moving to | Type | Transfer fee | Date | Source | |
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| 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
| 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
| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Age | Transfer fee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | G | | Samuele Telesca | 17 | Youth system | 9 July 2020 |
Coach
| Nat. | Name | Age. | Previous team | Type | Ends | Date | Source | |
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Piero Bucchi | 61 | JuveCaserta | |
2 + 1 years | June 2021 | 4 March 2018 | [24] |
Competitions
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 |
Rules for classification: All points scored in extra period(s) were not counted in the standings, nor for any tie-break situation.
Serie A
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 |
