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Pallacanestro Reggiana, also known for sponsorship reasons as Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia, is an Italian professional basketball team based in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna. It plays in the Serie A and the Eurocup as of the 2015-2016 season. == History == Pallacanestro Reggiana was founded on 3 September 1974 by eight friends who wanted to establish a club that would unite the basketball community of Reggio Emilia. They started to play in the regional Promozione in a white and blue jersey sponsored by Magazzini Jolly, with the season ending with a promotion to the Serie D, in which they stayed a couple of seasons before again moving up, to the Serie C. The 1977-78 pre-season saw the club merge with Cestistica Tricolore and come under the ownership of Cantine Riunite who also started sponsoring the club and changed its colours to white and red in the process. During the season itself, a team led by Gianni Codeluppi earned a promotion to the third division Serie B. The summer again saw an organisational change as the club amalgamanated Pallacanestro Correggio, which led to the arrival of future great Orazio Rustichelli in the squad. On the court, the team struggled, finishing the season at the last place which would have seen it relegated if not for an off-the-court reprieve. Over the next seasons the team established itself in the Serie B without managing to reach the next level, debuting promising youngster Piero Montecchi in the process. Players such as Rustichelli (now captain), Montecchi, Fuss and Zonta helped Pallacanestro Reggiana reach the professional ranks with a win over Necchi Pavia that opened the gates of the second division Serie A2 at the end of the 1981-82. President Enrico Prandi kept Gianni Zappi as coach and recruited Americans Roosevelt Bouie and Rudy Hackett. These players, along with Pino Brumatti among others under new coach Gianfranco Lombardi, would help reach the Serie A anew. They would stay three seasons in the league, reaching the title playoffs in 1985-86 but going down the next season, with Montecchi leaving for Olimpia Milano at the end of the season. Coach Piero Pasini ensured Reggio Emilia only stayed one year away and the team stayed in the Serie A over the following seasons which saw club great Joe Bryant arrive (along with his future superstar son Kobe, who played with the youth side).〔 In 1990 the holding company was brought by Coopsette, with Sidis becoming the team sponsor, the ambitious club reached the Italian Cup Final Four but struggled in the second part of the league season and was relegated. The 1992-93 preseason saw the arrival of a Pallacanestro Reggiana legend in Mike Mitchell, who helped the club return to the elite. Two seasons later the club was back in the second division, following which it decided to bank on its young players such as Alessandro Davoli and Gianluca Basile. Returning to the Serie A in 1997, Reggio Emilia rehired Lombardi as coach, with a young Max Menetti as assistant to guide a team containing players of the caliber of Chris Jent, Diego Pastori, Marcelo Damiao, Gianluca Basile and the evergreen Mike Mitchell. Thereafter came a successful season that saw them reach the title playoffs, downing first Milano then in turn Treviso to reach the semifinals where they exited at the hands of Teamsystem Bologna. The result was nevertheless enough to send the Italian outfit to a European competition for the first time, in the 1999 Korać Cup. Losing Mitchell (now 41) to retirement and Basile to a transfer towards Bologna, they reached the Round of 32 in Europe and stalled at the playoff eightfinals.〔 Two new presidents (Elio Monducci and Chiarino Cimurri) and three different coaches could not prevent the side from falling to the second division at the end of the 1999-00 season. A nearly completely rehauled squad coached by Franco Marcelletti reached the promotion playoffs the next season but lost a heartbreaking game five to Livorno on a last second basket. Staying in the second division but now playing in the newly created LegaDue, Reggio Emilia also made changes, with Stefano Landi becoming president whilst Cimurri was named head of the LegaDue, a reorganisation that also saw Alessandro Dalla Salda instated as general manager. Still coach, Marcelletti recruited Alvin Young during the NBA Summer League, with the American turning into an instant success along with compatriot Kris Clack, as the team reached the playoff finals but found Napoli in their way. A policy change in 2002-03, with Luca Dalmonte brought in as coach and veteran Stefano Rusconi as player, didn't yield better results, on the contrary as the team exited the promotion playoffs in the first round. Dalmonte lost his place to Fabrizio Frates (with Menetti assisting him), who proceeded to sign Kiwane Garris, Marco Mordente, Angelo Gigli and re-sign Alvin Young and Marcelo Damiao, with side avoiding the playoffs altogether as it finished the regular season in first place to grab the promotion.〔 With a similar squad, the team readapted well to the first division, qualifying for the Italian Cup Final Eight before reaching the final, where they finished second best to Benetton Treviso. An anonymous domestic season in 2005-06 (finishing eleventh) was highlighted by good results in the side's ULEB Cup campaign (eligible to Europe's second competition thanks to their cup final) where they survived the regular season and downed Ventspils in the top 16 to reach the quarterfinals, with Hemofarm Vršac ending their run. However, the next season ended in tears as Reggio Emilia were again relegated. They languished in the LegaDue in the subsequent years, even flirting with relegation during the 2010-11 season, saving their skin with a last game win over Veroli combined with other results. In a complete turnaround, the team led by Menetti (who had priorly become head coach) romped to a promotion that they confirmed with a game to spare.〔 The good run of form continued in the Serie A, with Reggio Emilia grabbing a sixth place before taking Roma to seven games in their quarterfinals series.〔 Qualified for another European competition, the third-tier EuroChallenge, a team spearheaded by Final Four MVP Andrea Cinciarini - helped by James White among others - recorded an emphatic 79-65 victory over Triumph Lyubertsy in a packed PalaDozza Bologna arena to win their first even international title on 27 April 2014. On the domestic front they again reached the playoffs but were edged 2-3 by holders Montepaschi Siena in their quarterfinal series, after a controversial defeat in a game 4 played at home with Reggio Emilia 2-1 at the time. The next season saw the stages switched around, with Reggio Emilia underperforming in the 2014–15 Eurocup to exit the competition at the group stage with two wins in ten games. However, their league form proved more resilient as they regrouped from a March 68-118 demolition by Milano, finishing third at the end of the regular season. They would make their home advantage count in the quarterfinal series against Enel Brindisi, winning its three home games to go through. The semifinals against Umana Reyer Venezia had the team with their backs to the wall after a 67-89 defeat in game 5, but they won the next two games to progress to a first ever final. Against Italian Cup and Supercup holders Sassari, the first five games were split between respective home victories with Reggio Emilia favoured. They forced the sixth game in Sassari to three overtimes, with Cinciarini missing a title-winning shot in the dying moments of the fourth quarter, a three from Achille Polonara followed by a steal and layup from Rimantas Kaukėnas put them 5 ahead with seconds left in the first overtime but Sassari came back to force a second overtime, it went back and forth to finish tied and bring another overtime, in which Sassari pulled away for a win. Despite playing game 7 at home and racing into a 21-4 lead early on, Reggio Emilia could not find a response as Sassari gradually clawed back the lead before using a 12-0 fourth-quarter run to first tie then win a closely contested 73-75 game, denying the local fans the capture of a historic Serie A title. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pallacanestro Reggiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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