2021–22 Pallacanestro Reggiana season

Pallacanestro Reggiana
2021–22 season
Owner	Stefano Landi; Veronica Bartoli; Enrico San Pietro; Graziano Sassi; Andrea Baroni
President	Maria Licia Ferrarini
Head coach	Attilio Caja
Arena	PalaBigi
LBA	Regular season
Europe Cup	Runners-up
Supercup	Group stage (2nd of 3)
	← 2020–21

The 2020–21 season is Reggio Emilia's 48th in existence and the club's 11th consecutive season in the top tier Italian basketball.

Kit

Supplier: Macron / Sponsor: UNAHOTELS

Players

Current roster

UNAHOTELS Reggio Emilia roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
G	1	Thompson Jr., Stephen	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	27 – (1997-03-23)23 March 1997
F/C	5	Hopkins, Mikael	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	105 kg (231 lb)	31 – (1993-06-23)23 June 1993
PG	7	Candi, Leonardo (C)	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	27 – (1997-03-30)30 March 1997
PF	8	Baldi Rossi, Filippo	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)	97 kg (214 lb)	33 – (1991-10-26)26 October 1991
G/F	12	Strautiņš, Artūrs	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	26 – (1998-10-23)23 October 1998
PG	13	Crawford, Bryant	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	27 – (1997-03-21)21 March 1997
PG	20	Cinciarini, Andrea	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	38 – (1986-06-21)21 June 1986
PF	23	Johnson, Justin	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	108 kg (238 lb)	28 – (1996-05-23)23 May 1996
F	31	Olisevičius, Osvaldas	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	90 kg (198 lb)	32 – (1993-01-10)10 January 1993
PF	35	Diouf, Mouhamet	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	105 kg (231 lb)	23 – (2001-09-10)10 September 2001
G	55	Larson, Tyler	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	33 – (1991-12-31)31 December 1991

Head coach

Attilio Caja

Assistant coach(es)

Federico Fucà
Francesco Taccetti

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: February 28, 2022

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

Depth chart

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Mikael Hopkins	Mouhamet Diouf
PF	Justin Johnson	Filippo Baldi Rossi
SF	Osvaldas Olisevičius	Artūrs Strautiņš
SG	Stephen Thompson Jr.	Leonardo Candi	Federico Bonacini
PG	Andrea Cinciarini	Bryant Crawford	Tyler Larson

(colours: Italian or homegrown players; foreign players; young players)

Squad changes

In

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	Moving from	Type	Ends	Transfer fee	Date	Source
12	SF	Artūrs Strautiņš	22	Pallacanestro Varese	1+1 years	June 2022 + 2023	Free	4 July 2021	^[1]
31	F	Osvaldas Olisevičius	28	Medi Bayreuth	1 year	June 2022	Free	10 July 2021	^[2]
13	PG	Bryant Crawford	24	Juventus Utena	2 year	June 2023 (opt. 2022)	Free	11 July 2021	^[3]
1	G	Stephen Thompson Jr.	24	Stella Azzurra Roma	2 years (opt. 2022)	June 2023	Free	16 July 2021	^[4]
5	F/C	Mikael Hopkins	28	Cedevita Olimpija	1 year	June 2022	Free	1 August 2021	^[5]
20	PG	Andrea Cinciarini	35	Olimpia Milano	3 years	June 2024	Undisclosed	10 August 2021	^[6]
	G	Tyler Larson^{[Note IN]}	30	VL Pesaro	4 months	June 2022	Undisclosed	28 February 2022	^[7]

^
In players: Players who signed after the beginning of the season

Out

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	Moving to	Type	Transfer fee	Date	Source
77	SG	Tomáš Kyzlink	27	USK Praha	Exit option	Undisclosed	25 May 2021	^[8]^[9]
0	SG	Brynton Lemar	26	Enisey Krasnoyarsk	End of contract	Free	1 July 2021	^[10]
3	SG	Petteri Koponen	33	Helsinki Seagulls	End of contract	Free	1 July 2021	^[11]
11	F	Brandon Taylor	26	BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque	End of contract	Free	1 July 2021	^[12]
14	G	Marco Giannini	19	Lions Bisceglie	End of contract	Free	1 July 2021	^[13]
15	C	Frank Elegar	35	Napoli Basket	End of contract	Free	1 July 2021	^[14]

Confirmed

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	Moving from	Type	Ends	Transfer fee	Date	Source
7	PG	Leonardo Candi	24	Fortitudo Bologna	5 year	June 2022	Free	22 June 2017	^[15]
35	PF	Mouhamet Diouf	19	youth team		June 2023	Youth system	September 2019
32	G	Federico Bonacini	22	Pallacanestro Trapani	Return from loan		Free	1 July 2020
8	PF	Filippo Baldi Rossi	29	Virtus Bologna	2 years	June 2022	Undisclosed	16 July 2020	^[16]
23	PF	Justin Johnson	24	Pistoia Basket 2000	1 + 2 years (opt. out 2022)	June 2023	Free	19 August 2020	^[17]^[18]
16	C	Ibrahima Cham	17	youth team			Youth system	September 2020

Coach

Coach Maurizio Buscaglia was replaced by Antimo Martino but his contract was valid until he was called by Brescia for the role of head coach.^[19]

Nat.	Name	Age.	Previous team		Type	Ends	Date	Source
	Attilio Caja	60	Pallacanestro Varese		2 years	June 2022	16 March 2021	^[20]

On loan

Pos.	Name	Age	Moving from	Moving to	Date	Contract	Ends
G	Alessandro Cipolla	21	Stella Azzurra Roma	Urania Milano^[21]^[22]	20 July 2021	4 years^[23]	June 2024
G	Carlo Porfilio	20	Reggio Emilia	Pallacanestro Biella^[24]^[25]	28 July 2021
PG	Jacopo Soviero	20	Bologna Basket 2016	Pallacanestro Biella^[24]^[25]	28 July 2021	^[26]

Competitions

Supercup

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Umana Reyer Venezia	4	4	0	329	281	+48	Advance to Final Eight
2	UnaHotels Reggio Emilia	4	2	2	302	284	+18
3	Fortitudo Bologna	4	0	4	270	336	−66

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
5	Umana Reyer Venezia	30	17	13	2331	2297	+34	34	Qualification to Playoffs
6	Banco di Sardegna Sassari	30	17	13	2541	2449	+92	34
7	UNAHOTELS Reggio Emilia	30	15	15	2409	2401	+8	30
8	Carpegna Prosciutto Pesaro	30	14	16	2408	2518	−110	28
9	Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste	30	14	16	2390	2464	−74	28

Source: LBA

Europe Cup

Regular season

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Avtodor	6	5	1	562	463	+99	11	Advance to second round
2	Reggiana	6	4	2	497	457	+40	10	Advance to second round
3	Casademont Zaragoza	6	2	4	484	515	−31	8
4	Hapoel Gilboa Galil	6	1	5	443	551	−108	7

Source: Groups Standings

Second round

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Reggiana	6	5	1	408	402	+6	11	Advance to Quarter Finals
2	Hakro Merlins Crailsheim	6	3	3	473	453	+20	9	Advance to Quarter Finals
3	Telenet Giants Antwerp	6	2	4	493	475	+18	8
4	Kyiv-Basket	6	2	4	374	418	−44	7

Source: Second Round Standings

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UnaHotels Reggio Emilia	151–143	Legia Warsaw	71–68	80–75

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UnaHotels Reggio Emilia	164–146	Bakken Bears	72–74	92–72

Finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bahçeşehir Koleji	–	UnaHotels Reggio Emilia	20 Apr	27 Apr

References

^ "Arturs Strautins torna in biancorosso". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 4 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Colpo lituano per la UNAHOTELS, ingaggiato Osvaldas Olisevicius". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 10 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Firmato lo statunitense Bryant Crawford". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 11 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "UNAHOTELS, ingaggiato "Stevie" Thompson". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 16 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "UNAHOTELS, sotto canestro c'è Mikael Hopkins". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 1 August 2020.
^ "Andrea Cinciarini è tornato!". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 10 August 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "La Unahotels Aggiunge Tyler Larson Al Suo Organico". Sportando. 27 February 2022.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Esercitata l'opzione di uscita dal contratto di Tomas Kyzlink" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 25 May 2021.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ @uskpraha (20 September 2021). "Tomáš Kyzlink se představí znovu v dresu USK Praha" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ "Лемар Бринтон – новый игрок «Енисея»" (in Russian). basket-enisey.ru. 9 September 2021.
^ "Nyt se on virallista: Petteri Koponen saapuu Seagullsiin!". helsinkiseagulls.com (in Finnish). 13 August 2021.
^ "Brandon Taylor nouveau meneur du BCM". bcmbasket.com (in French). 10 August 2021.
^ "I Lions pescano in Serie A con l'innesto di Marco Giannini". lionsbasketbisceglie.com (in Italian). 26 July 2021.
^ "Primo colStefano Sacripanti site:napolibasket.itpo di mercato: Frank Elegar è il nuovo pivot della Gevi". napolibasket.it (in Italian). 21 July 2021.
^ "Firmato Leonardo Candi con un accordo quinquennale" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 22 June 2017.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Filippo Baldi Rossi è biancorosso!". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 16 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "UNAHOTELS, firmato Justin Johnson". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 19 August 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Justin Johnson resta in biancorosso". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 21 August 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Risolto il contratto di Maurizio Buscaglia" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 1 December 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Attilio Caja è il nuovo allenatore della Pallacanestro Reggiana" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 16 March 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Alessandro Cipolla ceduto in prestito all'Urania Milano". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 20 July 2021.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Alessandro Cipolla è il primo innesto Under della stagione 21/22". uraniabasket.it (in Italian). 21 July 2021.
^ "Primo contratto professionistico per Alessandro Cipolla". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 31 July 2019.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b "I "baby" Porfilio e Soviero in prestito a Biella". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 28 July 2021.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b "Il roster 2021/22 si arricchisce dei giovani Jacopo Soviero e Carlo Porfilio". pallacanestrobiella.it (in Italian). 28 July 2021.
^ "Primo contratto professionistico per Carlo Porfilio". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 6 March 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[cnote_Note_IN] 
In players: Players who signed after the beginning of the season

[1] "Arturs Strautins torna in biancorosso". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 4 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[2] "Colpo lituano per la UNAHOTELS, ingaggiato Osvaldas Olisevicius". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 10 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[3] "Firmato lo statunitense Bryant Crawford". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 11 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[4] "UNAHOTELS, ingaggiato "Stevie" Thompson". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 16 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[5] "UNAHOTELS, sotto canestro c'è Mikael Hopkins". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 1 August 2020.

[6] "Andrea Cinciarini è tornato!". pallacanestroreggiana.it. 10 August 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[7] "La Unahotels Aggiunge Tyler Larson Al Suo Organico". Sportando. 27 February 2022.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[8] "Esercitata l'opzione di uscita dal contratto di Tomas Kyzlink" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 25 May 2021.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[9] @uskpraha (20 September 2021). "Tomáš Kyzlink se představí znovu v dresu USK Praha" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

[10] "Лемар Бринтон – новый игрок «Енисея»" (in Russian). basket-enisey.ru. 9 September 2021.

[11] "Nyt se on virallista: Petteri Koponen saapuu Seagullsiin!". helsinkiseagulls.com (in Finnish). 13 August 2021.

[12] "Brandon Taylor nouveau meneur du BCM". bcmbasket.com (in French). 10 August 2021.

[13] "I Lions pescano in Serie A con l'innesto di Marco Giannini". lionsbasketbisceglie.com (in Italian). 26 July 2021.

[14] "Primo colStefano Sacripanti site:napolibasket.itpo di mercato: Frank Elegar è il nuovo pivot della Gevi". napolibasket.it (in Italian). 21 July 2021.

[15] "Firmato Leonardo Candi con un accordo quinquennale" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 22 June 2017.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[16] "Filippo Baldi Rossi è biancorosso!". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 16 July 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[17] "UNAHOTELS, firmato Justin Johnson". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 19 August 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[18] "Justin Johnson resta in biancorosso". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 21 August 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[19] "Risolto il contratto di Maurizio Buscaglia" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 1 December 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[20] "Attilio Caja è il nuovo allenatore della Pallacanestro Reggiana" (in Italian). pallacanestroreggiana.it. 16 March 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[21] "Alessandro Cipolla ceduto in prestito all'Urania Milano". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 20 July 2021.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[22] "Alessandro Cipolla è il primo innesto Under della stagione 21/22". uraniabasket.it (in Italian). 21 July 2021.

[23] "Primo contratto professionistico per Alessandro Cipolla". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 31 July 2019.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[profilio_soviero_reg-24] "I "baby" Porfilio e Soviero in prestito a Biella". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 28 July 2021.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[profilio_soviero_biel-25] "Il roster 2021/22 si arricchisce dei giovani Jacopo Soviero e Carlo Porfilio". pallacanestrobiella.it (in Italian). 28 July 2021.

[26] "Primo contratto professionistico per Carlo Porfilio". pallacanestroreggiana.it (in Italian). 6 March 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

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2021–22 Pallacanestro Reggiana season

Kit

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Squad changes

In

Out

Confirmed

Coach

On loan

Competitions

Supercup

Serie A

Europe Cup

Regular season

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

References

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