The eco of BasketBall Generatio’s event in Turin still resounds in local and national media, and provides fertile ground for discussion on Montepaschi’s youth project and the significance an entire basketball movement could have. The Reppublica’s Walter Fuochi explains his point of view:

“We often hear talk about youth projects, about how we need to again launch the “Italian school”, how we need to let kids play in order give the public back a championship that’s more “national”, whereas now it’s more international. Then, we also need to talk more about quality, and that’s a discussion that could get us pretty far.”

We hear a lot of people talk about how to bring kids into the gym – the arenas – so they can wind up on first teams. We need to do things like Siena does.  Mens Sana often comes off as the movement’s cannibal club, like a club that having forged an extremely strong team, then reaps big results, big trophies and big international participation, and adds Americans and Europeans to the team to create a sort of multinational organization and so the rest doesn’t matter. That’s a myth that must be undone. What Siena does with the youth is always well done.  It’s always done perfectly and if worse comes to worst, they won’t become players. At leas they’ll have fun as spectators.”