# 2019–20 Reyer Venezia season

The 2019–20 season is Reyer Venezia's 148th in existence and the club's 10th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian basketball.

## Overview

Venezia participates to the 2018-19 edition of the Lega Basket Serie A as the defending champions, after having won in the 2018-19 season.
They won the Italian Cup and they managed to qualify to the playoffs of the EuroCup Basketball.
Unfortunately, though, the 2019-20 season was hit by the coronavirus pandemic that compelled the federation to suspend and later cancel the competition without assigning the title to anyone. Virtus Bologna ended the championship in 1st position. Followed also the early termination of the EuroCup season where Bologna had reached the quarter-finals and Venezia was the only Italian team at winning something, the Italian Cup.

## Kit

Supplier: Erreà / Sponsor: Umana
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## Players
### Current roster

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 | Bench 3 |
| C | Mitchell Watt | Gašper Vidmar | Francesco Pellegrino | |
| PF | Austin Daye | Valerio Mazzola | Ike Udanoh | |
| SF | Michael Bramos | Bruno Cerella | | |
| SG | Jeremy Chappell | Stefano Tonut | Davide Casarin | |
| PG | Andrea De Nicolao | Julyan Stone | Andrew Goudelock | Ariel Filloy |
6+6 format (colours: Italian or homegrown players; foreign players; young players)

### Squad changes
#### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Ends | Transfer fee | Date |
| 12 | PG | Ariel Filloy | 32 | Scandone Avellino | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 5 July 2019 |
| 0 | PF | Ike Udanoh | 29 | Scandone Avellino | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 9 July 2019 |
| 21 | SG | Jeremy Chappell | 32 | New Basket Brindisi | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 22 July 2019 |
| 29 | C | Francesco Pellegrino | 27 | Amici Udinese | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 29 July 2019 |
| 15 | SG | Andrew Goudelock | 30 | Shandong Heroes | 1 year | June 2020 | Undisclosed | 21 October 2019 |

#### Out

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving to | Type | Transfer fee | Date |
| 1 | G/F | D. J. Kennedy | 29 | Pınar Karşıyaka | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 17 | SF | Deron Washington | 33 | Pallacanestro Trieste | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 19 | C | Paul Biligha | 29 | Olimpia Milano | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 21 | G | Marco Giuri | 30 | JuveCaserta | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 77 | SG | Tomáš Kyzlink | 26 | Virtus Roma | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 0 | PG | MarQuez Haynes | 32 | Paris Basketball | mutual consent | Undisclosed | 10 July 2019 |

#### Confirmed

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Ends | Transfer fee | Date |
| 7 | SG | Stefano Tonut | 25 | Pallacanestro Trieste | 2 + 5 years | June 2023 | Free | 1 July 2015 |
| 6 | SF | Michael Bramos | 32 | Panathinaikos | 6 years | June 2021 | Free | 28 August 2015 |
| 10 | PG | Andrea De Nicolao | 28 | Reggio Emilia | 2 + 2 years | June 2021 | Free | 13 July 2017 |
| 50 | C | Mitchell Watt | 29 | Shabab Al Ahli Dubai | 1 + 3 years | June 2021 | Free | 18 July 2017 |
| 30 | G/F | Bruno Cerella | 33 | Olimpia Milano | 1 + 1 + 1 years | June 2020 | Free | 22 August 2017 |
| 9 | PF | Austin Daye | 31 | Hapoel Jerusalem | 2 + 1 years | June 2020 | Free | 29 January 2018 |
| 22 | PF | Valerio Mazzola | 31 | Auxilium Torino | 2 years | June 2020 | Free | 18 July 2018 |
| 5 | PG | Julyan Stone | 30 | Charlotte Hornets | 2 + 1 years | June 2020 + 2021 | Free | 25 July 2018 |
| 14 | C | Gašper Vidmar | 32 | Banvit | 1 + 1 years | June 2020 | Free | 3 October 2018 |

#### Coach

| Nat. | Name | Age. | Last team | Last team | Type | Ends | Date | Source |
| | Walter De Raffaele | 50 | Reyer Venezia (assistant) | | 1 + 1 + 3 | 2021 | 12 March 2016 | |

## Competitions
### SuperCup

Venezia took part in the 25th edition of the Italian Basketball Supercup as the 2019 LBA Finals and Italian Championship winners. They lost in the finals against Dinamo Sassari, team against which Venezia won the championship finals.

### Serie A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification or relegation |
| 5 | Happy Casa Brindisi | 21 | 13 | 8 | 1776 | 1696 | +80 | Qualification for Champions League |
| 6 | Vanoli Cremona | 20 | 12 | 8 | 1627 | 1617 | +10 | |
| 7 | Umana Reyer Venezia | 21 | 11 | 10 | 1638 | 1582 | +56 | Qualification for EuroCup |
| 8 | Pompea Fortitudo Bologna | 21 | 11 | 10 | 1624 | 1670 | −46 | Qualification for Champions League |
| 9 | Dolomiti Energia Trento | 21 | 11 | 10 | 1635 | 1665 | −30 | Qualification for EuroCup |

### EuroCup
#### Regular season

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification |
| 1 | Umana Reyer Venezia | 10 | 8 | 2 | 759 | 713 | +46 | Advance to Top 16 |
| 2 | Partizan NIS | 10 | 7 | 3 | 767 | 722 | +45 | Advance to Top 16 |
| 3 | Tofaş | 10 | 5 | 5 | 804 | 822 | −18 | Advance to Top 16 |
| 4 | Rytas | 10 | 4 | 6 | 800 | 811 | −11 | Advance to Top 16 |
| 5 | Lokomotiv Kuban | 10 | 4 | 6 | 797 | 780 | +17 | |
| 6 | Limoges CSP | 10 | 2 | 8 | 748 | 827 | −79 | |

#### Top 16

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | Qualification |
| 1 | Promitheas | 6 | 4 | 2 | 440 | 383 | +57 | Advance to quarterfinals |
| 2 | Umana Reyer Venezia | 6 | 4 | 2 | 452 | 462 | −10 | Advance to quarterfinals |
| 3 | EWE Baskets Oldenburg | 6 | 2 | 4 | 474 | 501 | −27 | |
| 4 | Germani Brescia Leonessa | 6 | 2 | 4 | 421 | 441 | −20 | |

### Italian Cup

Venezia qualified to the 2020 Italian Basketball Cup having ended the first half of the season in 8th place. They won the competition for the first time in their history.