# 2019–20 Victoria Libertas Pesaro season

The 2019–20 season is Victoria Libertas Pesaro's 74th in existence and the club's 13th consecutive season in the top flight of Italian basketball.

## Overview

For the 2019-20 season, Pesaro entrusts the team to the young and promising coach Federico Perego, coming from a 5 years experience in the German Basketball Bundesliga as assistant coach of Brose Bamberg and head coach in the second half of his last year.
But the season has an horrible start with a streak of 10 consecutive losses that forces the team to replace Perego with Giancarlo Sacco. Sacco's nomination is a comeback as he started his coaching career with Pesaro in 1984 until 1987 and again as head coach in the 1998–99 season.
However, even with the new coach, Pesaro did not manage to interrupt the losing streak until the first match of the second half of the season against Fortitudo Bologna, after 16 consecutive losses.
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. Pesaro ended the championship in the last 17th position with only one match won.

## Kit

Supplier: Erreà / Sponsor: Prosciutto Carpegna DOP
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## Players

The team composition is the same as the last game played on February 9 before the interruption of the championship due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Before the official conclusion of the season, four players left the team. Clint Chapman first and Jaylen Barford, who moved to Virtus Roma, left in search for better opportunities, while Troy Williams and Zach Thomas were released after the pandemic to rejoin their families in the US.

### 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 |
| C | Leonardo Totè | Simone Zanotti |
| PF | Paul Eboua | Beniamino Basso |
| SF | Lorenzo Calbini | Nicolas Alessandrini |
| SG | Federico Miaschi | |
| PG | Vasilije Pušica | Federico Mussini |
5+5 format (colours: Italian or homegrown players; foreign players; young players)

### Squad changes
#### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Ends | Transfer fee | Date |
| 11 | SG | Federico Miaschi | 19 | Trapani | loan contract (from Venezia) | June 2020 | Free | 29 June 2019 |
| 4 | PG | Federico Mussini | 23 | Reggio Emilia | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 5 July 2019 |
| 35 | SF | Leonardo Totè | 21 | Aurora Jesi | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 6 July 2019 |
| 12 | SF | Paul Eboua | 19 | Roseto Sharks | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 9 July 2019 |
| 0 | PG | Jaylen Barford | 23 | Greensboro Swarm | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 12 July 2019 |
| 23 | PF | Zach Thomas | 23 | Okapi Aalstar | 2 years | June 2021 | Free | 17 July 2019 |
| 3 | G/F | Henri Drell | 19 | Baunach Young Pikes | 3 years | June 2022 | Free | 19 July 2019 |
| 8 | G | Vasilije Pušica | 23 | Partizan Belgrade | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 3 August 2019 |
| 16 | C | Tautvydas Lydeka | 35 | Derthona Basket | 2 months | October 2019 | Free | 31 August 2019 |
| 13 | C | Clint Chapman | 30 | Rasta Vechta | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 1 October 2019 |
| 5 | SF | Troy Williams | 24 | Stockton Kings | 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 12 December 2019 |

#### Out

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving to | Moving to | Type | Transfer fee | Date |
| 1 | SG | James Blackmon | 24 | Aquila Basket Trento | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 2 | PF | Erik McCree | 25 | BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 3 | PG | Dominic Artis | 25 | Dąbrowa Górnicza | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 7 | G/F | Lamond Murray | 24 | Rethymno Cretan Kings | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 9 | PG | Mark Lyons | 29 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 20 | C | Andrea Ancellotti | 31 | Latina Basket | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 32 | PG | Diego Monaldi | 26 | Napoli Basket | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 35 | F/C | Aleksandr Šaškov | 19 | Olimpia Milano | | return from loan | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 44 | G/F | Dez Wells | 27 | San Miguel Beermen | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 55 | C | Egidijus Mockevičius | 26 | Fuenlabrada | | end of contract | Free | 1 July 2019 |
| 16 | C | Tautvydas Lydeka | 36 | Sintek–Dzūkija | | end of contract | Free | 1 November 2019 |
| 13 | C | Clint Chapman | 30 | free agent | free agent | mutual consent | Undisclosed | 17 February 2020 |
| 0 | PG | Jaylen Barford | 24 | Virtus Roma | | mutual consent | Undisclosed | 19 February 2020 |
| 5 | SF | Troy Williams | 24 | free agent | free agent | mutual consent | Undisclosed | 9 March 2020 |
| 23 | PF | Zach Thomas | 23 | free agent | free agent | mutual consent | Undisclosed | 10 March 2020 |

#### Confirmed

| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Age | Moving from | Moving from | Type | Ends | Transfer fee | Date | Source |
| 41 | C | | Simone Zanotti | 31 | San Crispino Basket P.S. Elpidio | | 1 + 1 year | June 2020 | Free | 11 July 2018 | |

#### Coach

| Nat. | Name | Age. | Previous team | Previous team | Type | Ends | Date | Replaces | Replaces | Date | Type |
| | Giancarlo Sacco | 62 | Legnano Basket Knights | | 1 year | 2020 | 5 December 2019 | | Federico Perego | 5 December 2019 | sacked |
| | Federico Perego | 34 | Brose Bamberg | | 2 years | 2021 | 14 June 2019 | | Matteo Boniciolli | 14 May 2019 | resigned |

#### Unsuccessful deals

The following deal never activated and the player's contract was withdrawn before the beginning of the season.
| Signing date | Withdrawal date | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Age | Moving from | Moving from | Moved to | Moved to | Type |
| 5 August 2019 | 22 August 2019 | F/C | | DeJuan Blair | 30 | | Austin Spurs | 1 year | free agent | free agent |

## Competitions
### Serie A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
| 13 | De' Longhi Treviso | 21 | 8 | 13 | 1620 | 1664 | −44 |
| 14 | Virtus Roma | 21 | 7 | 14 | 1639 | 1787 | −148 |
| 15 | OriOra Pistoia | 21 | 7 | 14 | 1559 | 1735 | −176 |
| 16 | Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste | 21 | 6 | 15 | 1574 | 1690 | −116 |
| 17 | Carpegna Prosciutto Basket Pesaro | 20 | 1 | 19 | 1583 | 1849 | −266 |