101 Greats of European Basketball

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win over Italy); and at the 1981 EuroBasket in Nantes
(Italy’s first win against Spain by the score of 105-96
featured 12 points from Marzorati). Between 1977
and 1981, Cantu – under the names Forst, Gabetti and
Squib – played five Saporta Cup finals and won four of
them, losing only to its archrival, Varese, by 90-88 after
overtime. In all of those finals, Marzorati had a protagonist’s
role, together with Recalcati, Antonello Riva,
Fabrizio Della Fiori, Renzo Bariviera, John Newman,
Tom Boswell and Bruce Flowers. In the 1981 final, Cantu
defeated the Barcelona team of Juan Antonio San Epifanio,
Joan Creus, Nacho Solozabal, Chicho Sibilio, Jeff
Ruland and Mike Phillips.
But the best years for Cantu were yet to come. After
a first failed attempt in 1975-76, when the team reached
the semifinals but lost to its nemesis Varese, and after
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