Italy - (Video) David Lighty Made First Pro Regular Season Start vs Pesaro!

(Screen Capture - David Lighty - Italy - 10.30.2011)

10.30.2011 - Bennet Cantu 66 vs Scavolini Pesaro 71 - (Serie A - Round Four)
- David Lighty: 8 points (4-5) , 2 rebounds, 1 steal (17 total minutes)

Cantu Update - Bennet Cantu finished the month of October with a 3-1 record in the Italian Serie A & 1-1 in Euroleague play. Following their exhilarating Euroleague opener against SLUC Nancy on 10.19 , Cantu won a hard fought road game (10.23) against Umana Reyer in Venice, Italy (80-76 - D. Lighty - 5 points, 1 board, 1 assist in just 8 minutes). Cantu then traveled to Vitoria, Spain for Euroleague Game #2 (10.26) where they would suffer their first defeat of the season at the hands of a tough Caja Laboral club (81-69 - D. Lighty - one steal, no shot attempts in just 7 minutes).

More Tick (PT) Please - Playing time has been hard to come by for Buckeye rookie David Lighty so far. For one, Bennet Cantu is a veteran European team, and secondly, just about everyone one of their early season contests have been big/important games which may be why Head Coach Andrea Trinchieri is a little reluctant to trust Dave more. Despite not playing as much as he would like, Lighty is visibly in good spirits and looks prepared when on the court.

First Start - David's patience payed off for the Italian League Round 4 game (10.30) vs Scavolini Pesaro. Cantu's starting guard/forward Gianluca Basile sustained an injury in Spain, thus giving way to an opening in Cantu's lineup for the following game. With Basile out, David Lighty (pictured left below: vs Sassari - 10.16) knew he would be playing more than his seven minute per game average against Pesaro..but he probably did not expect Coach Trinchieri to give him the start. With his Mother and Aunt in attendance to see him play for the first time overseas, David Lighty made his first Pro Regular Season start vs Pesaro on October 30.

Cantu vs Pesaro - As we noted above, #4 has looked prepared and ready to ball when he's been out there, and Lighty would get off to a hot start in his first career start. Cantu jumped on Pesaro with a crazy 16-2 opening run in the first quarter. Their run included a couple sweet plays from Lighty, a nice steal and layup plus another coast to coast finish from a loose ball rebound (one man fast break!). Bennet Cantu took a 10 point lead into halftime (37-27), and it looked like they were on their way to a fourth consecutive victory in the Italian League. But Pesaro kept on chipping away at the lead, trailing only by three points (50-47). The fourth quarter was unfortunately owned by Pesaro...they needed to overcome 3 points and won the quarter by 8..giving them a 71-66 final.

David Lighty finished with 8 points, 2 rebounds, and one steal in a total of 17 minutes. Dave started the game, but he did not see much action as the game began to get tighter (Lighty did not play in the 4th quarter..we obviously did not agree with that haha). Still, it was very cool to see Lighty start and hoop out a bit.

BuckeyeBallersTV - David Lighty vs Pesaro - 10.30.2011