Basketball, two thirds of the season the biancoblù are in full swing for the goal Very short ranking in the central part, the head-to-head matches will make the difference
SASSARI. To launch the sprint it is still very early, but while remaining firmly glued to the saddle you can begin to look towards the horizon. With the match played on Sunday against Tortona, the twentieth of its regular season, Dinamo surpassed the banner of 10 matches on arrival.
Partial budget. At two thirds of the way, the current sixth place, with 10 wins and as many defeats, can be considered quite satisfactory. Especially if we consider all the tugs (change in the run of the coach and two Americans) and the setbacks (double cluster of covids less than two months apart, long times for Diop’s recovery) with which the biancoblù have had a what to do from last summer to today.
Short-term goals. Exactly four months after the arrival of coach Piero Bucchi in Sassari and after various adjustments at the market level, Banco di Sardegna has taken on a by now clear appearance at the team level. After the victories in Trento and Trieste, the knockout with Tortona does not erase the good impressions in terms of mentality, amalgamation, play and general form. Now the main objective on a technical level is to insert the latest arrival, Miro Bilan, in the gears, which if used in an optimal way can become an illegal weapon in the Italian championship.
In pursuit of the playoffs. At the end of the regular season there are 9 days to go, but for Dinamo there will be 10 games to play, with the recovery still to be fixed against Virtus Bologna. The enormous difference in level between the two leaders (Olimpia Milano at 36 and Virtus at 34) has effectively prevented the ranking from shelling. Thus, behind the surprising Brescia (28 points after reaching 10 consecutive victories), the difference between fourth and fourteenth place is just 6 points and within this range, which goes from 22 to 16, there are at the moment the beauty of 11 teams. All, without exception, with more than a chance to reach a place in the top eight. Dinamo still has to face both Milan and Virtus (both in Piazzal Segni), the two Cinderellas (Cremona outside and Fortitudo at home), as well as 6 of the other 10 teams that are part of the mid-ranking group: we start already on Sunday with the first of the direct clashes, in Bologna against Unahotels Reggio Emilia, which will take the field tonight in the return match of the quarter-finals of the Europe Cup. Against Legia Warsaw, Attilio Caja’s team will start from the +3 obtained in Poland. Returning to the calendar, Treviso and Venice still have to arrive in Sassari, while Logan and his teammates will have to visit Pesaro, Naples and Varese.
Naples hunts Sacripanti. Gevi Napoli has exonerated the coach Pino Sacripanti, who was fatal in the home defeat in the postponement on Monday evening against a Varese in full recovery. For the Neapolitan team it was the ninth defeat in the last 10 challenges. The candidates for the succession on the bench are Maurizio Buscaglia and Cesare Pancotto. Napoli, which after 11 days was even third in the standings, will host Dinamo on the third to last day.