The outbreak of Covid-19 in the Brindisi home calls into question Wednesday’s recovery and risks sending the calendar into a tailspin
SASSARI. Two victories in four days, against two very different opponents, but obtained with somewhat similar performances. With fifth place now in the safe and the prospect of attempting the overtaking operation against Reyer Venezia, Dinamo can take a breather and think about preparing with the utmost serenity for Sunday’s match against Reggio Emilia.
At the end of the regular season of Serie A there are two days left and with the recovery played two nights ago against Trento, the Sassari of Gianmarco Pozzecco have almost caught up with the calendar: in addition to the match with the Unahotels and the closure in the house of Cantù, the recovery of the PalaPentassuglia against Brindisi is missing. This race, skipped just over a month ago due to the Covid-19 outbreak at Dinamo, has been rescheduled for next Wednesday, but the news coming from Salento raises many doubts.
The group led by Frank Vitucci had to suspend training and is in quarantine: in the last round of swabs carried out, the cases of positivity between players and staff reached ten and the local ASL decided to impose a stop on the club. With the result that Sunday’s match against Trento has been postponed, but at this point even the recovery against Banco di Sardegna is very much at risk.
To try not to distort the final sprint of the regular season, in recent days the basketball league has opted for a one-week postponement of the last round, in the hope that Brindisi will be able to recover and then take the field. But with this postponement to Monday 10 May, the playoffs will be dangerously close, with the quarterfinals scheduled to start on Thursday 13. What would happen if Brindisi were unable to take the field? Impossible to postpone the playoffs, because the Pre-Olympic is looming. For any races not played, the possibility of assigning points in the standings on the basis of the coefficient of seasonal victories was hypothesized, but this would be an option that is not codified and therefore not practicable. There would then be the option to shorten the playoffs, but even in this case the idea would not be viable. The extreme ratio would be the attribution of the defeat to the table for the team not able to take the field. Nobody likes this possibility, not even Dinamo, which would also have an advantage. And so, in the hope that the situation will settle in time, the League is preparing to manage yet another hot potato of a really complicated season.
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