At 3 pm in Bologna the quarter-final against Brindisi: after the first phase in a row, a match with no return arrives
SASSARI. It certainly cannot be said that so far it has been joked, certainly from today it will be serious. The Italian Super Cup gets underway and Dinamo is ready for the first “no return” appointment of its season.
At 3 pm at the Unipol Arena in Casalecchio di Reno, Demis Cavina’s Sassari will face the Happy Casa Brindisi: it is already an inside-out match, therefore, with the victory that guarantees access to the semifinal on Monday, against the winner of the challenge of noon, between Vuelle Pesaro and Reyer Venezia.
It will also be an early season competition that everyone faces as if it were the pre-season, as many technicians have said, but in the meantime everyone wants to win it and moving forward guarantees prestige and a load of optimism to carry around for the rest of the season: it is no exception. Dinamo, which among the eight teams present at the Bologna event, is second only to Olimpia Milano in terms of the number of previous editions won (the current Treviso is another company compared to Benetton of the four victories). Twice the trophy landed in Sassari. In 2014 at the PalaSerradimigni, at the start of the magical season of the Triplete, and in 2019 at the PalaFlorio in Bari, when the biancoblù of Gianmarco Pozzecco took a small but immediate revenge against Venice, three months after the final scudetto.
Banco di Sardegna arrives at this appointment on the strength of a good condition, which gradually improved during the first phase. Coach Cavina, who has had the opportunity several times to lick his mustaches for the offensive performances of the boys, indicated the growth of the defensive phase as a primary objective, receiving some first comforting signals four days ago against Varese.
«I am curious – said the biancoblù coach – to see the teams that have not yet played official matches to test where we are. Brindisi is one of these, for what it has done in recent years and what it is still doing ».
As for the general condition, the Banco is still devoid of the long Ousmane Diop, but in the meantime it has had the opportunity to put fuel in Borra’s engine, as well as having worked on buffer solutions, with Burnell and Treier approaching the basket. . The challenge of muscles, centimeters and aids in the colored area will in all likelihood be one of the keys to today’s race. The race to the semifinal can begin.