In the three quarter-finals in which he eliminated Brescia, he improved in the evaluation and is first in terms of points scored
SASSARI. Numbers may not say everything, but in basketball they have their own why. And they explain a lot of an enterprise on which few would have bet a hole dollar on the eve of the playoff quarter-finals: overturn the home factor with Brescia and go to the semifinals with Milan. While relying on a psychophysical condition that placed him among the most fit formations at the end of the regular season, with 4 successes in a row including a sensational one for the modalities with Virtus, Banco di Sardegna started underdog against a Germani considered the surprise of the season and hardly beatable.
But if it is true that the playoffs are another championship, Sassari wanted to confirm what is obviously not just a saying. Because in the post season, those who have greater mental strength go ahead, those who make the right choices, those who manage to add octane to their fuel starting from their strong points and trying to improve the weak ones. Well, the team of Piero Bucchi (magician in the management of the group, but we already knew it) put an additional booster to their attack, which in the regular season was second with 86.0 points on average per race, even going up to 96.0 in the three races of the quarters, the highest figure among the 8 contenders (the 60 decisive in the first half last Sunday). And this despite the fact that the team’s performance in the triples has dropped, in which Sassari was first with 38.1%, passing to 35.0%. This is because the coach of Sassari managed to make the game more productive within the area, as evidenced by the growth in the percentages from two, which went from 53.5% in the regular season (Dinamo was fourth) to 64.4% (second among the participants in the quarterfinals behind Milan).
But it is also individual growth and the ability to receive a greater contribution from all that make the difference when the struggle gets tough. And so here is that the evaluation of Bilan has skyrocketed (23.5%, first of all players in the quarterfinals, while in the regular season he was not among the top 50), as is evident the growth of Burnell, 19.8 %, Gentile (9.3) and Diop (8.8), while Bendzius (16.0) and Robinson (13.0) are stable and Logan (10.0) drops slightly. And even the points scored speak of growth again with Bilan (16.3 average per game), Burnell (15.8) and the irruption of Kruslin (8.5) and Diop (6.8) that in the previous phase provided a lower contribution.
Finally, there is the data on the team evaluation: from 95.5 in the regular season, Banco has gone up to 109.0, better than Virtus (95.7) and second only to Milan (119.3). Numbers only? Maybe, but maybe that sixth place was really underpowered.