Sunday 23 January at 8.45 pm
SASSARI. With the pass for the Italian Cup Final Eight removed at the last minute, Dinamo Banco di Sardegna approaches the second round of the league with new incentives. Apart from the blackout in Cremona after the stop due to Covid, the team of coach Piero Bucchi is different from the one led by Demis Cavina at the beginning of the season. Whatever the faults of the coach chosen in the summer by the president Stefano Sardara and by the general manager Federico Pasquini to replace Gianmarco Pozzecco, the biancoblu benefited from the arrival of a play, Gerald Robinson, and the farewell of Anthony Clammons, never integrated and used in a role not his. Before Bucchi, Filip Kruslin had arrived in Sassari, closing the spaces at Tyus Battle, a talent never expressed at Dinamo. His cut and the rumors of the search for a long on the market have awakened Christian Mekowulu: a mysterious object in the first months at the Banco, more convincing in the latest releases.
Having regained the left side of the ranking and renewed the subscription to the Final Eight, with 10 participations in 11 years, on Sunday at 20.45 captain Devecchi and his teammates leave Brescia, fifth at the halfway point thanks to yesterday’s 110-78 success with Pesaro. “It will be a very demanding match, Brescia has a long roster and is confident”, says Giacomo Baioni, who replaced Bucchi against Trento, positive at Covid and still out of the game. «They are fast, aggressive, run a lot and make the ball go round. We come from a good victory and the conquest of the Final Eight, we want to have a good match, we will need a lot of attention and a clear reading of the match “, adds the former on duty. “I had a great time there, I will always thank you for the warmth of the people and for the opportunity that was given to me.” (Handle).