Basketball, the latest performances have highlighted a general disconnect. Company and staff at work to re-motivate the disappointing Clemmons, Mekowulu and Battle
SENT TO MILAN. The accounts certainly do not add up, but perhaps it is still a bit early to make the rags fly. There is maretta, at Dinamo, and this is undeniable after three consecutive defeats and the clear general involution that led to the blow to Milan.
In the spotlight, however, there are the increasingly poor performances of at least three players and the post-match statements of coach Demis Cavina. The disconnect between a part of the team and the coaching staff has officially become a fracture with the statements made in the press room by Cavina: the coach has exposed himself clearly, pointing the finger at Clemmons and Mekowulu and partially saving Battle, struggling with intestinal problems, thus drawing a clear line at this point.
On the one hand there are therefore these three elements (two would be from the starting lineup), which in the last period have undergone an impressive involution, coming to produce all together, in Sunday’s match in Assago, the beauty of 6 points and 4 rebounds. . Leaving aside for a moment the speeches related to the characteristics of Clemmons (too little play, too little in rhythm), it is possible that the perky Mekowulu of last season and twenty days ago has become a wreck, and that the two American outsiders after a brilliant pre-season have turned into two total schiappe? Questions to which the technical staff and the players themselves will have to give an answer soon, perhaps through a clarification in the locker room and then, hopefully, directly on the parquet.
To date, Banco di Sardegna is a low-cut team that travels at at least two different speeds. The paradox is that the Italian park (including Treier and Diop), which also has neither a top player nor an element capable of changing a game on its own (the only one, for experience and curriculum, would be Gentile), is in somehow saving the shack along with Logan and Bendzius. The American play and the Lithuanian winger, however, are the first “victims” of the traps of the opposing defenses, which isolate them and exhaust them with continuous doubling.
The return of Diop adds solutions, athleticism and energy, but is destined to definitively relegate the long escorts Borra (already used very little) and Gandini to mothballs. With 13 men now available and the rotations that will extend to 9, Cavina and his staff are called to a complicated job of mending on a technical and mental level, also with the help of the company. Only this operation, absolutely urgent, will tell if only a line has been drawn at the Forum or if a fracture has occurred. In the second case, some decision will have to be made sooner or later.
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