Basketball, at 18.30 in Bologna the biancoblù face Reggio Emilia: playoff points are up for grabs
SASSARI. The road to the playoffs passes through the Via Emilia. The path to be tackled is still long, but the points up for grabs tonight have a particular specific weight: at 6.30 pm Dinamo visits the Unahotels Reggio Emilia at the Unipol Arena in Bologna with the aim of immediately recovering what is left on the field. week ago against Tortona.
The setback against the third force of the championship slowed the disruptive recovery of Piero Bucchi’s boys, who are now part of the group placed between the sixth and the tenth position. Two points higher is Reggio Emilia, which arrives at this confrontation with the highest level of confidence but perhaps not exactly in the best physical conditions: the red and white have lost the long Momo Diouf for a few weeks and played in Fiba this week. Europe Cup, winning the second match with Legia Warsaw and after an overtime detaching the ticket for the semifinal, the opposite of Dinamo, in short, which had time during the week to work on the inclusion of Miro Bilan but who, on a mental level , must definitively get rid of the waste from last Sunday’s race, in which Tortona won and convinced on the parquet in Piazzale Segni.
At least two possible keys to this afternoon’s match: control of the pace with the challenge between the two point guards. On the one hand Andrea Cinciarini, who travels at a rate of 10 assists per game, and on the other Gerald Robinson, fresh off the company’s record of assists and second overall in the ranking with 8.9. The American of Banco di Sardegna is also leader of Serie A in recoveries (2.3) and in individual evaluation, with 23.6. The other “hot” area of the parquet will be the one close to the basket: Reggio, as mentioned, will have to do without a good backup like Diouf and will have to work very well with Hopkins, Johnson and Baldi Rossi (former Academy Cagliari) to contain a Dinamo that at this point can really count on many valid alternatives in the area with Bilan, Diop, Bendzius and Treier if necessary. remains very short, two consecutive setbacks could make the road to the playoffs very steep again.
Also watch out for the double comparison: Dinamo won by 3 in the overtime, with the two meteors Clemmons and Battle authors of 36 points in pairs. Now there is a very different Dinamo, this Reggiana cannot be trusted at all.