Basketball, in Bologna we saw a team transformed Robinson and his companions continue the tour de force in Ukraine
SENT TO BOLOGNA. The faces, the approach, the personality, the courage. All right, except the final result. A very good performance does not make spring, but to crown a perfect evening with a heavy and prestigious victory, a trifle was really missing.
A Zaporizhzhia con furore. Coach Piero Bucchi and his Dinamo embark today for Ukraine with a head full of thoughts and even a bit of anger in the body. Sunday’s overtime defeat in the presence of Virtus Segafredo Bologna’s Italian champions left its mark in every sense: on the one hand, confirmation came that after a few weeks of Bucchi treatment, Banco di Sardegna has completely changed its attitude compared to the last few months; on the other hand, the anger for a great opportunity, faded only by the sound of the siren, must be channeled and transformed into a positive charge for the next – very complicated – challenges. Stefano Gentile will not be there, who returned to Sassari yesterday to heal himself after the blow to the quadriceps suffered in training, which made him miss the match in Bologna: the goal is to try to recover him for Sunday. However, the very good sensations of the Segafredo Arena remain, with the great performance of the latest arrival, Gerald Robinson, and the positive response from the whole group.
It tour de force. Tomorrow at 6 pm (7 pm local time) in Zaporizhzhia, about 500 kilometers south of Kiev, the match against Prometey, decisive for the passage of the Champions League round, is scheduled. Then the biancoblù group will return to Italy by taking the road to Venice directly: on Sunday at the Taliercio Dinamo will try to end the negative streak in the league, which reached 6. At that point the external tour de force will close and a new phase will begin, as well decisive.
A double goal. After Venice, four games will be missing at the end of the first round. Based on Banco’s current shaky standings (penultimate at 6 with three other teams), three of these matches will be real head-to-head clashes with a view to salvation: 19 arrives at the Varese building, which has the same points as Dinamo; on the 26th we return to Bologna to challenge Fortitudo, currently last at 4; and after the internal challenge on January 2 against Trento, Devecchi and his companions will fly to Cremona, which is in turn part of the quartet still at an altitude of 6. For Dinamo there is therefore a double mission to try: first of all, of course, disengage from the bottom of the standings by making the most of direct clashes. And then try to hook in extremis, by the end of the first round, the eighth position (currently 6 points away) which guarantees the qualification for the Final Eight of the Italian Cup.
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