Sassaresi knocked out at the Unipol Arena in Bologna at the end of a hard-fought match A triple by Bendzius saves Banco with 11 “from the end, but the hosts have more
SENT TO BOLOGNA. Both wanted to win it, both tried to lose it, in the end the contender who made fewer mistakes during the overtime won. A solid low-speed Dynamo crashes at the penultimate corner in the presence of Unahotels Reggio Emilia in gas, which with yesterday’s victory makes 6 in the last 8.
Double slap. At the Unipol Arena in Bologna it ends 85-81 and for Piero Bucchi’s boys it is a knockout that hurts: first of all for the failed assault on fourth place, then because the +4 allows Attilio Caja’s team to overturn the goal difference . In the background, a good performance by the Sassari, who in the first 35 minutes were practically always ahead, but who paid dearly for the too many offensive rebounds granted (14 to 2) and the negative performance of a Bilan still completely out. from the game.
More flaws than recriminations. In a chess game that has at times become a Greco-Roman wrestling match, Dinamo hooks the overtime with a half miracle, climbing from 70-66 in the last 70 seconds of regulation time thanks to two free throws by Robinson and a triple of Bendzius at 11 “. And in extra time, after starting very badly (77-71 after 1’20 “) she gets back on track in an amen, thanks to two good defenses and the baskets of Kruslin and Robinson. The last train passes less than 3 ‘, 77-76 ball in hand, when a far from inspired Robinson gives yet another ball to the Reggio players, who overturn and find Baldi Rossi’s triple. With the referees letting it go a bit too much, the Banco collects immediately after the Strautins grave bomb. In short, despite the courage and the desire to fight until the end, the Dinamo match was in fact over just beyond the middle of the third period: from 59-64 ball in hand, Sassari began to take on water and the disaster rebounded. he put Reggio in a position to take her home.
What is there to save. Yet not everything is to be thrown away, on the contrary. Dinamo, as mentioned, in the context of an unspectacular game but with absolutely top-level technical tactical content, sailed for a long time with the bow ahead. After a first period conditioned by the many turnovers (19-16 with a final sprint by the hosts), Bucchi’s boys took control of the game, with a careful defense and good percentages from beyond the arc, with Logan and Bendzius nice warm. A blaze from the American gives the Sassari team a +7, 22-29 at 6’15 ”from the break, with Bilan managing to beat the only shots of his game before the break (34-39). The attitude of the third period was also very positive, when Hopkins began to do damage in the Sassari area, but the biancoblù continued to maintain a minimum advantage, responding promptly to every red and white break: thus when Reggio dates back to 46 from 39-45 -45, after the timeout of Bucchi the Diop-Logan couple still stretches (46-51). Same script after the 49-53 of the third siren: when Reggio found 5 points in a row with Strautins (56-55), Logan, Bendzius and Bilan responded immediately, bringing Banco back to +5, 56-61, at 5’54 “From the end of the race.
The crossroads. It is at this stage that Dinamo found the perhaps decisive crossroads and took the wrong direction. Caja has fished in a Thopson up to that moment anonymous the wild card with which to demolish a Robinson already extinguished of him, and in the meantime Reggio’s superiority in rebound has become a carnage. The Sassari continued to defend hard, but in the long run the second chances granted to their opponents weakened their morale and perhaps caused them to lose some concentration. Banco tried to win until the end, Reggio took his part to lose. But in the end the groove was drawn.