The biancoblù, without Burnell and Pozzecco, fall against Cantù and lose the home factor From Thursday to the Taliercio away to the playoffs with the “replay” of the championship final two years ago
No fifth consecutive victory, no fourth place, no home factor in the quarter-finals of the playoffs. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna gets cannonballed by the already relegated Acqua San Bernardo Cantù and misses a golden opportunity to close the regular season in a great way. The 106-101 collected last night at PalaDesio will not likely change the fate of the season but still leaves a bit of a bitter taste in the mouth. But now it’s time to reset everything.
Back to Venice. The fifth place is worth the pairing with Reyer Venezia in the upcoming first round of the playoffs. The Italian champions, overtaken by the Sassari last week, made the counter-overtake at the last corner and secured the advantage of the beautiful at home.
Game 1 is scheduled for Thursday at the Taliercio in the challenge that re-proposes the last championship final. The following evening it will already be time for Race 2, with the “back to back” foreseen by this year’s “throttled” calendar, then the series will move to PalaSerradimigni for Race 3 (Sunday). The eventual Race 4 is scheduled for Tuesday, still in Piazzale Segni, and if the two teams reach two victories each, the decisive fifth game would be played at Taliercio on Thursday 20. Match times are still to be defined.
The Pozzecco case. Also yesterday, for the second consecutive race, Bilan and his teammates were led from the bench by Edoardo Casalone and Gerry Gerosa. The ten-day suspension imposed by the company against Gianmarco Pozzecco should end on Wednesday, and therefore the Trieste coach could have time to fly away with his boys. In any case, Dinamo arrives in the playoffs in the midst of a paradoxical situation, even if it is not certain that some news can arrive today.
The scoreboard. The last day gave two quite big surprises: the second, in addition to the Sassari knockout at PalaDesio, is the internal defeat of Virtus Bologna against Trento, which however does not actually change the final classification. Even in the event of a win, the Vu Nere – who lost Amedeo Tessitori for a month and in the quarterfinals will face off against De’Longhi Treviso – would have finished in third place, overtaken by Brindisi: the Salento team won over Varese yesterday , securing the place of honor and a first round in any case not taken for granted with Allianz Trieste. Milan, which was already certain of the primacy, will find Trento in the first round. Both Brindisi and Virtus are on the opposite side of the board from Ettore Messina’s Scarpette Rosse.
Surprises, in general, may not be lacking in any field, but on paper the most balanced pairing is precisely that between Banco di Sardegna and Umana Reyer.
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