About 500 spectators applaud the victory against Cremona
SASSARI. Tougher than the friendly match against Bayern Munich, more complicated than the test against Baskonia. Never trust the official debuts, never take anything for granted, not even against a team without three foreigners from the quintet and stuffed with minors. Dinamo sweats much more than expected to beat Vanoli Cremona in the first Super Cup match. At the sports hall ends 83-74 and all in all that’s okay. Also because the guests returned to the game several times from -10 and up to 100 seconds from the end they were on the heels of the Sassari, weighed down by a huge number of turnovers, as many as 20.
Finally the applause. The Palaserradimgni is open for 35% of the capacity, the public makes themselves heard, but the numbers for the reopening are not what we expected: 500, maybe 600 the biancoblù fans who responded present for this first feast of Dinamo live after almost a year of live TV and streaming on PCs and smartphones. This is also a new beginning, and it’s better than nothing.
The initial impasse. The departure of the biancoblù is extremely contracted and in the first 5 minutes of the game the Sassari produce two meager points (2-7). Then somehow the engine starts up, with the defensive pressure that allows some offensive transition in the open field and parity at an altitude of 9. Cavina responds by contrast to the low five of Galbiati starting to fish with both hands from the bench: they enter via via Logan , Battle and Borra. Dinamo becomes very high but runs a lot, with the flames of Logan and Bendzius that allow you to reach the end of the period on +8, 23-15.
A quarter of suffering. Vanoli relies on Poeta’s imagination and experience and proves anything but compliant: Banco has time to find Mekowulu’s third dunk but with the attack jammed again Cavina has to call timeout. It starts again from 27-21 (6 ‘from rest) and from a Banco still a bit rusty, which manages to return to +10 (31-21) but never gives the feeling of being able to run away: in fact after the timeout by Galbiati Cremona raises the intensity, he goes back down with Tinkle and Agbamu at 1’50 ”from the middle of the race the advantage is very small (33-30). Dinamo collects one turnover after another, with Clemmons completely out of the game and Mekowulu making one mistake after another after a great start. Cremona touches the -1 with Poeta (33-32), then Logan puts a piece of it by pulling the triple of 36-32 out of the hat.
Strattoni&strattoni. After the break, the Banco restarts from two turnovers in an incredible way, Clemmons finds a triple but his game never starts. Vanoli, on the other hand, is there, with Cournooh making 41-40 from the line. The game becomes a swamp for the Banco, which fails repeatedly open shots and manages to change pace only with the entry of Battle and Logan: the winger defends and makes a basket, the Professor places the triple of 52 from the corner -42 to 3’36 “. Match in the freezer? Not even for an idea: in a minute Tinkler slips a 3-point game and a bomb (52-48), then Cremona, with 2005 Errica on the field, even overtaking (52-53), before Bendzius’ triple on the siren , for 55-53.
Dinamo moves the score with 4 free throws from Mekowulu, Cremona loses Agbamu for fouls but the difference is always the class of Logan, who with his classic stepback signs the 63-55 at 7’40 “from the end of the race. Dinamo remains with the bow forward but the match is not closed even after Tinkle’s unsportsmanlike on Burnell and the blaze of Battle, because from 76-62 Cremona dates back with the baby Gallo and with Poeta. With 100 seconds left, Banco has only 8 points ahead (77-69), but Cremona really doesn’t have any more. He closes it with a triple captain Devecchi, on the field after 7 months. It’s just the first, and that’s fine.
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