At 6 pm at PalaSerradimigni the debut in the league against Pesaro. Clemmons absent in the US for the birth of children
SASSARI. End of running-in, end of pre-season, as far as real competitions are concerned and not friendly ones: from today every victory is worth 2 points and it will be essential to try to keep in touch with the big teams. Dinamo Banco di Sardegna dives for the twelfth consecutive year in the Serie A championship by hosting the Carpegna Prosciutto Pesaro of coach Aza Petrovic, brother of the legendary Drazen.
At 6 pm the public will return to PalaSerradimigni (for the moment only subscribers) and the spectacle of the top flight of basketball will also return, with a marathon of 30 regular season games, at the end of which the first eight classified will play the playoffs, while the the last two will be relegated to A2.
The new Dinamo, led by Demis Cavina, starts with high morale despite the not positive Bolognese campaign in the final phase of the Super Cup and an incomplete roster: the absence of the long Senegalese Ousmane Diop, whose definitive recovery still seems far away, yes adds that of Anthony Clemmons for this game. The play biancoblù in recent days flew to the United States to attend the birth of his partner, who will give birth to twins. A heavy absence, but from this point of view the biancoblù club behaved in line with what has been done in recent years in the many similar situations that have occurred.
The absence of Clemmons will allow Cavina to shuffle the cards in the rotations of the external players: it is therefore possible that the Sassari’s play-off Massimo Chessa starts in a quintet next to Stefano Gentile, with the Logan-Battle couple ready to leave the bench. Also to be evaluated is the health of the long Jacopo Borra, who has already missed most of the races so far. Also in this case, Cavina would be forced to shuffle the cards by sliding the various Burnell and Treier into the spots of four and five.
On the Pesaro front, the slap in Bologna in the quarter-final against Venice (51-83 for Reyer) still burns, but the Marche region wants to show that they have learned their lesson. The most important confirmations compared to last season are those of Drell, Delfino, Zanotti and Tambone, while Davide Moretti has arrived on loan, looking for a qualitative leap after the not positive experience in Milan. To keep an eye on the young center Tyrique Jones and the guard Vincent Sanford, who has experience in France and Germany behind him.