On Friday the recovery with a Virtus today engaged in the Eurocup semifinal. Sunday ends in Varese against a dangerous but already safe team
SASSARI. The new season has already begun with the mathematical qualification for the playoffs thanks to the success with Cremona: the last two races that await Dinamo over the weekend resemble the Formula 1 sprint race, where the drivers compete with each other to establish the best starting position. in what will then be the decisive competition. Bucchi’s guys are sixth and could either improve (4th place) or go down to 7th at worst. It would happen if Sassari lost both matches (Friday at 20.30 at home with Virtus Bologna and Sunday in Varese) and if Reggio Emilia, beating the relegated Fortitudo, reached them and snatched their 6th place for goal difference (+1). In the quarters he would face Milan, second.
Dream fourth place. But the biancoblù prefer to look ahead and hope to improve the sixth place, which would be safe by winning at least one of the two matches: in the quarters they would find Germani Brescia. To do this, you need a feat: win two games with 34 points and see what Venice (now fourth at 34, hosts Milan) and Tortona (fifth at 32, plays at Brindisi, out of the playoff fight) have done. If it reaches only Tortona Sassari remains sixth (0-2 in direct clashes); if instead it reaches Venice, Bucchi’s team (+3 in the baskets difference) would be fourth and would find in the quarterfinals, with the home factor in favor, the lagoons who would slide to fifth place. If, on the other hand, there were a three to 34 finish with Venice and Tortona, the detached classification would reward the Piedmontese (three wins, fourths), leaving the Venetians in fifth place (two victories) and Dinamo in sixth (one victory). It is not obvious how we will arrive in the standings – says Piero Bucchi – Varese is safe, but even if he no longer has a chance to go to the playoffs he will want to greet his audience with a victory, it will be a war machine, it will not be a simple race but we will go to Lombardy with desire and determination. But first there is the race with Virtus which will not be easy. As always, things must be earned, the position is not taken for granted ». And today the Treviso-Milan recovery is also taking place, with the Venetians looking for playoff points.
Help from Europe. A hope, in addition to the possible satisfaction of the Varese people, is offered by the calendar of the black Vs, which last Sunday had the certainty of ending the regular season in first place (a fact that could take away a pinch of the sacred fire that pervades them in this period. , the 113 points trimmed in Treviso are the season record of the championship): today they are engaged in one of the toughest clashes of the season, the Eurocup semifinal scheduled on the pitch of the very strong Valencia. According to many, it will be the real final of a competition that Scariolo’s men want to win to access the next Euroleague. In short, the attention of the Emilians is more concentrated on Europe, but with the technical potential at their disposal it is better not to be under any illusions. Sassari showed that he had the right mental strength, winning two particular matches, one against a Napoli angry by the fear of relegation, the other with a Cremona now in A2 and who therefore played free from conditioning and therefore difficult to decrypt. And with an excellent contribution from the bench. The condition is not at the top, but there is everything to get it back in time.