Great feat of the Sassari who come out great from the two weeks of quarantine Without Spissu and Katic (positive) and Treier (injured), the biancoblù bring out their pride
SASSARI. Just one group workout to get together, forty minutes to build a victory that is worth double. Stronger than Coronavirus, absences and an athletic condition weakened by two weeks of quarantine, Dinamo beat Vanoli Cremona in the advance of the ninth day of return. At PalaSerradimigni the Sassari of Gianmarco Pozzecco literally scrape the barrel and obtain a precious success both for the ranking and from the mental point of view.
The absent. The “formations” are made by Covid-19, which takes the two play Spissu and Katic out of the way (they are the infected players, together with the baby King), and Cournooh on the other. Sassari also has Treier out, Vanoli misses the Finnish Palmi.
The presents. At Banco there are, however, Stefano Gentile, the revived Massimo Chessa and the ubiquitous Jason Burnell, who take turns in carrying the ball and building the game. And there is the group, which once again is the strong point of the Sassari: the biancoblù send six players out of the seven available in double figures and with the sharing of responsibilities they manage to reach the goal, confirming – despite everything – the best attack. of the championship.
A complicated start. Chessa starts in the quintet as Gentile’s shoulder, the biancoblù are inevitably “tied”, they are unable to produce a fluid game and send five triples on the iron in a row. Vanoli attacks the iron well (5-10 after 4’30 “), then Gentile unlocks the Sassari attack, but the main problems are on the other side of the field: Mian always makes a basket and Poeta’s entry gives further vivacity to the Lombards (17-23). In the meantime, Kruslin entered, Poz also sent Happ into rotation and the gap narrowed, even if the Banco suffered too much at the first siren, 26-29.
Fireworks. Pozzecco focuses on the Bendzius-Happ couple, orders the area and the dividends are collected immediately: Cremona gets bogged down, Dinamo runs and in less than 2 minutes there is a 9-0 break, from 26-31 to 35-31. Galbiati’s timeout does not change the inertia, Bilan detects Bendzius and with the two towers Dinamo accelerates again: Happ is unleashed, Bilan enters the game and the break extends up to 15-0: at 6’35 “on 41- 31 Galbiati is forced to spend the second timeout. Chessa also unlocks, slipping the triple of 46-34 in the middle of the period, while Kruslin places the bomb of +15, 51-36 from the corner. Cremona finds breath with the triples of Mian and J.Williams, but Dinamo proceeds at full throttle and reaches halfway through the race at 56-42.
Suffering and control. Upon returning to the field Cremona tries to mix up the games by raising the defensive intensity and also finding some lucky calls from the referees. The guests get into the rhythm and from 59-42 forcefully return to the game, going back to -7 with Mian who signs the basket in 64-57 at 5’47 “. From the timeout comes a Banco deployed in the area that regains altitude, even if Cremona does not give up (69-62). Pozzecco sends Burnell to carry the ball and inserts Happ: the set-up with three longs rewards Dinamo, who takes off again with 6 consecutive points from Bilan (75-62), closing the set at 77-65. The match is far from over: Cremona continues to make the basket and gains even more confidence. The Sassarese attack gets stuck, between shots on the iron and trivial turnovers, Barford and his teammates gnaw points and even without doing anything extraordinary they go back from 82-70 to 82-77.
Krule takes care of it. At 5’01 ”from the end there is the timeout, then comes a bit of defensive pressure and above all two three-pound trebles from Kruslin each. Barford does not give up but to close the accounts is still the Croatian winger, who still hits the center from afar for the final 95-84. A success that is truly worth double.
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