We return to the field on Wednesday in Sassari for game 3
MILAN. Milan goes 2-0 in the semifinal playoff championship series. Race 3 Wednesday at 8.45 pm in Sassari, live on Raidsport and Eurosport. Race 2, to be won. For Milan, which in Sassari on Wednesday would have the match ball, for Dinamo, who want to find match 4 in Sassari on Wednesday, still at home. Dinamo are 1-0 down and take advantage of the mistakes of game 1, even if the match is very tense at the start. There is no score, then Milan is released and it is 7-0 in an amen. Coach Bucchi calls timeout and in turn Dinamo finally enters the field, and it takes a lot of defense. Shorten, reduce and mend and shorten and equalize, but at half time coach Messina can already afford to change the entire quintet, while Bucchi must have patience. But the biancoblù are there, they have points from Bendzius and Burnell and also go above, but in the final Logan sends Baldasso to the line for three free throws and is 22-18 Milan.
In the second quarter Dinamo at the start still tries to contain Milan but Gentile’s management does not produce effects, Dinamo does not score and Milan does: 30-22, but Bucchi still gives confidence to Logan and Sassari remains in the game at -4, with two important canesri of Ousmane Diop. What about Logan? Bucchi insists with Gentile in the direction, who grows up, responding to the hide and seek of the Milanese coach Messina, who insists but not so much with the second lines, whirls all of him and at 17 ‘Milan is on 35-29. +6, then +8. Robinson returns to Dinamo and Logan is released, his first basket against Milan in the series. 35-32. Logan calls and doubles, second triple and then stolen for Bendzius, 37-37 with Bendzius’ basket. Logan inspires, Dinamo lights up and on an assist from the professor also Kruslin, so far dry, puts it at three. Parzialone 11-2 Dinamo, the shot from three enters as in the Dinamo style and you dream. Logan in the chair, 8 points in a row and +5 Dinamo, Sassari believes in it. 8/15 from 3 Dinamo at this point with Kruslin to sign, Robinson’s +6 in tap-in gives the +8 biancoblù, to the delight of Sassari fans at the Forum, relegated to a segment of the stand but very heated. Logan seals Dinamo’s excellent moment with the basket that sends the teams at the interval with a guest 41-49. Ten points for the Professor. Great, great second quarter from Sassari, the difference is made by the shot from three and the twenty points scored in the last ten minutes by Sassari, who opposes the best defense in Europe to the best attack of Italy. Milan begins to question itself.
Interval, we start again. Milan bites, Dinamo responds. Milan shortens and Dinamo reacts. 47-53 at 23 ‘, the hosts turn the ball which is a beauty and Chacho Rodriguez reads the match like Daredevil without glasses in the sun. But Dinamo doesn’t give up. Milan technician, +5 Sassari, the Chacho is a gremlin but Dinamo holds up. Doubtful foul in attack on Kruslin, Bilan tow, Datome returns to the Red Shoes, Hall signs the Milanese -3 but Dinamo is still there. However, there is also a doubtful foul in attack whistled against Bilan who returns to the bench, Rodriguez is on fire and draws: 59-59. Burnell reports above Dinamo, which does not give up an inch against the Euroleague squadron. Third foul by Diop, Dinamo under one and above two, there is balance and Gentile has finally entered the game. The fake Bendzius is the only one in Italy to do them but they always pay, and they also pay against Milan for the 64-67 from the line and for his twentieth personal point, Super Benji. Then, this time the very marked Bilan is protected by the referees and signs the 69-66 in the 39th minute. Messina also appeals to Melli but the interval is “only” at 68-69 signed by Shields, with a contested foul in attack whistled against Bilan. It would have been +2 or + 3 Dinamo, but Dinamo is there and there is super EimantasBendzius, 23 points without fanfare, as if it were normal, from SuperBendzius.
Last quarter last fires. Baldasso appears in the ranks of Milan, 77-73 due to a reversal that Banco di Sardegna does not accept, +7 Milan but Logan says no from 3, 80-75 to -4, Milan is forced to give everything and Dinamo gives more , -3. 80-77 Logan -1 6-0 of a partial biancoblù and Dinamo are there but without Burnell, recalled on the bench by Bucchi. Even today, as in game 1, against Milan he did not find his dimension. Dinamo were up and now they are down by five 84-79, missing 2 minutes and change, the Giants rely on their totem Bilan, from the line for -4. Then the stars of Milan explode, Shields takes a two plus one from +6, time passes and Rodriguez almost from midfield signs the +9 at -1’35. Bilan in the line, ends but Dinamo has grown, has put new doubts on the battleship Milan and Wednesday is game 3, in Sassari. It can be done.