Back on the field on Monday for game 2
SASSARI. Milan takes game 1 of the basketball championship semifinal. Dinamo remains in the game with authority throughout the first quarter then gradually loses the pace, slips back and, betrayed by some of its main players like Logan and Burnell, gives up. Ends 88-71, Monday game 2.
Dinamo enters the field with the right face, responds blow for blow to the baskets and to the muscles of Milan, also going ahead. Robinson organizes and finalizes, 12 points for him at the end of the first quarter ended 32-26 for Milan, then a partial 11-5 for the hosts with the Sassari who pay the comparison between the second lines. Many points scored, too many those suffered.
In the second quarter Milan takes advantage of the advantage acquired, between 10 and 12 points. Dinamo suffer terribly under the basket, the Olbiese Datome is one of the factors of the match yet the biancoblù gritting their teeth, finding two heavy baskets from Treier and managing to free Bilan from the thousand traps in which Olimpia had caged him, does not sink and goes in the locker room still alive, down by 8 points: 50-42.
In the third quarter the owners resume racing, with a 7-0 run by Bilan and Robinson Dinamo moves to -1, putting pressure on Rodriguez and his teammates. Milan closes the ranks, bites in defense and patiently rebuilds the lost nest egg, going up to +9. Datome and Bentil spend the third foul but the bench in Milan is infinite, while the biancoblù do not find the best from theirs. Dinamo no longer scores, they cling to the defense but find no points from Logan, still at zero after 10 ‘of play, while Burnell – so far the best of the Sassari in these playoffs – is just 3. And Milan finds the maximum advantage: 71-57, +14 at the end of the third quarter.
In the last quarter the gap widens, and Bucchi begins to think about tomorrow and Monday, in race 2. Rest for Logan, Burnell and especially Bilan, the best of the dynamo. Milan rises to +20, there are still 5 minutes left but the game is already over. Monday is back on the pitch again at the Forum, there is race 2 (at 21, Raisport and Eurosport) and it is another story, yet to be written.