Sassari stops worrying about salvation and starts looking at the left side of the standings. The victory over Trento 88-80 is important both for the value of the opponent and for the physical and mental intensity of a match that seemed like a playoff. Dinamo proved to have character in a match lived between breaks and against breaks. Trento with a partial of 20-4 managed in the third fraction to recover from -16 and go ahead in the 33rd minute, but the biancoblù dragged by Robinson (11 points in the last quarter) sprinted definitively.
The team was led by Giacomo Baioni (head coach Piero Bucchi had a fever and tested positive at Covid) while Trento was without the American winger Saunders.
Diop starts in the quintet, because Mekowulu is also recovering from a flu attack. To break the balance is Bendzius with his intelligence and his shots: 11 points in the 17-12 of the 7 '. Trento responds with the power of Caroline and then goes to the counter with Mezzanotte: 19-21.
Mekowulu enters and puts a triple, the biancoblù defense closes the area well and Kruslin scores +7 at the entrance. The guests find good percentages from beyond the arc and with a break from 11-0 and are reported above: 31-32 at 16 'on a stolen ball by Flaccadori.
Coach Baioni reconstitutes the quintet and the counterbreak is 13-0 with Diop who makes a mistake from below and scores 44-35.
In the second half Burnell returns to his levels, Bendzius and Robinson are lethal and is +16 at 24 '. But the Dolomites are on a day of archery and go upstream: 61-58 in the 28th minute with two triples from Forray and the entry of Caroline. He draws with Reynolds and in the last quarter he puts his nose forward (69-71). The return of Diop and above all that of Robinson give solidity to the quintet. The point guard splits the game in two with his entries on the left: 82-73 in the 38th minute. It is done.
The scores
Sassari : Logan 13, Robinson 22, Kruslin 8, Gandini ne, Devecchi, Treier 2, Chessa ne, Burnell 7, Bendzius 18, Mekowulu 7, Gentile 3, Diop 8. All. Baioni.
