Banco di Sardegna remains in crisis. In Casale Monferrato the newly promoted Tortona 95-89 wins. The fourth defeat in a row makes it urgent to find a new foreign playmaker on the market, but inevitably calls into question the bench of Demis Cavina, because Sassari always seems incomplete and unable to grow: in an extraordinary day in the three-point shooting (18 / 32) struggled to build two shots and defended badly in the third quarter, collecting 40 points compared to 28 scored.
Tortona without the injured American playmaker Wright compensates for the absence of a foreigner in the Banco, who still does not have the replacement for Clemmons, who went to Turkey in Ankara.
Quintet of Champions with Gentile to make the play and also to score the first two triples. Diop enters for Mekowulu and has maximum advantage: +5, 9-14 at 8 '.
It is a festival of horrors in the two-point shooting, because the teams run but make a lot of mistakes. Dinamo, however, has been hot for three and with Devecchi and Logan it touches up the maximum gap: 20-27 in the 14th minute.
Tortona defends better, creates problems for the Sassari attack and recovers by overtaking Macura with a counterattack: 29-28 in the 16 '. The Banco arrives at -5 then Burnell is released with a bomb and Mekowulu crushes on the counterattack on Logan's alley-oop: 35 equal to 19 '.
Upon returning, Sassari continues to shoot very well from three but has little else in attack and above all zero or almost zero in defense. Macura is exalted instead, who scores from three, recovers and scores again with additional free. Cain completes the 11-0 break. Sassari flounders, ends at -13 in the 29th minute and only Logan's triples prevent the match from already over.
In the last quarter the Banco does not find himself and also slips to -17 (88-71 at 35 '). The Sassari defense stretches and presses, Gentile and Burnell fight almost alone (88-78), the sniper Logan is added: 93-86 a minute and a half from the end, -4 to 6 seconds with Burnell's triple, but now it's over.
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