First Ludwigsburg 89-79, then Trento 80-73. Maybe two victories are not yet proof of a Dinamo with a precise identity, but they are two clues that suggest that the worst is behind us and from now on the team can have more solidity and lead a less anonymous season.
Now the team coached by Piero Bucchi is equidistant from the relegation zone, where Brindisi and Treviso are stuck with zero points, and from the playoffs, where the eighth is an Ea7 Milano in crisis.
Two matches won't be decisive, but in the meantime the blue and whites kept both the Germans and Trento under 80 points, starting to put some patches in a defense that until a week ago was a sieve that allowed almost 90 points on average.
“Coach made some adjustments,” Breein Tyree said. He certainly made them defensively, even if he initially left himself too much space at the arc. The quintets where there are at least three Italians are the ones that defensively seem the most compact, but the Americans are also making more efforts to understand positioning and mechanisms.
The injured Diop isn't there but Gombauld has kept his high offensive production constant in recent games and is having fun intimidating with his blocks. The rest was done by the small quintet with Treier as a "5" who can change over everyone and also McKinnie's sacrifice in rebounding and defense inside the area.
