Four in the last five, but still not enough to make the playoffs. On Sunday Dinamo hosts Pesaro in the midday match at PalaSerradimigni. The team coached by the former Meo Sacchetti has equally strong motivations: they are last and must obtain a victory immediately after the two defeats which canceled out the exploits against Brescia and Virtus Bologna.
The match will see Ousmane Diop make his debut as captain, awaiting the return of Eimantas Bendzius to the parquet. «For me, who has been there since 2018, it is a great honor for which I thank the club. We want the playoffs to maintain the tradition of the club which has always made the championship play-offs except once since it arrived in Serie A."
Compared to the team from the first leg, beaten by Banco 79-69, Pesaro has changed a lot: first of all the coach (Sacchetti replaced Buscaglia) and then the players: the winger McDuffie and the point guard Wright-Foreman, while the former blue and white Scott Bamforth and the new American center Love, hired to deal with Totè's injury, has not yet been signed up.
An advantage for Dinamo's centres, but Diop warns: «It will be a new match, because with the fact that they don't have a pivot but have wingers who can come out to shoot from outside and are faster».
