He avoided falling into the depression of defeats with the success he suffered as much as he deserved on Trento (81-76) but the road is still long and Sassari has no downhill sections on the horizon . Undefeated leaders Virtus Bologna arrives at PalaSerradimigni on Saturday, while Bucchi's biancoblù will be in France on Tuesday to face Dijon in a third round that is already decisive after the defeats against Malaga and Paok.

The play-guard Stefano Gentile explained: “We are looking for an identity and new hierarchies”. Repetitive injuries in the various roles (Treier, Robinson and Jones, then Chessa and Devecchi and Gentile himself) and the replacement of a combo-guard like the injured Dowe with a pure play such as Nikolic has repeatedly led to shuffling set-up and quintets.

Add to this the problem of the insertion of the Onuaku center, which concerns more a psychological aspect than a tactical one . The American center has a high-level physical and technical potential and has dominant flashes, but his attitude on the pitch sometimes appears indolent or in any case not too involved. Yesterday coach Bucchi preferred to start in a quintet with Diop, who despite being inferior in many respects has a competitive spirit also in defense and a desire to be useful to his teammates who serve to cement the group.

If Onuaku manages to take the step it takes to fully integrate into Dinamo, then it will be easy to find an identity that responds to ambitions. Otherwise it will all be much more tiring and uncertain.