Very tight, ugly for three quarters but exciting in the end. And in the end Sassari gets 75-73 on a Pesaro with a play at the start (the Brazilian Pacheco) but irreducible. To underline the double double of Mekowulu: 21 points and 11 rebounds. A victory that helps a group that has to work a lot between absences and identity research, but is growing in defense.
Without the play Clemmons, who returned to the US for the birth of the twins Chloe and Coby, it is Gentile who plays the play in a quintet where there is also Devecchi for Burnell, who joins later. The best are the great old men: Logan on one side (+3 to 6 ') and Delfino on the other (13-18 to 9').
With Treier finally playing from "4" Sassari goes on in the second quarter: 27-22 at 13 '. But Pesaro defends and puts the Sassarese attack in difficulty and then with Sanford extends the break by 9-0 which overturns the inertia: 27-31 in the 15 '. The biancoblù team returns the same partial but fails to defend the new +5 because it goes too far, both in defense and in attack. Pesaro goes to the rest ahead of a basket: 36-38. On par or almost the duel between Mekowulu (9 points and 6 rebounds) and Jones (11 points and 5 rebounds) but in the calculation of rebounds Pesaro has a +5 on offensive recoveries which explains the small advantage despite the bad 2/11 from three .
In the third quarter Delfino brings back the guests, but the gap never goes beyond the two baskets. Sassari returns with Bendzius. A few too many errors by Logan, little direction by Battle. The game remains ugly: 52-56 with a triple from Moretti. The public tries to charge the Dinamo.
A triple from Zanotti brings Sassari down to -7, but Mekowulu and Battle have the energy for the 10-0 break that with Logan's counterattack brings Dinamo to 62-59 in the 34th minute.
BASKETBALL A: SASSARI-PESARO 75-73 (18-20; 36-38; 52-56)
SASSARI: Logan 14, Sanna ne, Gandini, Devecchi, Treier 5, Chessa, Burnell 6, Bendzius 10, Mekowulu 21, Gentile 10, Battle 9, Borra. Herds Cavina
PESARO: Drell, Moretti 5, Pacheco 2, Tambone 12, Camara, Zanotti 3, Sanford 22, Demetrio 4, Delfino 9, Jones 16. All. Petrovic
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