If this year's Armani Milano has already lost 4 matches in nine days of Serie A, it is also true that it is against Sassari that they tend to give their best. After the humiliating 0-3 defeat in the Scudetto semi-finals, Olimpia won 13 of the 14 matches played in the following four seasons.
With the arrival on the bench of Ettore Messina, Milan dominated against the club that after Virtus Bologna took away the most Italian titles in the last 10 years. And he did it by winning not only in the championship, but also twice in the Scudetto playoffs and once in the quarter-finals of the 2022 Italian Cup. And he did so by almost always inflicting double-digit deficits and four times gaps of more than 20 points, with the record of 93-61 at PalaSerradimigni in the third match of the 2023 championship semi-finals.
The only success in the last four seasons was the one at PalaSerradimigni in the 2021/22 championship 92-90 with a field goal scored on entry by Robinson. In that game 25 points from Logan, 21 from Bilan and 17 from Bendzius. Curiosity: Pozzecco was also there, but as Messina's deputy.
