BANCO DI SARDEGNA DYNAMO SASSARI – LA MOLISANA MAGNOLIA CAMPOBASSO 76-62 (28-13, 49-30; 66-48)
SASSARI: Moroni 8 (3/7, 0/2), Orazzo 6 (0/2, 2/3), Lucas 19 (1/4, 4/10), Skoric 9 (4/8), Shepard 32 (12 / 20, 1/2); Arioli (0/1, 0/1), Pertile 2 (0/1 from 3). In: Dell’Olio, Patanè, Mitreva, Kaleva and Scanu. All.: Restivo.
CAMPOBASSO: Trimboli 8 (4/8, 0/1), Chagas 2 (1/5, 0/2), Parks 15 (6/12, 0/2), Nicolodi 13 (4/7, 1/4), Premasunac (0/5, 0/2); Togliani 7 (1/4, 1/2), Quiñonez 17 (5/10, 2/6). In: Del Sole, Amatori e Vitali. All.: Sabatelli.
REFEREES: Rudellat (Nuoro), Frosolini (Grosseto) and Pellegrini (Forlì Cesena).
NOTE: free throws: Sassari 15/19; Campobasso 8/13. Rebounds: Sassari 42 (Shepard 19); Campobasso 40 (Nicolodi 13). Assist: Sassari 23 (Moroni 8); Campobasso 15 (Trimboli 6). Score progression: 16-9 (5 ‘), 35-23 (15’), 59-41 (25 ‘), 66-55 (35’). Maximum advantage: Sassari 21 (55-34); Campobasso never.
A little more than 48 hours after returning to the field in Lucca, after 42 days without competitions, runs into another yellow report – the second in a row – La Molisana Magnolia Campobasso who, still without his totem Reshanda Gray, is defeated by fourteen (76-62) from the PalaSerradimigni of Sassari at the end of a contest in which the rossoblùs end up paying – at a high price – for the first half (and in particular the first quarter) in which the American tandem of the islanders formed by Shepard and Lucas forcefully directs the dispute.
SHORTNESS OF BREATH The start of the #fiorid Acciaio is Himalayan climbing: a series of tears by the islanders (4-0 at the start and then 5-0 at 4-3) together with the two fouls after less than three minutes by Florencia Chagas are questions of no small importance to be solved for coach Sabatelli, forced to deal with not very large rotations. Yet, throwing the heart over the obstacle, the magnolias arrive up to -4 on 13-9. Here, however, a further breakthrough of 7-0 is worth the first double-digit advantage for the islanders (20-9), who come to double their antagonists (26-13) in another sequence in the name of eight consecutive points, which is worth the 28-13 of the 10 ‘.
UPS AND DOWNS Such a passive ends up having its long wave in the second quarter, with the magnolias paying duty from an emotional point of view, because their every attempt to return is immediately blocked by baskets of sardines. The rossoblùs, in fact, always find themselves with a double-digit gap, returning, however, to the final and a gap of three possessions after the free kick achieved by Parks for 37-28. Here a new counterpart of 11-0 opens the doors to the long interval, where the rossoblùs are down by 19 (49-30).
NEW ATTITUDE In the third period, however, the magnolias have much more verve and around the fifteen-year-old Blanca Quiñonez (fourteen points in the fourth) they are able to slowly climb the slope, despite the fact that the clubs reach the maximum advantage in the evening at 55-34, to give life to an ascent path that also leads them up to -11 of 59-48, before undergoing a new 7-0 run with which the Sassari team manages to close the period (66-48).
EFFORTS PAID The signals offered in the third period give further strength to the rossoblùs who, tightening the shirts in defense further, score a 7-0 break that makes the islanders falter a little. Chagas and Nicolodi report the magnolias up to -8 of 67-59 first and of 69-61 then. However, here the rossoblùs end up going to the reserve and Dinamo Sassari manages to take advantage of it to bring home the two points recorded on the scoresheet closed from 76-62.
TECHNICAL OPINION For the coach of the magnolias Mimmo Sabatelli the sensations at the end of the race are those of those who have witnessed a race with more dimensions on his part.
«We did badly in the first two quarters and, in a delicate moment like the present, we cannot afford that type of approach. But we managed to have much more verve after the interval and we also had the balls to go even under the three possessions, but we ended up not being very lucid. Now the imperative is to find the right serenity, cohesion and to be able to recover Reshanda Gray who is an absolute reference for us. We know that it is not an easy phase, but we must try, with work, to find the right solutions. Blanca Quiñonez’s race? She was ready as well as in other circumstances, but in general, during the third and fourth period we defended with greater compactness and it is from these aspects that we must start again in view of Saturday where another battle awaits us ».
POKER ALL’ARENA For the magnolias, from the calendar, on Saturday for the nineteenth round there will be an internal confrontation with Broni with the aim of redeeming the stop suffered in the first leg. And, thanks to the situations also linked to the missed matches due to the postponements due to the pandemic from Covid-19, the second month of the year – also by virtue of the postponement of the trip to Venice for the commitments in the Euroleague of the lagoons – will lead to a sequence of four consecutive matches at the Arena. In addition to the one with the Lombard (first internal release of the calendar year 2022 for the #fiorid Acciaio) there will also be, in order, the recoveries with Virtus Bologna and San Martino di Lupari with, at the end of the month, the race valid for the twenty-first day against Ragusa.
