Lunch match valid for the eighth day of the championship with Happy Casa Brindisi which is a guest of Dinamo Sassari. The Brindisi team is in a moment of amazing form after the victories against Darussafaka and Virtus Bologna, but will still have to do without Willis. Sassari instead hired the winger Katic to make up for the injured Pusica, out for the rest of the season. Two-ball at 12 o’clock!
QUINTETS
Sassari: Often, Devecchi, Burnell, Tillman, Bilan
Brindisi: Thompson, Harrison, Bell, Udom, Perkins
Sassari starts immediately with the physicality of Bilan who also punishes the long shot and with the explosiveness of Tillman for 8 to 2 after 2 ‘of play. Happy also responds with Bell and Udom, 12 to 7 with Spissu signing up for the game. Parity at 12, Bell with 2 + 1 and Perkins from below then the guests also put their heads forward with Harrison from beyond the arc, 14 to 15 in the middle of the first half. Yes he scores a lot in this start of the race, triple by Perkins, Burnell of physicist and Tillman from the line for a new parity at an altitude of 18. Happy Casa blaze with Perkins and Gaspardo to brand the 21 to 26 that forces Pozzecco to stop the game immediately. The offensive show for the guests continues, Perkins arms his hand with the heavy shot, Bell instead is well primed by Visconti and at the sound of the first siren the result reads 23 to 31.
Gentile from beyond the arc, but Thompson puts 5 consecutive ones and gives +10 to Brindisi, 26 to 36 to 12 ‘. Unsportsmanlike by Kruslin, Harrison in the line and Visconti from the long run widen the gap, 28 to 41. Visconti with the steal and the dunk of +15, then Sassari responds with a mini partial signed by Kruslin and Tillman which is worth 35 to 45. Botta and response on both sides, a gap that remains unchanged with Tillman who, together with Bilan, is the offensive beacon for the islanders, 41 to 51 to 17 ‘. Burnell with the most foul basket brings his own under the double-digit disadvantage while Perkins in the line with 1 on 2 allows Brindisi ahead 46 to 56 at the interval.
It is another race in the second half, but above all another Sassari with the usual Bilan towering in the area and with Spissu and Burnell climbing permanently in the chair, Dinamo returns ahead in the score 63 to 61. Bell immediately answers from beyond the arc , 63 to 64 to 25 ‘. Bilan and Thompson exchange two triples, again a tie at 67. Thompson is still the protagonist, triple and penetration for 67 to 72. Timeout Pozzecco. Spissu from the line of charity, Bendzius gives a ball to Thompson who nails the 69 to 74 in the 30 ‘.
Harrison immediately opens the last fraction with a triple from over 7 meters, but Gentile immediately replies with the same coin, 72 to 77 at 31 ‘. Bilan and Gentile shorten again, 76 to 79. Krubally on an offensive rebound and Spissu from the line with the game remaining very open, 79 to 81 after Gentile’s 2/2 from the line. Brindisi does not give up and indeed stretches, Udom from offensive rebound while Visconti from the long is glacial, 79 to 86 and Pozzecco timeout. Dinamo does not come out well from the minute of suspension, lost by Gentile and error from beyond the arc of Bendzius with Brindisi who scores with Harrison, 79 to 88. New partial for the guests, Harrison from beyond the arc, Udom on offensive rebound and the gap between the two teams opens up again, 81 to 93 with 2 ‘exactly from the end. It is still Harrison who scoffs at Sassari’s defense with two baskets that definitively close the games.
Dinamo Sassari-Happy Casa Brindisi 87-100
