Third to last round of the championship for Serie A Basketball League which sees the Dinamo Sassari and the Openjobmetis Varese. Today, Sunday 21 April, at noon at PalaSerradimigni there will be a tit-for-tat between the hosts who are still fighting for a place in the league Playoffs and guests to take great steps towards mathematical salvation. Due to the three defeats in the last four matches played, the Sardinians have significantly complicated their rise in the standings: before this round they have two victories away from Bertram Tortona, winner of the match against Pesaro.
Mannion and his teammates are going through a difficult period with four defeats in the last five, the only victory being against the GeVi Naples with the score 113 to 79. The victory is just one more advantage over Pesaro second to last but lost last night, so it could be a great opportunity for a clear separation.
Sassari – Varese, analysis of the match
A Dinamo Sassari completely unloaded, it comes out defeated from its field against theOpenjobmetis Varese with the score 88 to 112. A game never in question with the guests who took off from the first quarter scoring 35 points and at half-way through the game they were already at 64. The coaching team Markovic he has a defeatist approach to the match as if he had been content with a quiet survival and not aiming for the post season. However, there are different reasons Mannion and teammates who play with the right intensity right from the tap-off to win the two very precious points in the standings.
Varese he shoots 82.1% from two points which drops to 47.1% from three points with 16 baskets (4 each for Nico MannionHugo Besson and Gabe Brown). Sassari instead from inside the two-point area he shoots 53.2% with 25 out of 47 while from behind the arc the percentage is 34.8% with Filip alone Kruslin who gets a positive one, with 3 baskets out of 4 shots taken. The guests play much more as a team, obtaining 26 assists, with Nico Mannion who scores 11, while the hosts score 22, with Kruslin who gets 7. The Sardinians are better in free throws with 14 baskets out of 15 (93.3%) available against 90% of the hosts with only 2 errors out of the 20 shot.
The top scorer of the challenge is the center of the Dinamo Sassari Stephane Gombauld who scores 31 while shooting 75% from the field, 12 out of 16, and perfect from the free throw line, 7 out of 7. In addition to him, the hosts bring three others in double figures, with Filip Kruslin at 13 with 7 assists, Vasilis Charampopoulos at 12 and Ousmane Diop at 11. Coach Bialaszewski’s men have 24 points from Nico Mannion with 11 assists, Hugo Besson with 20 and 5 assists, Gabe Brown with 16 points. Following there are also 14 for Sean Mcdermottthe Skylar center Spencer at 12, then there’s Davide Moretti at 11, which exceeds 1000 points in LBA, and to close Leonardo’s 10 Okeke.
The match scoreboard
Partial individual quarters: 25-35, 16-29, 28-27, 19-21
Partial progressives: 25-35, 41-64, 69-91, 88-112
Dinamo Sassari: Cappelletti 9, Tyree 9, Gombauld 31Mckinnie 3, Jefferson, Kruslin 13, Pisano, Treier ne, Raspino ne, Gandini ne, Diop 11, Charalampopoulos 12. Coach: Nenad Markovic
Openjobmetis Varese: Mannion 24 + 11 absMoretti 11, Mcdermott 14, Okeke 10, Brown 16, Ulaneo ne, Spencer 12, Woldentensae ne, N’Guessan, Besson 20, Gilmore 5. Coach: Tom Bialaszewski
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