Too many absentees to hope for anything else, four of them on the outside. At the PalaSerradimigni, Zaragoza easily won (75-94) after a tight quarter. The team, coached by former player Marco Spissu, who earned a warm welcome at the end of the game, thus moved from the bottom of the European Cup standings, while Dinamo remains without points and is one and a half feet out of the European Cup.
Dinamo was without four foreign players: Marshall and Beliauskas were injured, while Buie and Johnson were on the bench but rested as a precaution . Zanelli and Ceron joined the starting five, with Ceron scoring a fast break to make it 11-4 in the 6th minute, but Saragossa emerged with Yusta and a 10-2 run to reverse the momentum. The all-Italian starting five temporarily put Sassari ahead (22-21 with a three-pointer by Visconti), but with the return of Spissu at set-up (a former star performer) and 14 offensive rebounds, the Spanish team pulled away again and even reached a 9-point lead before halftime, leading 34-42.
In the third quarter, Pullen shakes up his team with a pair of three-pointers, but two or three mistakes are enough to let the Spanish lead: 44-57 at the 24th minute. Banco extends its reach but scores next to nothing. Point guard Spissu distributes the play and when he decides to dust off his shot, he scores a 19-point lead for the Spanish team. It's just no contest.
For Dinamo, Pullen scored 14 points, McGlynn 12, and Thomas and Visconti 10 each.
