Other than victory number 250 in Serie A, in Trieste he matures yet another defeat away for Sassari who is beaten 75-69 . The biancoblù team is in crisis, it is useless to go around it and even the coach Piero Bucchi seems unable to find the key to a skein that instead of unraveling itself over time is getting tangled because there is no compactness in the group.
Kruslin is back in the quintet but he does little in attack. Sassari loses two balls on the Robinson-Onuaku play-pivot axis and ends up 6-0. He revives with Onuaku and Jones (+2 at 5 ') but all the others make a mute scene in attack and so Trieste takes off: 23-14 the first set for the hosts.
With changes, things are no better. Few ideas in attack but above all little aggression in the field : Pacher crushes in tap-in for the maximum detachment: 29-15 at 13 '. Kruslin's 5 points shake the blues and whites. Bucchi recomposes the quintet and Bendzius and Onuaku conquer many free throws reducing the gap to -6. Time ends with Nikolic's assist for Onuaku's dunk, 38-34 . Not bad considering the very bad three-point percentages: 1/10.
The aim does not improve in the third quarter (2/19 and it is not clear why Chessa does not enter) and among other things, after the 5 points of a Robinson finally turned on in attack (40-39 at 23 ') there is the third foul of the American play that Bucchi prefers to call on the bench. Nikolic argues with the basket, Onuaku commits the fourth foul and the team sinks: 57-44 in the 29th minute .
In the last quarter Gentile and Jones flashes of pride for -5 but after the time out Trieste returns concentrated and returns in double figures : 62-52 at 34 '. The return of Robinson and the three free throws of Bendzius reopen the game: 64-60, A triple by Bartley gives breath to the hosts who close the game with the exuberance of Spencer under the basket dominating Diop.
The scores
Trieste Basketball: Gaines 10 Pacher 11Bossi, Davis 9 Spencer 18 Deangeli, Lever ne, Campogrande 4 Vildera 2 Ius ne, Bartley 20, Rolli ne. Herds Legovich.
