It should have been the day that sanctioned the filing of the salvation speech and instead it is the day that brought back some fears . In fact, the simultaneous defeat of Dinamo in Naples for 93-83 was matched by the unexpected victories of Brindisi over Virtus Bologna and Reggio Emilia over Milan.
It's a more balanced championship because many teams are leveling themselves towards the middle of the table and the two leaders Milan and Bologna appear much more vulnerable than last season. Suffice it to say that Milan already has 4 defeats when last year it had just 2 and Virtus itself has one more defeat than last season.
In the past championship Cremona was the last with 8 points and Fortitudo Bologna and Varese were paired in the penultimate place with 10 points. Today the rear light is Reggio Emilia with 10 points while at 12 there are four teams: Scafati, Verona, Naples and Treviso.
The Sassari team is at 14 together with Brindisi who beat and Brescia and Trieste against whom they lost. Practically in the space of a single victory they go from eighth place and the championship playoffs to the penultimate place which condemns them to relegation to A2.
The absence of point guard Robinson cannot explain the mental blackout (and also tactical given the unbalanced quintets) of the second and third quarters where Bucchi's team took a 54-33 run with the aggravating circumstance that there was the interval where in theory you could gather your ideas and rediscover the defensive aggressiveness that was missing.