Basketball, quarter-final play-offs for the Scudetto: Milan and Sassari close the series on 3-1 and fly to the semifinals

Milan And Sassari reach the Virtus Bologna in Serie A basketball play-off semi-finals and now they will compete for a place in the final. After being surprised in game-3, Olimpia returns to dominate this time (80-94) Pesaro and closes the series on 3-1. Match without history that Messina’s team commanded from the start, increasing the gap as the minutes went by until reaching the maximum advantage of +24 in the fourth period. On the shields Shields, author of 25 points and 7 rebounds, but also Melli (14 points and 8 rebounds), Napier (13 points), Voigtmann (12) and Baron (11) did well. In Pesaro it wasn’t enough to finish with 4 men in double figures (Delfino 14, Daye 13, Charalampopoulos and Cheatham 11).

Granger misses the pass with 3″ to go, Venice bows to Sassari

Sassari also closes the accounts on 3-1 by exploiting the field factor in game 4 against Venice (87-83). However, Bucchi’s team trembled in the final after having almost always been in control of the match. Reyer recriminates for having let her opponents escape in the second quarter: from that moment she was always forced to chase, failing even the triple of overtaking with Granger (best scorer of the match with 30 points) 3″ from the end after having gotten back on top from -12 in the last 2’30”. Sassari especially thanks Kruslin (22 points), Diop (19 with 10 rebounds) and Dowe (15 with 7 rebounds). In Venice, in addition to Granger, Spissu’s 14 points were not needed and Parks’ 10.