Basketball Serie A, Playoff Game 3: Sassari-Milan 69-87. Olimpia is in the final

Messina like Scariolo, closes the series 3-0 at PalaSerradimigni with a choral performance of great substance. Evening of grace for Baldasso

The Armani Exchange reaches Virtus Bologna in the Scudetto final, the Messina team immediately finds the match point with Sassari and ends the series 3-0 at PalaSerradimigni.

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Sassari-Milan 69-87

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First part of the match in favor of Olimpia which changes gear from 10 ‘onwards; if at the beginning of the game Bilan is a factor and Milan is unable to find solutions in attack, suffering the doubling on Shields and also touching the -8, Messina’s rotations allow the change of inertia. The merit passes from the rediscovered defensive phase, which stops Robinson’s construction, often keeps Bilan away from the basket and allows guests to find easy points on the counterattack and hit effectively from long distance, with Baldasso, Hines and Datome on the shields: 34 -47 at 20 ‘. After the long break Sassari tries to react by hitting from long distance, Bendzius takes his team up to -7, but Olimpia proves to be mature in containing Sassari’s impetus. Milan in attack tries to bring Bilan away from the basket, on Sassari’s defensive changes points often arrive in the painted, the system works, it is repeated and sends the Croatian center out of the race pace, while the Messina team hitting even from long distance still with Baldasso, touches +20 before the end of the third quarter. Sassari, dragged by the heat of PalaSerradimigni, tries again to reopen the match, but Olimpia does not decline in lucidity, Rodriguez controls the pace and sets the times for his own, also finding the triple of +22 which leaves little room for Sassari’s hopes to half last quarter. The final minutes serve only to outline the final score, with which Milan closes the series and reaches Virtus Bologna in the championship final: 69-87 in the 40th minute.

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Sassari Robinson 14, Bilan 12, Kruslin, Bendzius 11
Milano Baldasso 17, Rodriguez 12, Datome 11

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