Dinamo Sassari

Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari
Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari
2021–22 Dinamo Sassari season
Nickname	Banco (Bank); Biancoblu (White-Blues); Giganti (Giants)
Leagues	LBA
Founded	23 April 1960; 61 years ago
History	Dinamo Sassari; (1960–present)
Arena	Palasport Roberta Serradimigni
Capacity	5,000
Location	Sassari, Italy
Team colors	White, Blue;
Main sponsor	Banco di Sardegna
President	Stefano Sardara
Team manager	Federico Pasquini
Head coach	Piero Bucchi
Team captain	Giacomo Devecchi
Ownership	Polisportiva Dinamo s.r.l.
Championships	1 FIBA Europe Cup; 1 Serie A ; 2 Italian Cup ; 2 Italian SuperCup
Retired numbers	2 (12, 12)
Website	dinamobasket.com

Polisportiva Dinamo, commonly known as Dinamo Sassari and currently known as Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Sassari, Sardinia. They are the current European Cup Champions.^[1] The club plays in the Italian LBA, the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball.

Dinamo was founded in 1960, and in the past, due to sponsorship deals, has also been known as Banco Popolare Sassari (1989–90). The club plays in the Serie A (the highest level for the men's basketball competitions in Italy), since 2010.

Dinamo Sassari is notable for being the club in Italian professional basketball to have made the impressive score of 158 points scored in a single game (with no overtimes), during the 1994–95 Serie A2 regular season, versus Pallacanestro Pavia (91);^[2] which is the highest score ever made by any club in Italy.

The Palasport Roberta Serradimigni, home arena of Dinamo

History[]

In 1994–95 the Dinamo team scored 158 points in a regular season game without overtimes against Pavia.

In 2010 Dinamo promoted to the Serie A, when it beat Prima Veroli in the Finals of the Playoffs.

In 2012 the club made its debut in Europe, when it played in the EuroCup regular season. The 2013–14 season was one of the most historic ever for the club. Banco di Sardegna Sassari won the Italian Cup, the team's first trophy. Dinamo's star player Travis Diener was named Italian Cup MVP. Later in the season Drake Diener – Travis' cousin – was named Italian League MVP. Dinamo also played in the EuroCup once again, and reached the eight-finals this time around.

Despite the third place and elimination in the Italian League semifinals in 2014, Dinamo was invited to play in the 2014–15 EuroLeague season. After Montepaschi Siena, runner-up in the Italian league, resigned the club received a B license.

In the 2014–15 season, Dinamo won its first Italian League championship. In Game 7 of the Italian League Finals, Sassari won 73–75, on the road against Reggio Emilia.^[3] Because of this, Dinamo returned to the EuroLeague in 2015. It was eliminated in the regular season and after transferring to the EuroCup it was eliminated in the round of 32.

The tip off of the first leg of the 2019 FIBA Europe Cup Finals

In 2017, Dinamo reached the final of the Italian Cup, where it lost to Olimpia Milano. This season the club also made its debut in the Basketball Champions League and made the quarter-finals in its inaugural season. In the LBA, the team finished in the fifth place.

In the 2018–19 season, Dinamo played in the second qualifying round of FIBA Europe Cup. Here, it beat Benfica from Portugal to advance to the regular season. After advancing past the second round as well, Dinamo beat ZZ Leiden, Pınar Karşıyaka and Hapoel Holon. Thus, it qualified for the 2019 FIBA Europe Cup Finals where Dinamo faced German side s.Oliver Würzburg. On 1 May 2019, Sassari won the FIBA Europe Cup after defeating Würzburg in the second leg of the finals.^[4] It was the team's first European title.

In 2019 Sassari reached the LBA Finals for the second time in club history, four years since its championship. Dinamo was defeated by Umana Reyer Venezia in Game 7, losing the series 3–4.^[5]

Honours[]

Total titles: 6

Domestic competitions[]

Italian League

Winners (1): 2014–15

Runners-up (1): 2018–19

Italian Cup

Winners (2): 2014, 2015

Runners-up (1): 2017

Italian Supercup

Winners (2): 2014, 2019

European competitions[]

FIBA Europe Cup

Winners (1): 2018–19

Other competitions[]

Varallo Sesia, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2011

Torneo Città di Cagliari

Runners-up (1): 2011

Torneo Geovillage

Winners (2): 2014, 2015

Nuoro, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (2): 2014, 2015

Runners-up (1): 2018

Sassari, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2014

Wroclaw, Poland Invitational Game

Runners-up (1): 2014

Torneo de Città di Sassari

Runners-up (1): 2015

Trofeo Meridiana

Winners (1): 2015

Olbia, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2016

Cagliari, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2018

Saturnia, Italy Invitational Game

Winners (1): 2019

Season by season[]

Season	Tier	League	Pos.	Italian Cup	European competitions
2001–02	3	Serie B	2nd
2002–03	3	Serie B	3rd
2003–04	2	Legadue	10th
2004–05	2	Legadue	13th
2005–06	2	Legadue	11th
2006–07	2	Legadue	13th
2007–08	2	Legadue	6th
2008–09	2	Legadue	3rd
2009–10	2	Legadue	1st
2010–11	1	Serie A	6th
2011–12	1	Serie A	3rd	Quarterfinalist
2012–13	1	Serie A	5th	Semifinalist	2 Eurocup	RS
2013–14	1	Serie A	3rd	Winner	2 Eurocup	EF
2014–15	1	Serie A	1st	Winner	1 Euroleague	RS
2014–15	1	Serie A	1st	Winner	2 Eurocup	R32
2015–16	1	Serie A	7th	Quarterfinalist	1 Euroleague	RS
2015–16	1	Serie A	7th	Quarterfinalist	2 Eurocup	R32
2016–17	1	LBA	5th	Runner-up	3 Champions League	QF
2017–18	1	LBA	10th		3 Champions League	RS
2017–18	1	LBA	10th		4 FIBA Europe Cup	R16
2018–19	1	LBA	2nd	Semifinalist	4 FIBA Europe Cup	C
2019–20	1	LBA	2nd	Quarterfinalist	3 Champions League	R16
2020–21	1	LBA	5th	Quarterfinalist	3 Champions League	R16

Players[]

Retired numbers[]

The American naturalized-Italian guard Travis Diener was the second player to have his number retired by Dinamo

Dinamo Sassari retired numbers
No	Nat.	Player	Position	Tenure
12		Emanuele Rotondo	G	1991–2007
12		Travis Diener	G	2010–2014

Current roster[]

Banco di Sardegna Sassari roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
SG	3	Logan, David	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	77 kg (170 lb)	39 – (1982-12-26)26 December 1982
G	4	Robinson, Gerald	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	77 kg (170 lb)	32 – (1989-02-10)10 February 1989
SG	6	Krušlin, Filip	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	94 kg (207 lb)	32 – (1989-03-18)18 March 1989
C	7		2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	110 kg (243 lb)	36 – (1985-11-07)7 November 1985
G/F	8	Devecchi, Giacomo (C)	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	36 – (1985-04-02)2 April 1985
F	9	Treier, Kaspar	2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)	105 kg (231 lb)	22 – (1999-09-19)19 September 1999
G	10	Chessa, Massimo	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	80 kg (176 lb)	33 – (1988-04-30)30 April 1988
SF	14	Burnell, Jason	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	24 – (1997-08-15)15 August 1997
F	20	Bendžius, Eimantas	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)	102 kg (225 lb)	31 – (1990-04-23)23 April 1990
C	21		2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	110 kg (243 lb)	26 – (1995-03-17)17 March 1995
G	22	Gentile, Stefano	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	94 kg (207 lb)	32 – (1989-09-20)20 September 1989
F/C	25		2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	21 – (2000-02-19)19 February 2000

Head coach

Piero Bucchi

Assistant coach(es)

Giacomo Baioni
Giorgio Gerosa
Matteo Boccolini

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: January 10, 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Depth chart[]

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Christian Mekowulu	Luca Gandini
PF	Eimantas Bendžius	Kaspar Treier	Ousmane Diop
SF	Jason Burnell	Stefano Gentile	Giacomo Devecchi
SG	David Logan
PG	Gerald Robinson	Filip Krušlin	Massimo Chessa

(colours: Italian or homegrown players; foreign players; young players)

References[]

^ "Dinamo, trionfo storico in Germania: Sassari si aggiudica la Europe Cup". Sardinia Post. 1 May 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ "Legabasket". Web.legabasket.it. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Dinamo Sassari win maiden FIBA Europe Cup title". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
^ "Reyer Venezia wins Italian LBA championship". sportando.basketball. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.

External links[]

Official site (in Italian)
Eurobasket.com Team Page

[Champions-1] "Dinamo, trionfo storico in Germania: Sassari si aggiudica la Europe Cup". Sardinia Post. 1 May 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

[2] "Legabasket". Web.legabasket.it. Retrieved 24 January 2012.

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] "Dinamo Sassari win maiden FIBA Europe Cup title". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2 May 2019.

[5] "Reyer Venezia wins Italian LBA championship". sportando.basketball. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.

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v t Banco di Sardegna Sassari current roster
3 Logan 4 Robinson 6 Krušlin 7 8 Devecchi (C) 9 Treier 10 Chessa 14 Burnell 20 Bendžius 21 22 Gentile 25
Head coach: Bucchi

v t Dinamo Sassari 2018–19 FIBA Europe Cup champions
0 Spissu 1 2 Smith 3 McGee 6 Carter 8 Devecchi 15 Magro 21 Pierre 22 Gentile 25 Thomas 33 Polonara 45 Cooley
Head coach: Pozzecco Assistant coaches: Casalone Gerosa