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Tau Ceramica vs. Pamesa Valencia
Tau will be without Planinic and Rakocevic (was training but still highly doubtful), Jasaitis plays with injury, Mickael and Splitter had some injury problems too but will play. Sure Tau have deep bench but without Planinic and Rakocevic I can't expect best offensive game from them. They are currently on 4 games losing streak and maybe their best from came to them a little bit early than they wanted... Let's see today.
Pamesa on other side looks much more confident with last 2 wins and full roster. Pamesa have enought talent to fight with Tau away but unfortunately sometimes when playing away from they can't find their game and psychological factor could be a key in this game. If Pamesa will be agressive, and will not turnover ball too much every kind of surprises are possible in my point of view. They wanted these series and I think that Katsikaris have game plan for this game. Line is moving down to +6 from +7 and I think that this line movement is right. Also I don't expect many points from this game but late fouls and 3-point shooter are main risk here. I expect to see close game with winner to be decided in the end of 4th quarter. Prediction: Tau Ceramica 78 - 74 Pamesa Valencia Pick: Pamesa (+8) @ 1.71 Bet365 F. C. Barcelona vs. Bilbao Basket
For AXA FC Barcelona, it is almost an obligation to qualify into next season Euroleague if possible before the beginning of a new phase in which it has hired Joan Creus as technical secretary. The team headed Xavi Pascual aspires to everything in Playoff and hopes to benefit from not starting as league favourite. Resigned to leave team at the end of the season ( "I am the easier it is that from day one because it is clear that not continue and I never said anything against it," he said), Pascual valued tangentially the arrival of Creus "someone dear beloved and he will do very well. " Barcelona for sure will fight without thinking about next season but it is really a bit strange situation because it's hard to give your best to the team when you know that you will not work here as coach or player. Let's how this will affect on team mentality. Bilbao on other side looks much better. All players are finaly healthy (Weis had some health troubles but should play), team is on fire these days and finaly they won against Barcelona 3 times this season (Supercopa, King's Cup and Regular season). 3 of 4 games ended under 145 points while only last game in Bilbao which was not important for Barca ended with high score. Now it should be another story. Both teams tends not to allow opponents to score 75 points. Bilbao in example did not allow their opponents to score more than 78 points only 4 times in 17 away games. While average of these 13 games was only 72.5. Barcelona allowing only 69 pts per game at home and used to rely on defense in important matches. I have seen 2 games between these clubs this season and I expect to see a lot of defense from both sides and low tempo game is expected too. I would set 144.5-145 pts line for play-off kind of game for these teams and would not be suprised to see 130-135 points game because of playoff factor. Prediction: Barcelona 75 - 68 Bilbao Pick: Under 148.5 @ 1.74 Bet365 New articles on this topic:
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