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Other Thursday matches looks a bit difficult to predict so I decided to skip them and write reviews for you. Maybe published info could be useful for some of you.
Barcelona vs Choralle Roanne
Dusko Ivanovic, AXA coach of FC Barcelona, today urged his players to face the third game of the Euroleague, compared with Roanne French Chorale in Palau, with the mentality necessary to rely only on ourselves on the track "and assured that his team has already worked for the champion French "no surprise".
For its part, the pivot of the Italian AXA FC Barcelona Denis Marconato predicted that the Chorale Roanne "will be stronger than normal" in Palau and defensive assured that the work "will be the key to the match."
Barcelona is one best teams when we talk about tactical attitude to the game. If they will be able to force Roanne in low-tempo game this game would be really easy for spanish team. Roanne still have no depth in the roster and it's hard to play with 6 man in rotation 2 times per week on high level. Sooner or later Roanne coach should rest his players and today's could be a good option for this especially if Barca will build early lead. Looking into stats I would prefer taking Roanne +14.5 at Pinnacle for 1.82 but still have some doubts about their motivation today.
AJ Milano vs Unicaja
Unicaja will be measured on Thursday at Olympia Armani Jeans Milan in the Euroleague match with low by injury of Marcus Haislip. Even without hip Unicaja roster is much stronger than AJ Milano but looking into last year results in Euroleague Unicaja was not a good investment in away matches. Today they will play against Milano team which is in deep crisis but this game (as well 2 others against Varese and Benetton) should be turn around point for them and that's why avoid taking Unicaja to win. Also we should not forget that looking into the past we should not forget than Milano is one of best home teams in Italy. Everything is possible here.
Prokom Trefl - Tau Ceramica
The technician Croatian TAU Ceramica, Neven Spahija, stood his main objective for the trip to Poland to win the encounter tomorrow against Prokom Trefl Sopot, rather than playing good and continuity during the forty minutes. "The main goal at this point is to win the game of Gdansk, although we do not know if we can play well tomorrow and a consistently for thirty or forty minutes," forward the preparer of all baskonista hours before undertaking travel by air to land Polish.
"The only problem we have now is that our bench is short because of injuries and, although it may be that the rival to which we have faced until recently were not very strong, no one can say a priori that rivals tomorrow is going to be easy to break, "he said Spahija.
"These are players with extensive experience in European tournaments and also very dangerous, especially in attack, so that everyone will agree that they are a good team, although the basic American Dajuan Wagner is very unlikely that it could act tomorrow by having some physical problems, " said Neven Spahija.
If Wagner would play today I would take Prokom +7.5 in the early morning. Prokom was always are hard team to beat in Poland and if they would play full roster I would predict equal game today because Prokom would be able to score points. Without Wagner they are not looking so deep in offense because in this team only 2-3 players on the field can score points: Gurovic, Wagner-Slanina and Best. Also their offense too much depends on sniper hot hand and opponent defense. If Gurovic, Slanina and Best will find their shot today and Tau will strugle in defense Prokom will have good chances to fight if not this could be another Zalgiris-Prokom.
Anyway I don't see easy Tau Ceramica win in Poland today and I rate Prokom chances to hold 7-8 points handicap as good but enough for seriuos stake.
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