Third WC day has been splited into 2 calendar days to provide some rest for the teams so we have only six matches today and tomorrow. Yesterday we have a really great day so today we have to be careful and continue without any euphoria.

Turkey - Russia

Turkey had 2 quarters when they scored 17 and 13 points to poor Cot d Ivoire defense. H.Turkoglu was 0/8 from the game and whole team showed just 43% FG against african defense. The only reason why they scored 86 points was high tempo. Accodring to my own stats it was 182 possesions game (USA had 184..)

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Finland - Italy
Latvia - Israel

Two very similar matches. Host sides has no realistic chances to promote from this group while Italy and Israel are fighting for best 2nd position in group and also they have to get there with best possible points margin to have advantage against group B and C opponents in case of tie-situation. So on one side handicaps set a bit higher than they should be in normal match but on other side Italy & Israel for sure will try to win with higher margin.