Unics - Hapoel Jerusalem

Unics for sure now is no at its best condition. As far as I know in last game vs. Lokomotiv Kuban Veremeenko sat out whole game, Stombergas played with injury, Kuzyakin was ill and Loncar was not with team. Officialy due the injury, but before the game there were some rumours that Loncar could be sent to CSKA Moscow in exchange for Mensa Bonsu and Sokolov. This info was denied by Moscow club in the press today but who knows...

I was not able to find any info regarding possible missings in tonight game but I think that we should expect all of them to be on the court because none of those injuries are seriuos and maybe coach tried to rotate the roster before very important in Eurocup.... But I have really big doubts regarding their form. Team was looking pathetic and tired in last 3 games with Dynamo, Pamesa and Lokomotiv Kuban.

In-form Hapoel should be able to hold handicap if they will score 70+ points today.

Brose Baskets - Bilbao

Bilbao is simply another level for Brose Baskets is all aspects of the game and I think that Spanish club wants to get playoff ticket before the King's cup in Spain will start. Brose has one of their leaders Givel questionable for this game but even with him I can't see the line for this match with almost equal chance.

Bilbao should be able to put pressure on German team in defense and use its bench depth, size advantage to get a comfortable win in Bamberg.

Pick: Bilbao (-1.5) @ 1.90 4/10 William Hill

ALBA - Aris

Nobody has expected Aris to lose last week at home to Le Mans. Now D.Blatt's team needs to win game in Berlin to have realistic chance to promote from this group. Aris players are experienced enough and motivated now to fight for a victory or at least for points margin in case of loss. ALBA will miss their center A.Chubb again and this could a big blow for them in today's matchup because Aris has very strong inside players like Betts, Dikoudis and Kakiuozis.

Aris form is much better than their results. They won against Olympiacos, they lost only by 2 points in Badalona, they were leading against Olympiacos in Pireus at HT and lost only by 5 points there, but they lost to Lemans after that game.. The only result which was not logical for me in their last games. But I think that it happened mainly because team had only 1 day for rest before that game and they stopped playing in 4th quarter because of this.

So far Aris is an outsider of the group but everything could be changed if they win today in Berlin.

Pick: Aris +5.5 @ 1.85 4/10 William Hill