(-3.5) Barcelona - Panathinaikos

Barcelona came from Milan with 90-85, with 4 being the winner of the 6-10-7-4 record, with Pesic looking to 7 from the minimum distance of a victory. The blaugarna overcame the misfortune that passed through mid-December when, with very bad scoring rates, they won just one match of their sixth time in a Championship and Euroleague, with the team running 2 76,6 and 6. Of the teams that receive the fewest points in this year's 70,6 event, a number that is reduced by 3 points to Palau Boulogran with 70 being the best home defensive performance of the institution, with 15 last teams hosted surpass 70 and when one of them is the best this year Efes who put only XNUMX points against it in a half-time, but before the champion European Real for the championship, that says a lot about the energy the team draws from Defense in Barcelona. He has been playing with a lot of energy in the defense this season, and once the aggressive raise came, it was reasonable to make the victories. Only champion Fener and Olympiacos have gone through this year's headquarters, being the only teams to keep it under XNUMX.

Panathinaikos, following the shipwreck at the SEF, returned to victories in Bayern's very critical hospitality, a team that is equidistant with him now at 8, without Lundford and Antheducumbo. 77-67 gave the green people the opportunity to gain an advantage in the event of a tie with the Germans, but the appearance of the group once again was not an exciting one, except for its presence in the first 10 minute that took action and preceded with 22-11 the rest of the match being balanced and Bayern just can not narrow the gap because Derrick Williams was desperately lonely. This was what Pittino noted after the fight, who said the following: "When we won the CSKA I was happy. Now I'm not happy. It is not a team that does not play with the fundamental principles of basketball, make mistakes and give rebounds after shots. And even several times ... ", he even spoke about the physical condition of his team which is not what he wants and allows him to apply the pressure he wants to practice in the defense and the tactics he wants to apply to the group. And all this having just one day to prepare for the race in Barcelona and with his best players against the Germans Papapetrou and Kalathis to be on the parquet for 37 and 34 minutes respectively. It is also the team's mix in the European away games, which Pittino did not manage to eliminate, as it did in the SEF last week. A victory has all the team away from OAKA at 2 this year's trip to the event against Budoucintos and 67-72 with a problematic appearance and 1 score, and beyond XNUMX of this year's European trip to Milan, it did not even make it competing in what followed. I do not know whether the addition of Kiltpatrick and when he integrates with the team, and any further reinforcement will improve the team, with three away games against Barcelona, ​​Zalgiris Kaunas and Maccabi to show very much the ceiling of this year's Panathinaikos.

However, as far as his visit to Barcelona is concerned, I do not see things and so optimistic about the greens. I do not like to face Greek teams in Euroleague, but there are so many reasons in the paragraphs that leave me no choice, especially since I find the handicap on the 3 points against an opponent who is in excellent condition and has the best home defense of the institution against a particularly disadvantaged team that hardly puts 70 points and has lost its last 7 visits to Barcelona.

Barcelona - Panathinaikos: 1 (-3,5) (@ 1,80) Winmasters.