Game between its first regular season of Euroleague CSKA and the qualitative Chimki of Bartzoka, which however has not at least managed to become a team. What, of course, the future holds for us will be learned very soon.
For CSKA, the words are unnecessary. It comes from an excellent normal record with a record 24 wins - 6 defeats. Of course, the team of Itudi showed us that he is not invincible this year. He remains one of the great favorites to win the trophy. I appreciate, of course, that he will not succeed.
Do it a little longer? I think he'll go to the final. There he will find an opponent either Baskonia, if he excludes Fener, and otherwise (Fener's qualification) the winner of the couple Olympiacos-Zagliris. So I think the trophy will go to Olympiakos or Baskonia or Zalgiris. This is my appreciation and intuition if you want, which of course involves great risk. Hopefully a Greek team will pick it up!
Returning to CSKA to note that she has only once lost to Fenerbahce in the regular season and will be staged tomorrow without Kyle Hines.
On the other hand, Chimki with the expensive and qualitative roster has probably made a modest turn. He qualified comfortably in the octave, but would expect something better than the eighth place. Of course she had injuries last which completely disintegrated her. But not that coach Bartzoka had been able to create a coherent team. Its presence in the VTB is disappointing with 12 9 victories and XNUMX defeats.
Since the beginning of the season, 5 times have been counted. Chimki once defeated the Gomelski Cup (84-77) and the other four CSKA, two for the Euroleague (79-68 and 73-90) and two for the VTB (81-96 and 90-71). I'm waiting for a tight match for the two teams, due to the criticality of the first game of the series. But if we see this year's games as soon as it has surpassed the limit of 167 points.
CSKA - Khimki | Under 167 pts | Goalbet | 1.94 | 4/10