Derby "eternal" in Euroleague with Olympiacos to welcome Panathinaikos to SEF.
The home team Olympiakos has been having a good season lately, even getting some big victories (Efes inside, Barcelona outside) but the "cuff" came from the last Daroussafaka and landed them in the reality of the Euroleague. In any case, Olympiakos has a tradition of making at least one such defeat every year. Now in the game with Panathinaikos he will be deprived as everything shows the services of J. Timma who not to forget in the game of the first round was the second scorer of the team with 17 points with 5/6 trips. I also see Toupane after the 2-3 good games he made after his injury going through a period of deformity having scored 6 points in the last three games with 1/10 trips. Mantzaris is missing this year, Spanoulis in the "eternal" derby is usually bad, Strelnieks and W. Goss remain to pull the oar on the periphery. Printezis with Milutinov and Leday are expected to get the biggest part in the scoring field.
On the other hand, Panathinaikos seems to be back on his feet after many consecutive bad performances by emphatically defeating CSKA with 96-84. The advent of the new coach shows that he has changed the team's psychology and the players are playing more confidently. They have changed the way of play by making more efforts than the painted and playing aggressive defense at the foul. He makes frequent changes (showing that he counts them all) keeping the team fresh to put pressure as long as he can try to reach the 35 deflections which he considers the key to win the team. Finally, Pappas was overcome by the tonsillitis that troubled him.
Summing up, I think the buck did not weigh the game properly and I was expecting the 3 line below for the host. Certainly derby is all possible results but the data is currently different.
According to the above the point I choose is Panathinaikos (+ 5,5)