Panathinaikos - Zalgiris The tail derby is being held at OAKA with Panathinaikos hosting Zalgiris.
Another "potato" of the euroleague as the reason he says that the match is being held is because he wants the matches that will take place to be more than the postponed ones !!!!!!!!!!!!
Panathinaikos is coming down with half a team as Nedovic, Kaselakis, Sant-Ross, Evans will be missing, while Simtsak has taken on the role of coach. We are expected to see a long time zone and quite relaxed defense as the team must be protected from fouls so we expect maybe a bigger score than expected.
On the other hand, Zalgiris is not at its best, it has to play for 2 weeks as the previous match with Armani was postponed due to cases against the Italians. For the Lithuanian championship, it was difficult to beat Juventus in overtime with Cavanaugh being the team's top scorer and first rebounder. The team has made some additions but there is no substantial improvement whenever one of them can not come off the last position.
In summary I can not guess who will be the final winner but two players can verify the predictions. One from the side of Panathinaikos is Mantzoukas who due to the absences is expected to take more time than usual and does not hesitate to shoot when the opportunity arises while he is expected to find more space from his teammates as he is not one of its first-class names team that will surely have more surveillance than their opponents.
From the side of Zalgiris, Cavanaugh is consistently one of the best of the Lithuanians in the last matches and with the good shot he has from afar, he can easily become a double-digit opponent against the definitely not suffocating defense of the Panathinaikos players.
The point I choose is ... Mantzoukas Over 3.5 pts & Kavano Over 8.5 pts into a Combo in total odds 3.75 at stoiximan.
