Basket league day today with several interesting matches. However, the Thessaloniki derby stands out with Paok hosting Iraklis.
Paok's team is slowly improving and rising in the standings and is already in the leading positions in the playoffs. Its strength is the home where it has achieved 4 victories in 5 matches. Rich offensive talent, although it lags behind defensively, but most of the time it finally prevails, even with difficulty. The quartet of foreigners Griffin, Love, Beach and Turner pull the team with the Greeks most of the time having a secondary role. The team is expected to line up in full.
On the other hand, Iraklis seems to have problems especially in scoring lately (in the latter he has not scored in any more than 74 points while in several he remained much lower) and some changes have already started in the roster after the change of coach. Daniel is a thing of the past with the African Enetziona being his replacement while the next one will logically be Moore who has not been satisfied so far.
Summing up I think that Paok is on a better moon and has the first say. Iraklis must slow down if he wants to have hopes of staying close to the score. If this does not happen, maybe Paok will be able to reach the level of the first match (75-57) and try to get an advantage in case of a draw.
The point I choose is ... Paok (-5.5 & Under 160.5 pts) in performance 2.92 at stoiximan.