Efes Pilsen (-4) - Panathinaikos

Good year, health above all, and I hope 2013 will bring better days to everyone and to the world at large.
The first choice for this year is from Euroleague and 2, the Panathinaikos group's racing phase, traveling to Istanbul to face Efes Pilsen. The greens will be deprived of the services of the leader and their leader Dimitris Diamantidis - whose performance in defense and attack is a barometer for the overall appearance of the team - while Marcus Banks is faced with an injury problem that is expected to be used for some time. The 16-67 premiere may have forced Zalgiris to 66-12, but it was due to the three-pointers having 23 / 8 throughout the game, the last one of which was Banks under tremendous pressure that largely reflected the outcome of the match. With Diamantidis present as he did not seem to have any problems in organizing aggressively with Uckic (the magic image of 2 assist he had) to hold the ball almost all the time, without being able to find a free teammate . So despite Kapon's outbreak at XNUMX and the big difference they managed to secure early in the game, they managed to win in the last few seconds. Tonight Schortsianitis returns, but he is not at the very least ready for a while since he was missing from the stadiums and without Diamantidis on the parquet it will hardly be fed under the basket. Unpublished - and nervous in the attack - also showed Gist who has not yet been fully integrated in the team and this will be just his second game with the green jersey while he will be also the third Champion who will hardly find so many free shots again .
Efes on the other side will rely on its regional players, especially since there are no better defensive opponents, especially the Vujacic triad (transformed at home), Farmar and Savanovic. The Turks want the victory in today's game as they fight with the two German teams in the group (and apparently the weakest) Alba and Bamberg and aspire to reach the 3 wins at the end of the 4 first races in order to gain from early lead for a place in the quadruple in their group. They played in Moscow before CSKA but at the end of the 3 season they seemed surprised, but then dropped and lost relatively easily. However, in Istanbul they are traditionally shown stronger, with the help of their people (who have a special incentive to help their team especially when dealing with Greek clubs) and I think they will win relatively easily. Besides, he is quite complete in all positions (except Gordon, Sip, Erden, Gühler, Barac to the roster) and has proven he can play good defense and good aggressiveness .
I will safely go down on a handicap which can still be found in fairly good performance for at least one and is expected to grow during the day as the turf ace generally receives enough bet.
Already in the forum of infobeto and in the basketball section there are some predictions for today and maybe even more during the day so if there are some news to take a look at here