In a traditional Euroleague derby, Olympiacos welcomes Barcelona to SEF.
The two teams that are usually in the final 4 for the last 6-7 years have had open accounts since last year when "Agios" Georgios Printezis on the day of his name day sent Olympiakos to the final 4 with the buzzer beater three-pointer in the last second with overall score in the series to be 3-1.
Many things have changed since then with Barcelona counting the losses of Huerta, Hezonia but strengthening in the basket with Laval and Samuels as a back up of soft Tomic. The Catalans come from a great victory in Madrid against Real with 91-84 on Sunday night and are in 2nd place in the league with 12-1 with a single defeat in Basconia by Laboral of Bouroussi. In the Euroleague he finished in 2nd place of the group with 6-4 but was disappointing away losing to Panathinaikos, Karsiyaka and Kuban .In these matches Barcelona showed that except for position 5 (Samuels, Laval) it lags behind in sports qualifications and strength, as a result of which it has serious problems against teams that will play it on the verge of foul. Also, behind Doelman no There is a clear 4 ari with the result that many times the heavy Samuels chases the opponents 4 ari in the three-point line. Samuels does not have the fast legs to follow the Greek forward.
Olympiakos acquired Odom from Trabzonspor as Lozeski seems to have a serious problem and James for Yang's position, who will return in May. of Barcelona while Printezis does not have a quality player to support him at 4. If Printezis and Hunter endure 30 minutes, Olympiakos will be very close to victory since it has the players in the periphery to stop Barcelona's offensive weapons. It is surprising that the Spanish League and the Euroleague put Barcelona to play two away matches with Real and Olympiakos within 48 hours and while there was a journey between the two games.
All the data lead me to the ace of Olympiakos who pays well at 1,82.