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Top 16 Week 1 - TalkBasket - 02-09-2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
CSKA Moscow - Lottomatica 18:15 CET
Efes Pilsen - Panathinaikos 19:15 CET
Lietuvos Rytas - Tau Ceramica 19:15 CET
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Aris - Fenerbahce 19:45 CET
Montepaschi - Partizan 20:30 CET
Real Madrid - à ½algiris 20:45 CET
Olympiacos - Maccabi Elite 20:45 CET
AXA FC Barcelona - Unicaja 20:45 CET
Your predictions?
- GRB - 02-09-2008
i would expect all home teams to win, including efes. Away games won't be easy at this stage. <!-- s:ball: -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/basketball.gif[/img]<!-- s:ball: -->
- TalkBasket - 02-09-2008
[quote name='"GRB":r854eex6']i would expect all home teams to win, including efes. Away games won't be easy at this stage. <!-- s:ball: -->[img]{SMILIES_PATH}/basketball.gif[/img]<!-- s:ball: -->[/quote]
Hey, welcome to the forum. Please stick around.
Home teams are the favourites with an exception of Efes Pilsen in my opinion.
My predictions:
CSKA Moscow - Lottomatica
Efes Pilsen - Panathinaikos
Lietuvos Rytas - Tau Ceramica
Aris - Fenerbahce
Montepaschi - Partizan
Real Madrid - à ½algiris
Olympiacos - Maccabi Elite
FC Barcelona - Unicaja
- Black Urum - 02-09-2008
[color="#FF0000"]CSKA Moscow[/color] - Lottomatica
Efes Pilsen - [color="#FF0000"]Panathinaikos[/color]
[color="#FF0000"]Lietuvos Rytas[/color] - Tau Ceramica
[color="#FF0000"]Aris[/color] - Fenerbahce
[color="#FF0000"]Montepaschi[/color] - Partizan
[color="#FF0000"]Real Madrid[/color] - à ½algiris
Olympiacos - [color="#FF0000"]Maccabi Elite[/color]
FC Barcelona - [color="#FF0000"]Unicaja[/color]
- Rivers7 - 02-10-2008
Well I think the best game will be: Olympiakos vs Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Barcelona vs Unicaja Malaga. I hope my team will achieve the first victory which is very important in this stage. I also hope Panathinaikos and Aris will manage to win over their opponents. Go Greece, go!!! <!-- s
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- MarkoMilic - 02-12-2008
CSKA Moscow - Lottomatica
Efes Pilsen - Panathinaikos
Lietuvos Rytas - Tau Ceramica
Aris - Fenerbahce
Montepaschi - Partizan
Real Madrid - à ½algiris
Olympiacos - Maccabi Elite
FC Barcelona - Unicaja
- pata - 02-12-2008
Cska Moscow - Lottomatica
Efes Pilsen - Panathinaikos
Lietuvos Rytas - Tau Ceramica
Aris - Fenerbahçe
Montepaschi - Partizan
Real Madrid - Zalgiris
Olympiakos - Maccabi
Barcelona - Unicaja
- TalkBasket - 02-14-2008
CSKA Moscow 72 - 71 Lottomatica
Efes Pilsen 74 - 64 Panathinaikos
Lietuvos Rytas 81 - 84 Tau Ceramica
2 of 3 group winners lost. I am very interested in hearing what happened in Istanbul. Now about what I saw. CSKA were down by 11 with less than 2 minutes to go. We all know what they can do in such a short time but I was rooting for Lottomatica and it looked like they could hold till the end. CSKA down by 2 and Langdon hits a buzzer beater 3-pointer <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />A tight game was expected in Vilnius and so it was. Rytas couldn't find ways to score and were behind by 5-8 points for most of the time. At one point in the 3rd quarter TAU were ahead by 11. But Trifunovic changed the game and final minutes were really great to watch. It have gone either way but Price made a very costly turnover with less than 10 seconds to go. If these two teams will fight for a place in Quarter-Finals then and theri win-loss balance will be the same then it would be enought for Rytas to win by 4 in Vitoria.
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- TalkBasket - 02-15-2008
Aris 88-96 Fenerbahce Ulker
Montepaschi 71-54 Partizan
Barcelona 64-62 Unicaja
Real Madrid 88-85 à ½algiris
Olympiacos 67-75 Maccabi
I was pleasantly surprised with what à ½algiris did last night. They played away against one of the favourites to win EL and did really well. More organised defence could have brought a win. N'Diaye fit in well which can not be said about Markota. He's still adjusting. Overall it was a good game and I enjoyed it despite the final result. Both Lithuanian clubs lost but I see positive things in that. If they play like that in the rest of Top 16 games anything can happen.