NLB League - Cibona v Zagreb

Got to take this one early,I believe the price is going to drop soon.

Cibona has won 6 previous meetings against Zagreb and all 5 in the last season.Cibona was always in status of older brother comparing to Zagreb but that could easily change soon.This is going to a game full of emotions from both sides,the tensions are going to be high as there is so many players willing to prove something in this derby,a match of No1 and No2 at the moment in NLB.So let s start from the visitors-

Zagreb is coming from the loss in Eurochallenge,from the Kyev,but from the game that has not been set high at their priority list.There are 5 players in Zagreb that have spend 21 year alltogether playing for Cibona and most of them either did not get the real opportunity(Zoric)or they were treated unfairly and with no respect they have deserved(Mulaomerovic and especially Prkacin).Stimac and Krstic are both professionals but as ex Cibona s players I feel they will be fired up for this one also.Mulaomerovic and Prkacin have not travel to Kyev so they will be fresh and ready,unfortunately Barac is not ready yet.Zagreb will surely have certain advantages in this game and they are experience-for the first time Zagreb is older and Cibona is younger team,motivation-Zagreb will do everything to win this one,size and quality in the paint-Zoric,Prkacin and Tomic are Euroleague trio of centers,balance in offense-Stimac can open the paint with his three point shooting,and Simon can create for himself and for the others,momentum as they are playing great and they are full of confidence and of course,the longer bench,as they will play with at least 10 players in this one.

Cibona has lost a game against ASVEL is wednesday where they had everything you could have in a basketball game for 37 mins.They were solid in defense and patient in offense but at the end,they ended this one like the real amateurs,in a shameful way.I could not even imagine all the hard words in a locker room after the match and that could leave some wounds on this,still young and unexperienced team.After that ugly episode with Graves,in which coach Perasovic threated this poor american(ok,he was way beyond expectactions,but that s not the way to treat anybody) they are even shorter team.Coach Perasovic does not trust Princ or Troha and he says it openly,so his rotation would be Radosevic and Zubcic with Andric and Vukusic under the basket(Bagaric is still out),Rozic,Tomas,Bogdanovic and Gordon from outside.So,8 guys from which 3 are under 21 yo,one is really modest player(Andric),one did not connect two shots in a whole season(Bogdanovic) and without real PG because Gordon is really not a PG,just a muscled regular guy.However Cibona can and will play hard D,and the two factors they could be on their side is their pride and fighting spirit,and these are the only reasons I will not go with full stakes here.To those who likes to go with the bigger prices,the possible Zagreb win is 3.17,but I will go with more conservative style here so Zagreb+6,9 units is good enough for me,GL!

Pick : Zagreb+6
Odds : 1.91
Stake : 9 / 10
Bookmaker : Pinnacle
Match Result : 113-76
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