Euroleague - Tau Ceramica vs Olympiacos Basketball betting preview

Ok another game for Euroleague with a clear favorite.Tau Ceramica meets Olympiakos at home tomorrow.The two teams have met each other two times this season for the starting groups of the competition.Olympiakos beat Tau in Athens at the first game of the year by 19 points and Tau won the second match in Spain with 89-74 final score.

The truth is that at first i was going to bet some money at a possible under 160.5 total points pick that sportingbet offers for this game but i changed my mind.After some thinking and study i ended up with an over 73 points for Olympiakos.The Reds started the season impressively by scoring 85 points per game but later coach Pini Gerson was forced to change the way his team was playing.The reason was the many injuries that the greek team had.It was rather impossible for the "healthy" players to keep a fast tempo in every game.Now we have reached the top8 phase of Euroleague and in order to qualify Olympiakos has to play with full powers.In fact just with defense against Tau the possibilities for win are not much.It would be a success for the Reds to keep the spanish team under 80 points and to score just one point more.On the other hand Tau with Bojintar Malkovic as head coach is in a furious form.The serbian is a defense supporter but from information from Spain(Jaimeg)I heard that he has problems to convince the players to play strong defense.Some of them like Rakocevic do not even know what defense means.

In my head i have two possible scenarios for tomorrow.At the first we have a close game for 40 minutes and at the end of the game some extra free throws.In this case a probable score will be 78-78 or 79-76 or something like that.At the second scenario i see an easy win for the spanish team.As it is known the tomorrow game is the first leg from a possible three-game series so i expect a loose performance at the last quarter of the match because the two teams would like to keep some powers for the next game in Athens.I think a 8/10 stake here would be fine.

Pick : Olympiakos over 73 points
Odds : 1.86
Stake : 8 / 10
Bookmaker : 10bet
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