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I can accept that Buducnost are the favorites based on their past few seasons but they cannot be heavy favorites here, especially given their results and current form this season. Apart from their result against Astrakhanochka, Buducnost have just one convincing win this season - the one over Thuringer in Podgorica. Thuringer lost last week to FTC in Budapest by 8 goals. In the other three home games, the team from Podgoriac struggled. They lost to Vardar, beat Glassverket by a goal and beat Metz 21-19. Ferencvaros beat Metz two weeks ago away 28-25. They got a point against Vardar in Skopje (27-27) and got trashed by the same team in Budapest (24-37). We have 6 wins and a draw for Ferencvarsos this season. They did better then Podgorica. Granted, there was a bad defeat to Vardar but Vardar and Buducnost aren't similar. Vardar score a lot of goals and play at a high pace, while Buducnost don't have the kind of a game for the race. They rely on back players and defense. FTC, on the other hand, acquired one more player for back line, both goal keepers are doing brilliantly and have top numbers. To sum up, I think this will be a close game. FTC have a good chance to win, even if this ends up being a game of low numbers. Buducnost is closer to a win but not by more than 2-3 goals. Details

Bilbao and Fuenlabrada already played 3 head-to-head games this season and all three went over this margin. Those played at Fuenlabrada were at 169 and 167 points, and the one at Bilbao at 180 points. That is no coincidence because these teams play fast basketball and are not really focused on defense. In the last 10 away games, Fuenlabrada limited their opponents to under 86 points only twice. Three times they conceded over 100 points, 4 times over 90 this season in away games. On the other side, they are great offensively, they have a lot of great shooters, and they added Hettesheimer as shooter in position dive. Bilbao are a team that has no options but to play fast because they are comprised of offensively oriented players like Bamforth, Mumbru, Hervelle and centers Buve and Eric who are at a high efficiency percentage in the paint. They are also struggling with defense because they allowed over 82 points in 4 of the last 5 home games, and that is a consequence of their fast pace. Their head-to-heads have shown that these two teams go over this margin easily, even though they have not shot well in those games and made a lot of turnovers. With an average shot efficiency today they won't have any problems to go up to 170 points. Details