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Georgia have been wakened the entire preparation period and barely played any games complete. That is why they weren't successful in about half the games. They beat Portugal by 19, Belarus by 12 and got defeat to Russia badly. They beat the Dutch and the Ukrainians at a tournament home in Tbilisi and then finally complete lost to the powerful Russia in overtime. They weren't complete in Poland either because they didn't want to take any risks with Shengelia and Dixon and didn't use Pachulia as much as they could, whichs is why the defeats to Sweden and Poland aren't surprising. They are now complete but Shengelia and Dixon probably won't get too much time on the floor since they face Albania. Albania are back after 4 years with a team mostly made of players from the Albanian league and from Kosovo. They have an American point guard Broadus but he didn't play any test games and has never played with his teammates before. Albania lost to Cyprus in a test game by 43 points (-29 at half time) and then by 7 to weakened Estonia (-17 at half time) and then somehow beat Qatar after being 12 points down at half time. In Estonia, they lost to the home team by 53 (37 at half time), to Israel (players 22,5 years on average) by 65 (-31 at half time). The only good thing was the meeting with Ukraine but their opponents didn't use their top players. Since Albania never went over 25 points in the first 20 minutes in any of those games, the team under in the first half is a good option as well but given the big difference in quality, I expect things to get settled here early on. The first half handicap therefore seems like a better option. The Albanians cannot deal with Shengelia, Pacgulia and other Georgians.