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Macedonia beat Bulgaria yesterday 77-62 which is no surprise because the Bulgarians are just building a new team and don't have 6 players from last year. Macedonia says that the goal here is to get their game organized, to create connection between players because they played no intentional games in the past three years. They played qualifiers for EC in 2014 and lost 66-108 and 59-101 to Lithuania, 53-78 and 60-71 and Belgium 66-94 and 58-95. Even though it's been a while since, Macedonia have not changed.
Japan beat Bosnia easily yesterday. Their coach, well aware of their dominance, rested most key players. I have no doubt they will go full throttle again today and their top players will probably get more time on the floor. Macedonia rely too much on their American with the rest of the team mostly being inexperienced and young. The big difference in quality and the amount of time they spent together. Apart from the handicap, a good option is team over at Japan as well. They prefer fast transition and I don't think Macedonia are capable of slowing them down.