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Totas qualified for last season's play-off in the last round, got a wild card for the Eurocup, their sponsors Fiat probably gave them a financial injection so they acquired Paunic, Morgan, Pierrie, Owens and Kadji. They are a good team on paper, but so far only a group of individuals. Their crucial players are still last year's key players, Mejia and Crocker, while Micic's departure is a big handicap. They lost their last pre-season game 88-81 to Eskisehir, Efes defeated them 88-67, Lokomotiv 84-70, they lost to Novgorod (who lost to Belgians in the Champions League), then to Milan, while they defeated only Gaziantep, Sakariya and Aris.
On the other side we have Darussafaka where David Blatt put together a team of hungry players, who have become a real team over the Summer and who have impressed me in every way. I watched their tournament in Moscow against CSKA and Panathinaikos, and their last pre-season game against Efes. They lost to CSKA by a basket or two, the next day defeated Panathinaikos and later Efes, so they are at the level of three Euroleague teams. Before that they defeated Zenit, Promitheas and Istanbul IBB.
Blatt has put together an aggressive team, I haven't seen something like that even in Zvezda in their best days with Radonjic. They are at the same time very fast, offensively powerful, and Blatt also pointed out that they will be physically very strong and athletic.
They kept Wilbekin and good Turkish youngsters, while Kidd, Cummings,Sant-Ross, Johnson, Bell and Eric might not be well known, but Blatt fit them in great and we will see a much more dangerous Darussafaka than last year.