Kuban vs Emilia

Semifinals Eurocup will be held this week and will affect the next, if you need a third game. Lokomotiv Kuban(庫班火車頭,库班火车头) remained the only representative of Russia at this stage.

The Italian club becomes a harbinger of bad news for Russian teams in the Eurocup. In the group stage, Reggio Emilia twice beat UNICS, and it almost cost the Kazan team a hit in the playoffs.

Lokomotiv Kuban and Reggio Emilia play roughly the same basketball. Extremely tough defense, especially in its three-second zone, is not the most speedy attack, an attempt to wrest all physical forces from the opponent.

The bookmakers gave a head start (-9.5) points for Lokomotiv Kuban for equal coefficients. Now the quotes have sharply taken the start for raising the odds of the Krasnodar team, and it's no longer profitable to play them. Reggio Emilia is not just reached the semi-finals to throw a white flag in Krasnodar after the starting whistle.

Lokomotiv Kuban only twice in this Euroseason allowed on its floor opponents to score more than 70 points the defense of the Krasnodar club will be on top.

Anyway I expect more than 147 point scored here because the two team has almost the same socred points in their last 10 games - 80. Game points average for Lokomotiv Kuban is 153, and for Reggio Emilia is 158. Well in this case I think that over 148.5 points in the game should not be a problem for both teams.