With the following match ups to come tonight, there is still plenty of fire in the second game day of the Euroleague Top 16. Tonight’s games will bring us Maccabi at Zalgiris, Unicaja Malaga at Lottomatica Roma and Olympiakos at Madrid.
Each game has its own story that makes the games really interesting and especially important for some teams. Will Maccabi have a chance without the injured Fizer and Vujcic? What will happen in Madrid with Olympiakos? Can Lottomatica win at home against another “Final Four” team?
If you follow tonights’ games anyway, you might want to come back to BallinEurope around 20.30 to check out our LIVE Blog from the “Palalottomatica” where we will cover the game of Unicaja Malaga against Roma.
Lottomatica Roma center Erazem Lorbek explains, why this game is important for Roma: “This game is very important because it is our first Top 16 game at home and we want to do well. It is important to win. We will be facing a strong team but then again, as all Top 16 teams are. We have to seek for game control during the 40 minutes. We will have to play good defense to be able to stop their strengths.”
To make this game day more exciting for myself, I ll post my predictions: Zalgiris wins by 12, Madrid wins by 15 and Roma will win against Unicaja by 4.
This should be fun… what does the winner get?
Zalgiris +8
R. Madrid +12
Roma +7
Hi..
I’m new her…
I just want to bring you my picks for tonight. and hear your comments, because i’m not that sure about the Maccabi game…
I think that maccabi will win despite their injuries.
Madrid is a sure win
And I also believe that Roma can do it home!
I’m looking forward to your replys…
to be more interesting,
Maccabi +4
Real + 8
Unicaja +5
Zalgiris +18
Olympiacos +2
Roma +12
Who wins? Probably me, since I’ll get to see some good basketball today.
Zalgiris +3
Fizer and Vujcic are my favorite Maccabi players, I can’t see them winning without them. Still an overall good team, I’m expecting a close match.
Real +16
Greek teams are really not perfoming well these days and the one perfoming worse of them all compared to initial expectations is Olympiakos. I can’t see how they could beat a primary contender for a F4 spot.
Unicaja +11
Can’t say I’ve been following Roma’s progress, but Unicaja is a big team. They should be able to win comfortably.
Zalgiris +5
Real +12
Roma +9
@DK; they play without Vujčič almost all season and playing well, and last week they beat Olympiacos without both of them.
Rock: Zalgiris isn’t that kind of the team as Olympiacos is
David Blumenthal can’t stop anyone on the defensive end on and is ineffective against good competition on the offensive end and I never understood why David Blumenthal didn’t get cut
I think I win… I was 14 points wrong…
Hrr. Me 16 pts wrong
16 points also
We should do this every week now 
– I ll think of a price maybe
I’ve seen this game in a Russian basketball forum, they do it for all Euroleague games since the start of the season, it is very interesting… everyone who posted had 14-19 very close I have to say, does this mean the Euroleague is so predictable?