HEBA - Olympiacos v Panathinaikos

27 May 2008

Preview By Tipster ElCapitan

Handicap -1.5 : +1.5

Olympiakos Vs Panathinaikos game 2. This must be out of the 2-3 biggest basketball rivalries in Europe not to say the biggest one. Special police forces accompany the teams on their way to the stadium. They build special projects (as they did for game 2) for the players in order to enter the court safe etc etc. To make a long story short when those two meet in any competition there is a literally polemic atmosphere surrounding the games.

I do believe that tomorrow Olympiakos will win otherwise they will be swiped and the finals will finish in game 3. No I do not believe that Olympiakos has a better team or better players than Panathinaikos. Therefore I am not going to spend anytime talking about players or plays of either team. Only one thing for any of you, who watched the 1st game, Olympiakoâ€™s coach P. Giannakis, if you noticed, gave up his conservative method of running the team thus allowing his players to deploy their offensive qualities. As a result which came with no surprise to me this frustrated Panathinaikos and gave them a hard time to crack the weaker olympiakos in game 1.

I am pretty positive that olympiakos will score more than 80 points in their home court for game 2 as they have a quite good offense and they will manage to dominate the court in both ends... and hopefully this will give them at least on victory over their lifelong rival.