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Partizan and Cibona's rivalry dates back to former Yugoslavia, and this will be once again duel of former European Champions. However, times have changed, and both Partizan and Cibona are facing financial problems, that led to some players departure. Since the beginning of the season, Cibona lost Jerel Blassingame, Devon van Oostrum, Damir Markota and Jure Lalic. All of them were essential players in Cibona rotation, and filling their places with only young players will be very hard.
On the other hand, Djordje Gagic left Partizan just recently, but they acquired from Vojvodina another center Bozo Djumic. Although Partizan is often emphasizing the big financial issues, they manage to acquire Milan Macvan, and former NBA player Sasa Pavlovic and alongside with some other experienced players such as Tepic, and rising stars in Milutinov and Marinkovic, Partizan has probably better squad then last year.
Playing at home might help Cibona, especially because team from Serbia is coming, but event with in this case, Drazen Petrovic Basketball Hall
will not be fully packed, and crowd in Zagreb is not the loudest crowd in ABA league, sot they won't be able to affect the final outcome.
I would say that Partizan will be able to win by margin close or even higher than 10 points, but safe bet with decent odd is with handicap 4.5.
Pick: Partizan win (handicap 4.5)
Odds: 1.75
Bookmaker: ➾ Bet365
Stake: 8 units
Tipster: Montecobra
| TIPSTER: Montecobra | Total profit: -11.16 | Tips won: 2 |
| Country: Serbia | Total yield: -27.90% | Tips lost: 3 |
| Speciality: Basketball | Total picks: 5 | Tips pushed: 0 |
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| 15.02 | • Olimija - Buducnost | 1.7 | 7 | ❌ | -7 |
| 14.02 | • Basilashvili N. - Zverev A. | 2.12 | 7 | ✅ | +7.84 |
| 14.02 | • Cibona - Partizan | 1.75 | 8 | ✅ | +6 |
| 05.02 | • Red Star - Zalgiris | 1.88 | 10 | ❌ | -10 |
