Maccabi, Panathinaikos and Siena on Final 4
After Game 4, we already have three teams who will compete at Final four in Barcelona, May 6-8.
Maccabi Electra, Panathinaikos and Montepaschi Siena qualified to Final 4. Real Madrid and Power Electronics Valencia will play game 5 to decide which team will be the last contestant for final four.
Maccabi beat Caja Laboral 99:77, Panathinaikos beat Regal Barcelona 78:67 and Montepaschi Siena beat Olympiacos 88:76.
The funny thing is that Regal Barcelona will not play at Final four in their town. Congrats to Panathinaikos to beat Regal Barcelona. I am so glad that Coach Zeljko Obradovic and his team will play in Barcelona instead of Regal Barcelona.
Another funny thing is that I have finally reached 100% in betting predictions. I predicted all those results of Game 4, and now I am sorry that I didn’t invest some money in betting 🙂
Hopefully Coach Svetislav Pesic and his team Power Electronics Valencia will find a way to beat Real Madrid in game 5. They played very good tonight, they fixed some problems from last game and that was the key.
Olympiacos really pissed me off. From the beginning I believed that they will qualify to Final 4, but Coach Pianigiani and his team proved through last 4 games (if we forgot the first one) that with good team spirit, fighting to the end they can beat anyone. Actually, I am very disappointed with Coach Dusan Ivkovic and his strategy in this match-up. After Game 1 and terrible loss for Montepaschi Siena, somehow I believe that all players including Coach Ivkovic believed that it will be “piece of cake”. I just don’t understand that Ivkovic didn’t get any messages from Game 2 and 3, to change strategy, to get new ideas and try to find solutions to beat Siena. Maybe he is too old, we will see.