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Round 11

Ready to fight

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     Round 10 was a rough landing for our team. After 4 successful Rounds, we experienced a tough one where we collected only 134.25 points and lost 0.7 credits. As the Round before, all player trades were proven wrong and only the coach selection was a successful one giving us the desired 25 points. But there is no time of thinking what we could have done differently. Round 11 is here and we should return to above 170 points performances.

For this Round, choosing a coach has been proven a difficult task. There is no clear candidate that can offer us a 20 or plus performance. Therefore, we decided not to invest a lot for this Round and choose the coach of Panionios, Ilias ZOUROS (4.0 CR). Panionios is experiencing a catastrophic year but last Round showed that it was able to make his first away win with Chemnitz. This Round, Panionios is hosting Ulm and we think it is about time to win at home, even with not a big difference securing at least 10 points for our team.

Regarding the players, it is clear that we need to invest in the Center position. ALEXANDER has some internal competition and he is hardly playing more than 20’. He is also not in his best form so its time to trade him for another option. Additionally, KOKILA once again left us down in the previous Round. Maybe we are biased due to his performances last year so we think he will return in high scoring performance. But we can not afford having him anymore in our team. The third player that we are going to trade is BENITEZ. Last Round was not good and he seems in doubtful for the next match. No need to take any risks here.

The first Center that we have selected is Egidijus MOCKEVICIOUS (8.0 CR). He has recently joined Neptunas and in his first two Eurocup games he was scoring way more than his cost while he is playing for more than 25’. This Round, he is playing against U-BT Cluj Napoca which is having hard time defending in Center position. MOCKEVICIOUS is playing in Turn 2 so we definitely need a Center from the first day of the games. As we have enough budget to basically buy whoever we like, we selected Kevin YEBO (15.1 CR). His score is almost always double digit and he is the main Center of his team. He has been relatively quiet in the last few Rounds, while he has a very high ceiling in case he is in a good night.

The fourth trade is in Guard position. We decided to trust our instinct and taste by selecting Arnas VELICKA (12.7 CR). The main Point Guard of Neptunas has been hot lately and for sure a lot of balls will pass from his hands. In the first game between Neptunas and Cluj Napoca he has achieved his season high (26 PIR).

HARPER will remain our captain for Turn 1, while FLYNN stands ready for Turn 2 if needed. We decided not to trade FLYNN this Round as Venice is vulnerable in defending Guard position. its a risk as FLYNN looks to have tough time even in the Turkish Championship games but we still hope that he can achieve a high score.

Our team for this round look like this: