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      This week, for our planning we will start with the position of coach. As always we are trying to recruit a coach which we are sure that is going to win and if possible from the lowest ranking as a win will also be translated as increase in credits.

The obvious choice is for this round is the coach of Valencia Pedro MARTINEZ (11.8 credits). Valencia appears to be one of - if not THE strongest contender of this year's tournament and Aris has already been disqualified while the organization is starting to shift  focus towards the Greek League. An alternative is Dusan ALIMPIJEVIC (6.7 credits) for the obvious reason that Besiktas must win this game against the weakest team of this group. However, there are some doubts mainly because the polish teams seems more competitive in the last two rounds while Besiktas was a bit lucky to win the game against Wolves as they were behind for more than 3 quarters. Since our budget is big enough, we will go for the more secured option, MARTINEZ.

For our substitutions , we noticed that all our players are playing the second turn, although there are 3 games in T1. So we will try to pick up some players from T1. We will change BOUTEILLE who has a difficult game against Hapoel Tel Aviv, CASTANEDA who has reached the top of his value and BLAZEVIC who was excellent last week (and it could be better if his coach let him a bit more on the court…). In their positions we selected the following players:

1. Ante TOMIC (15.0 credits) as he is reliable, the other center of Badalona is doubtful and it’s a must game for the Spanish team. Also, Tomic did not perform in the last round so he is a bit cheaper, while our team has nice memories from his participation in our team J. Moreover, Trento has difficulties defend the opponent Centers as currently the opponent centers score the most fantasy points against them.

2. Zavier SIMPSON (16.1 credits) as our budget is sufficient for this kind of move and he is the leader of his team. In the first round he has performed exceptionally and we hope for similar performance against Turk Telecom who is suffering against opponent Guards.

3. Berkan DURMAZ (5.9 credits) as he seems to be value for money and he is overperforming during last games as Angola is out. Also his playing time has been increased.

As previously said, for us having players from Turn 1 was a priority and a driver. Other thoughts were to get rid of Motley as he has limited minutes ~20 for the best center of the league KAMBENGELE (16.9 credits). Also, Noa ESSENGUE (10 credits) would be great addition as he is still very efficient and we have wrongly removed him the previous round as he was signed as doubtful. In the end he had 19 PIR. JOHNSON (11.3 credits) remains a player that could be a nice addition to our team. Finally, it may worth the betting on a Guard from Hamburg. IVEY (9.1 credits) or STOVE (9.8 credits) could have the opportunity to score high against the worst guard defense of the league. Even, OGBE (5.8 credits) who has increased his minutes and his performance in the last rounds look tempting.

 Good Luck to all and always remember: trust yourselves instead of some random internet website right? Have fun

Signed: Mid-range maven