Georgia managed to advance this round thanks to Ukraine, because they won in last game against Belgium, what gave the right to Georgia to play in this best 12 teams..
They played really good basketball in first 4 games, but against Bulgaria they showed a lot of weakness, and what was most important they lost their best and big man Z.Pachulia with injury.. Pachulia was team leader, and he was heart of the team, he is big booster in team, and have fighting spirit.. Without him I think it will be too hard for Georgia today, because Shermadini who will take place in the Center isn't experienced yet, and is very young.. Other Big man N.Tskitishvili isn't playing in Center position in his club, and he must play there where he never felt good...
Macedonia showed amazing results in group, defeating Greece with solid point difference, and looked very well in other games too.. Their best scorer Bo McCalebb is on fire here and in all games he's scored 17 points or more...
Macedonia have other trump of their big man trio Pero Antic, Predrag Samardzinski and Todor Gecevski are working great under the basket, and it will be too hard to stop them for inexperienced Shermadini..
I think losing Pachulia Georgia have no chance to advance next round, and for me Macedonia will beat them with more than 7 points...
stake: 10/10
picks: Macedonia -6.5 AH
odds: 1.95
bookmaker: ladbrokes
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