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World Championship match preview: Spain - New Zealand

Written by: Black-Shadow Published: 28-08 22:02:47

Shocked

Spain obviously isn’t such an obvious powerhouse as everybody expected them to be at this WC. Although they are playing without their by far the best player Pau Gasol and recently injured Calderon, the Spaniards still have a very respectable roster, but they still suffered a huge shock at their WC opener losing against France, which has a lot weaker squad than in the past few years, also being without their key star Tony Parker. The Spaniards controlled the game quite well just to see France literally ‘go wild’ in the 2nd half and taking over the situation, while ‘the Red Fury’ had only few players in the mood, which was insufficient to win the match. This loss might not mean anything for Spain, as they also their first game at the previous EC last year, eventually still taking the gold.

Fighters

New Zealand is a classic team that lacks quality but has got plenty of fighting spirit in their squad, which is their main tool that helps them to make up for their limited abilities at almost all positions in the roster. They are physically strong but simply don’t have enough ‘basketball education’ and very few players that are able to play serious ball. Undoubtedly, Penney is by far their best player, who literally kept his team in play by himself with a little help by Vukona when they faced Lithuania in the first round. However, they dropped in quality quite quickly, already at the start of the 2nd quarter and allowed the Lithuanians to crush them and were never able to come back after that. They shot for three with horrible 16% and generally the bad shot from the field together with poor organization of their plays cost them a loss in this first game of the WC.

Not that efficient

Firstly, this total is quite big. I don’t know the real reason for it as the Spaniards were always able to play tough defense and I am certain they will primarily want to ensure the triumph in this clash, and will secure that by guarding and shutting Penney down, as well as the rest of the opposing players, while on offense they will look to score as much as possible of course. Therefore, I expect them to maybe even reach some 85-90 points but New Zealand definitely can’t score more than 70, if even that. Anyhow, I even expect a bit more defensive and generally more careful game by both sides where I primarily think New Zealand will eventually get demolished but the Spaniards probably won’t ‘explode’ too much but will finish the opponent off with a routine. Thus I am taking the under for high stakes. Good luck.

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Prediction:

Tip: Under 161.5
Odd: 1.95
Bookie: Pinnacle
Stake: 8 /10
Tipster: Black-Shadow

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