basketball | Friday, January 13, 2023 12:31 PM

Partizan Belgrade vs Baskonia Best Bet: Partizan Take Revenge at Home

Aleksa Drobnjak

Partizan Belgrade vs Baskonia Best Bet: Friday, January 13th

One of the most interesting games of the first split of the season was in Vitoria between these two teams. Partizan will be eager to get revenge after letting Baskonia steal the victory from them in the last seconds. The Serbian side is in the best form in the EL right now (with Zalgiris) acquiring 4 wins in the last 5 games.

In this article:

Partizan Belgrade vs Baskonia Preview
Partizan Belgrade vs Baskonia Best Bet

Partizan Belgrade vs Baskonia Preview

Fri, Jan 13th. 18:30 pm (UK time)

The Hot Stark Arena will surely be a motive for the home team and a thing to fear for the visitors. Partizan has been able to acquire some important victories recently but has lost the last game against the favoured Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel. We believe this will not shake things up very much as not many teams are counting on victories in Tel Aviv, and Partizan will be able to continue playing in good form.

This will be a clash of two of the most successful offences so far, as Partizan is averaging 84.5 points per game whilst Baskonia is at 85.5. Regarding the injury sheet, Partizan will have to do without B. Koprivica is out due to an illness.

Baskonia have been the most positive surprise so far in the Euroleague. They managed to put the pieces together and create a very cohesive offence which is ranked 1st in the league overall. Their biggest strength is surely M. Howard, who will be missing tonight’s game and this is the key info we are using tonight. He is not only their best scorer with 16PPG whilst shooting 47% from beyond the arc, but he is the engine of their offence that excels in open court and transition. With Howard on the floor, Baskonia averages 100 possessions per 48 minutes and without him, they average a little above 80.

A fast-paced offence like Partizan will know how to exploit these issues that Baskonia will be facing and we believe they will be able to acquire a comfortable victory in the end.

Partizan Belgrade vs Baskonia Best Bet

We believe the hot Stark Arena will be one of the most important factors tonight for the home team as Baskonia does not have very experienced players. In these situations, very often the atmosphere can dictate the outcome of the game. Besides this, without M. Howard, we believe the quality gap is in Partisan’s favour. We are taking them to cover the spread and be better in the H2H in a potential top8 fight with Baskonia.