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Eurobasket2017 Final: Slovenia - Serbia

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It all comes down to the last Sunday night's big final where both Slovenia and Serbia are looking to add a gratifying chapter to their basketball history.

For such a small nation Slovenia who never been tasting of any purity medals in their independent country history it's already wonderful life moment as fans are flooding Istambul. Even though Serbian's been successfull during the past championships, they could hardly remember their last fortunate Eurobasket as it was 8 years ago.

This game is a lot controversial and I honestly could describe any team as a winner here and who can't deny that they aren't...? No one expected to see Slovenians who always lacked succes during most important games or Serbians with their almost 2nd squad here in Eurobasket finals.

Should we bet here or just enjoy? Well it's really up to everyone's. But I see some value I want to try: winning margin 3 way - any other result (any team must win more than 6 points).

We are all familiar with common phrase in sports "the real final was in semi's" I would say that the real one was in quarter-final's. Slovenia vs. Latvia - the most epic game in 21st century's Eurobasket. The futurism of basketball. Slovenia vs. Spain, yes could be looking from a fan's perspective, but Spain was poor on both - energy level and shooting performance from behind the arc. Moreover Serbia plays very static, but smart, uses many plays and runs their offense positionly. Any sports enthusiast who is not very keen into game aesthetics (that's majority) would admit that Serbia vs. Italy wasn't that eye-catchy and semi's could only be exclude for Shved and Bogdanovic remarkable performances, but that wasn't anything like a final.

Why I'm talking about real final here?

Well, since basketball became much more effectively scoring game than staying behind halftime total limits it was already 1961 in Eurobasket tournament. After all there has been 27 finals played and the stats of making into 6.5 spread are curious: 22/27 (81.48%). 5 - is the number of real final games (with under 6.5 margin) that been played in last 27 Eurobasket finals. 1971, 1987, 1993, 1995, 2007.

Alternative game propositions:
Luka Doncic under 15.5 @ 1.83 Bet365 (or your local)
Goran Dragic over 21.5 @ 1.85 betsafe (or your local)

Pick option:
Any other result (Winning Margin 3-Way) @ 2.540 3/10 bet365 (by: surrealite)
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