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s.Oliver Wurzburg - Bamberg

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The official opening of the Germany Bundesliga will take place on tonight's evening completely full Wurzburg arena as all tickets are sold out.

Wurzburg after 2016 season comes with changes. 3 key athletes Ulmer, Lane, Odum and head coach Spradley been replaced by sophisticated coach Dirk Bauermann (former Brose Baskets & German National team) in addition with main chiefs Clifford Hammonds and Robin Benzig they cut the deal with Lithuanian basketball school representatives hustler Lipkevicius and all-inclusive Olisevicius (whose shape curve is rising every year). Moreover solid back-court guy Abdul (ex VEF), Richardson (ex Spirou) and Anderson (ex Antwerp) joined team. It's a pity Wurzburg will miss Anderson as he’s still injured, but the overall of GM work during the off-season might push Wurzburg to the next level among Top 8-12 Bundesliga teams.

Brose Baskets is most dominate Germany basketball club in past decade. But this season they kinda have a fresh kickoff that might take a while to adapt. Notable players grew up and lifted their wings to the elite clubs: Causer (Real), Theis (Celtics), Miller (New Orleans), Strelnieks (Olympiacos), Melli (Fenerbahce) - all Final4 or NBA teams. Looks like a new beginning while adding: Hickman (Armani), Rubit (Ulm), Taylor (Bayern), Quincy Miller (Maccabi), Mitrovic (Zvezda), Hackett (Olympiacos). Brose definitely lost some strength under the basket in the front-court. It's likely they will try to focus on stretching the offence while playing futuristic basketball including Miller & Mitrovic, but on the other hand facing strong opponents no one is going to replace Theis and Melli. That’s a less positive point from Brose’s perspective as Wurzburg weak side today is backcourt line. Generally Brose should start slower and even though they will lack team play and talent of previous seasons they still gonna end up as Top 1-3 competitor in Bundesliga.

Now important moment, these changes should come with a cost and it already did during preparation stage. Meanwhile "They are ahead of us. You are already in the competition mode, have already two official games completed. They did not have the problem that they had to do without a national player in the preparation. Therefore, it becomes a hard matter. We have so far been able to provide three training units with the entire squad. What distinguishes us at the moment is the spirit and soul of some players. " - said Andrea Trinchieri (Brose Baskets).

Bringing up the rear Wurzburg already had official competitions in FibaEurope league and is having a huge moral motivation to make it up for lose in Eurchallenge while being supported in a full-house and having a chance to kick ass of most dominate team in Germany of past decades, despite having a 2-3 days rest (that is enough in season start) while Brose should be searching themselves as most top teams been doing in domestic leagues so far.

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Pick: Wurzburg +14.0 @ 1.90 5/10 Pinnacle (by: surrealite)
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