Eurocup basketball Darussafaka vs Partizan game review

Partizan will play Turk club Darussafaka away today. 
Game will be held in Ayhan Sahenk arena in Istanbul 
with beginning in 18:15 Central European Time.

Darussafaka was regular participant of Euroleague 
in last few years, when they often faced Red Star 
Belgrade and had success in these games. This 
season they are playing Eurocup and so far in this 
stage they have 1 win against Trento at home and 
1 lose away against Virtus Bologna. In Turk league 
they are on 6th position with 9 wins and 7 loses. 
Turks are well known for good defense and hot 
atmosphere in hall. Not so long ago one Red Star 
fan was killed with machete in Istanbul (not 
against Darussafaka, but other club Galatasaray 
if I remember correct) after fierce fight between 
home and away fans outside the hall. That's why 
Partizan will not bring any supporters on this 
game. Here is rooster of both clubs:

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The best player in home side is Johnathan 
Hamilton 2.13 cm high center who is the best 
in catching rebounds particularly in attack. He 
can also score decent number of points in the 
game. 25 years old will be main target for 
Partizan centers Novica Velickovic, William 
Mosley and new add on to squad James 
Mcadoo. Hamilton and Kosut have advantage 
in height, but Partizan centers particularly two 
Americans can jump high and well known for 
taking rebounds and blocking shoots too. It'll 
be interesting duel under the basket.

Good news for Partizan is returning of play 
maker Nemanja Gordic who missed last game 
in ABA league against FMP in Zeleznik which 
Partizan easily won. Jaramaz, Paige, Zagorac 
and Walden will need good shooting night if 
Partizan thinks to get something from this 
heavy away game. They'll need to do great 
enclose of own basket to prevent Turks from 
offensive jumps and having second or third 
attack after missing. Both teams are pretty 
good in defense and I don't expect high result
in this game.

Eventual winning in Turkey would put 
Partizan with one leg in next stage of 
Eurocup and Trinkieri's men will try to 
grab it for sure. Losing at home in this 
competition is big blow and would 
significantly reduce chance for 
qualification for Darussafaka and they 
will be also very motivated to win this 
game. In case of losing Partizan should 
lose with as low basket margin as it can, 
because they'll probably need to win 
them at home with bigger margin to 
qualify. So every basket will count. 
Beginning of the game is very important, 
because if Partizan start to lose high in 
first quarter it will be very hard to come 
back in this game on this hot away Arena.

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