Africa Basketball League (BAL)

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15/04/2022 23:00 CET
Zamalek - Petro De Luanda over 155.5
1.83 (bet365)
5/10

At last! For the third round of the Nile conference, the bookmakers dared to open the odds after scoring a small result base, because all previous matches were not to be bet on.

Zamalek versus Petro De Luanda, so the match for 1st place in this conference and the highest level of basketball in Africa. In fact, the match of the Angola national team (Petro) versus the set of the best CVs in this competition, i.e. Zamalek - Ike Diogu (225 matches in the NBA), DJ Strawberry, Edgar Sosa.

For me, the most important thing in this bet is that both teams show good attack level and quality, plus they play very fast, and their main target is to attack quickly and shoot for three. Diogu, Sosa and Strawberry have been great shooters for three shoots. Diogu and Sosa still play well in attack. Strawberry can see that the downhill ride is total, but if they leave him free on good three shoot, it may be punishing. Petro has a great attacking player Carlos Morais, the legend of Angola and basketball on this continent. In addition, the contract was recently signed by the best player from Angola - Yanick Moreira, who in the 2020/21 season was scoring an average of 13.0 points per game for AEK Athens.

After the results here, it is difficult for bookmakers to set the odds well, because both teams easily pacified their opponents and such Luanda has played sparring games so far, and mainly the players could rest a lot. Today will be a challenge for both clubs and I expect a nice offensive match.

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18/04/2022 19:30 CET
Petro De Luanda - Espoir Fukash over 159.5
1.83 (bet365)
5/10

Fukash plays an incredibly fast basketball and it's basically halving the ball as quickly as possible and then shooting it as quickly as possible. 101:92 with Zamalek, who played back to back game, and their best scorer Edgar Sosa was rest all game in bench. Petro played the first two matches very fast, they pressed Cobra with full pressing, which will not surprise me how they will be doing today against Fukash. I expect a mega pace here, and Petro should score a lot them strongly under the basket. Fukash will be shooting his shoots in the first seconds and the line is quite low considering there should be 190-200 shoots from game and free throws.

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25/05/2022 18:00 CET
Petro De Luanda (-10.5) - FAP
1.83 (bet365)
5/10

Both teams played in the group stage and it was 73:60 for Petro. In general, the match was one-sided and Petro was still leading with a high result. Previously, I recommended the REG handicap bet with FAP. It turned out that the main playmaker Adonis Filer and Ndoye, from the French league, were playing with injuries. Filer played 10 minutes and Ndoye went in twice only at his own request, but he came out away because he was unable to play and did only one rebound.

FAP defeated the team heavily broken by injuries, and now they are facing strong, better and better teamwork and stronger Petro, where they smashed AS Sale in great style, including Ousmane Drame from Zastal. FAP has much weaker players than Drame.

25/05/2022 21:30 CET
Zamalek - Monastir
2.10 (bet365)
5/10

Zamalek will play without Ike Diogu (27.4 MPG, 12.8 PPG, 6.8 RPG). This is a huge loss because Diogu is an African basketball star and he is great in attack. Zamalek was a terrible loss in his league this season, where they got 3-0 in the semi-finals. So far, they are saved by the BAL tournament, where they played well, but against SLAC they came out poorly, because the opponent was weak and weakened. Monastir broke Cape Town in great style, and Michael Dixon, who was supposed to be King Szczecin's pre-season playmaker, came totally out of shape, he showed now that he had rebuilt and entered a higher level.

Monastir won the Tunisian championship and they had a lot of league games and time to get together. They look stronger to me and in the absence of Diogu, they are the favorite of the game for me.