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Agrigento are one of the best five teams of the second league defensively. Treviso are the best defensive in the third league. I'll admit, the second and the third league are not the same level, but what's important is that the Treviso are defensively oriented. They won't become offensive all of a sudden, and start running. It's the opposite, they'll become even more defensive against a stronger opponent. Like they did against Ferentino in the Cup quarterfinal. Ferentino are stronger than Agrigento offensively, and Treviso limited them to 68 points. The match ended at a bit over 130. Both camps are aware of this match's important, especially for the home team because they're expected to pass. The failure in the first match would push them to the edge of being eliminated. Agrigento played a match similar to this one (it was important for the playoff) against Mantova, about 10 days ago at home. It ended at 133 points, and with a blowout (79-54 win). Details

Nadal has been looking for pretexts ahead of every tournament this season. He started sounding like someone who is considered to be the best clay court player ever only last week. Yes, he struggled with Isner, missed to get the service game for the match against Ferrer and then lost a set. His game against Djokovic was progress as well. For the first time this season ahead of coming to Barcelona, Nadal seemed optimistic, which is extremely important for him because his crisis was the result of lack of confidence. That is getting better now, and I'm also happy with what I saw against Almagro. That was the old Nadal there. The match went on for 100 minutes while Almagro won only one more game after 3-3 in the first set. I know this intro was long but it was necessary to explain that Nadal from the first part of the season (South America) has nothing to do with Nadal here. He played extremely badly there, you only need to take a look at his results. Those were the weeks in which Nadal was not happy even after winning. If you saw him back then and in the last 10 days, you know what I'm talking about. I'm sure that Fognini from Rio would be limited to one a few games today despite winning back then. Fognini is now not as good as back then, he beat only Janowicz after that tournament and the Pole was injured. The Italian opened with a win over the young Rublev but the Russian had 6-3, 2-0 lead at one point. Fognini won only a thrid of his second match points in the first two sets but luckily for him, Rublev couldn't physically handle two tough matches in only two days. I would like to take a look back at some other Nadal-Fognini matches. The Italian got a set in Beijing two years ago but it's well known that Nadal declines physically after US Open. The match at Roland Garross was close but I don't think Fognini can do better than that. He was really impressive but still couldn't get a set. To sum up, Nadal is getting better and has won 8 titles here. As bad as he might have been in the last months, he is always good here and is against this year. Fognini, on the other hand, after the win over Nadal has 2-6 record. He lost a set to young Rublev yesterday and won only a third of his second serve points in the first two sets. He's in decline while Nadal started making progress in Monte Carlo and is now at his best this season. Details

DeAndre Jordan is definitely not the man the Clippers expect a lot from on the offensive end, other than when it comes to the dirty work (blocks, rebounds) but whether they like it or not, they will depend on Jordan's capability of putting the ball in the rim will in this series. You all probably know that his skills as a center are non-existent but luckily for him, he's playing alongside a master like Chris Paul, who enables him to get many free slam dunks that lead Jordan into finishing regular season with an average of 11.5 points and 71,0 shooting from the floor. His weakest point are free throws, in which he has 39.7%. The Spurs use it and aren't shy to send him on the free throw line if things start going downhill. Jordan had 28 free throws against the Spurs mid-February and used only 10. But he had 8-for-10 from the floor to finish with 26 points. Something like that should happen have happened in Game 1 of this series and it kind of did but only because coach Poppovic gave up when realizing his players' aim is totally off. Jordan had 9 points in 38 minutes (2-for-5 from the floor) and had 12 free throws, only 5 of which he used. Since the Spurs lost Game 1, I'm pretty sure that the Clippers center will be faced with his worst night mare a lot as the Spurs try to force the most efficient offense in the league into losing rhythm. My reason for this bet is not only the Hack-a-Jordan strategy. He finished the regular season with 10 overs in the last 12 games. Germania offers a point lower margin, and you an find at 11.5 with Marathon as well. Details