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Mons are currently in the second position, the one they have been going after all along in order to avoid Oostende, who secured the top starting position a while back, in the play-off for as long as possible. The home team need points more and it is hard to believe that they would give up on their game style, based on aggressive defense, slower 5-on-5 basketball. They scored a lot of points in the last round, but that was against Antwerp who don't really play defense. Before that, against Okapi's fast team they played a 40-minute game at 146 points, before that they played against Limburg on today's margin, and Limburg's style is well known. Their clashes against defensively better teams often finished on low numbers. The four games against Spirou finished at 140 points or less. Oostende is, defensively, the best team in the League, Mons is right behind them. On average at home, Mons scores 76, but concedes less than 70 points, while Oostende concedes 71.5 on average in away games. These two teams played 20 head-to-head games in the last five seasons, and they went over 150 points on only two occasions. In five of their head-to-head games this season, they went over that once, but the results in two games in Mons were 59-72 and 56-66. Oostende are having some injury problems, they are still getting some newly-acquired players working with the rest of the team, and they are having a hard time in games against defensively stroger teams, even though they have secured the top spot.