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A duel between the first (Darussafaka) and the second (Gaziantep) defense of last year's regular season. Why are we saying that even though the teams went through a lot of changes over the Summer? Because the same coaches stayed on both benches. Mahmuti in Darussafaka, Zdovc in Gaziantep. Both coaches are more defensively oriented, and they put their teams together in accordance with that. Zdovc managed to keep the excellent defender Calloway, and he will be leading the attacks as well. They have a great offensive player, Rautins, but the rest of the team is more useful defensively than offensively. Gaziantep are also much older, their ideal five are over 150 years old together, and I don't expect those 30-something-year-olds to run like crazy. Darussafaka acquired tall and heavy players over the Summer. Their tall players look impressively, and when you have Dagli, Slaughter, Erden, Savas... in the team, there isn't much transition there. And it's not like Harangody and Bjelica are very fast. In the end, their job is to score from the floor (Redding, Markoisvili, Preldzic, Arslan, Gordon), they are not the classic scorers. These two teams faced each other at the start of the pre-season. Gaziantep won 76-72, but we shouldn't take that match into consideration because the teams were not complete. I don't see them as relevant, but it is significant that their two head-to-head matches last season ended under this margin- The first at 110, the second at 141 points. Both teams oscillated result-wise during the pre-season, there were some overs and unders on this margin, but the main arguments here (slower pace, defensively oriented coaches, good defenses) are pulling towards the under.