Vreston's European Basketball thread

[Vreston]

Man, I'm sorry for not answering, but I've been working and out all day. I didn't have time to make any plays today. I made one yesterday for today, but as you can see yesterday was not my day!
Anyway I didn't even see the line for the Bilbao game. I wonder what it was. If you saw it, let me know just so I know out of curiosity. Bilbao turned out to be a winner!

[Vreston]

There are some more playoff games in Europe today and I decided to make some picks. Yesterday would've been a great day if I'd posted all the games I was thinking about. I really hope that my plays today hit. The playoffs can be quite unpredictable, but I think these plays have a good chance.

Basketball - French Pro A
Semi Finals Game 2
Asvel Lyon-Villeurbanne - Nancy: Pick: Under 166.5 @ 1.90 - Loss (91-79)

Asvel Lyon-Villeurbanne - Nancy: Pick: Nancy +5 @ 1.90 - Loss (91-79)

I took the total here because the last game between these two ended at 202 points. In their last six meetings the highest score between them was 153 points. I think the last game was just one of those things. Thus the line is probably inflated. I don't remember exactly what the line in their last game was though, but I'll take my chances. Also I believe Nancy to be the better team.


German Bundesliga
Semi Finals Game 5
Deutsche Bank Skyliners - Alba Berlin: Pick: Skyliners (Frankfurt) -1.5 @ 1.90 - Loss (68-87)

This has been an up and down series. It's tied at 2-2 with both teams losing both games at home. Come on! Frankfurt was given 8.5 points in their last game and won outright by 9. Today I think they will finish this series. Alba of course is a good team with a lot of talent, but I think Frankfurt will cover.

Well after a great run I went cold yesterday. It was bound to happen I guess.
Anyway, in yesterday's French game I was extremely upset by losing that under.
Also today Frankfurt had a terrible first quarter and never managed to come back.

I made these plays yesterday even though one (the German game) was for today. I didn't have time to make any plays today.

[Vreston]

I haven't posted any plays lately because I haven't had the chance, but still maybe it was better since my last post! Though there were some good plays these last few days that I didn't take advantage of, but then again there were others that I thought were good and ended up not being that way.

Anyway for today I like the following:

Spanish ACB: Finals Game 1

Barcelona-Bilbao
Pick: Bilbao +12.5 @ 1.90


Barcelona-Bilbao
Pick: Under 145 @ 1.90


Barcelona is the powerhouse in Spain I know, but Bilbao has been good to me this year and has been really hot lately. It's obvious from their performance in the playoffs this year. Logically Barcelona should win this one, but I'm counting on Bilbao to stay within the number.
The Bilbao players are playing for their satisfaction because they have already done much better this year than anyone had expected. Advancing to the finals is almost like winning them so they should be free of stress. This usually means a team plays better.
Also both teams are pretty well known for their tough defences which is the reason I'm going with the under here as well. Now if they come out and start sinking 3's then I can't help that. Hopefully they won't and keep it under.


Turkish League Division 1: Finals Game 3

Galatasaray-Fenerbahce
Pick: Fenerbahce -4 @ 1.83
(This line is being given by bet365 without buying points).

Fener has beaten Galatasaray by 21 and 22 points in their last two games at home. Now they will be traveling to Galatasaray, but still I think that Fener is a much better team and that even though they will be playing away from home they will show their quality and both win and cover.

[Vreston]

I haven't posted any plays lately because I haven't had the chance, but still maybe it was better since my last post! Though there were some good plays these last few days that I didn't take advantage of, but then again there were others that I thought were good and ended up not being that way.

Anyway for today I like the following:

Spanish ACB: Finals Game 1

Barcelona-Bilbao
Pick: Bilbao +12.5 @ 1.90 - Won (74-64)


Barcelona-Bilbao
Pick: Under 145 @ 1.90 - Won (74-64)


Barcelona is the powerhouse in Spain I know, but Bilbao has been good to me this year and has been really hot lately. It's obvious from their performance in the playoffs this year. Logically Barcelona should win this one, but I'm counting on Bilbao to stay within the number.
The Bilbao players are playing for their satisfaction because they have already done much better this year than anyone had expected. Advancing to the finals is almost like winning them so they should be free of stress. This usually means a team plays better.
Also both teams are pretty well known for their tough defences which is the reason I'm going with the under here as well. Now if they come out and start sinking 3's then I can't help that. Hopefully they won't and keep it under.


Turkish League Division 1: Finals Game 3

Galatasaray-Fenerbahce
Pick: Fenerbahce -4 @ 1.83 - Loss (97-93)
(This line is being given by bet365 without buying points).

Fener has beaten Galatasaray by 21 and 22 points in their last two games at home. Now they will be traveling to Galatasaray, but still I think that Fener is a much better team and that even though they will be playing away from home they will show their quality and both win and cover.

2-1 today having lost the Galata-Fener game in overtime! Fener was losing in a close game, but came back in the 4th quarter to take the game to overtime where unfortunately they lost.

Bilbao came through for me once again! They didn't have a chance to win as Barcelona pulled away in the 3rd quarter. Bilbao came back in the 4th quarter though outscoring Barcelona 24-10 to take the difference down to 10 and covering. I don't know what the line will be for their next game, but I'm really curious to find out.

Take care everybody!

[Vreston]

I went through my thread and counted all my wins and losses since I started it.

My final record is:

Won: 50
Loss: 35

I really would have liked to have had more time to study and post my picks, but that's the way it is. Hopefully next year I'll have more free time to do it. I started this thread at the beginning of the new year well into the European Basketball season.
During the summer there will be the men's Eurobasket going on at a National Team level so if I have any picks I'll either post them in this thread and update my record or I'll start a new thread for it.

Have a great summer!

[big cheyo]

do you have a record with the amount of units won?

[Vreston]

In reply to what you asked me about units won, below is a post by somebody that I answered about the same thing.

Hi Vreston,

What is your results so far since you started this thread? I mean how many units plus or minus? I didn´t find that anywere. You know like sweetjones55 keep a record of his plays and the results.

Would appriciate if you could inform all of us visiting this thread with a write up record so far since the start of this thread.

Thanks.

I haven't checked my win-loss record yet. I thought I'd do it at the end of the European Basketball seasons in the different leagues so it could be final. So far I think it's been pretty good.
Also I've never posted units next to my plays. Mainly because I don't want to affect people in a negative way. Lets say someone feels like following one of my plays and I put more units than the usual next to it and it doesn't win. Then that person will have lost more money than he would have if he hadn't followed my units. I wouldn't want that to happen. So what matters is that hopefully I have more wins than losses at the end of this season.
Also if I post a play, then I like it pretty much the same as all the others I've posted. Of course there are times when I go heavier on a play. I wish those heavy ones would all hit!

I thought it would be better that way.