Projected line: Russia by 9 points
Russia has a good physical spot for them, as they played very early their last game against China and it was a blowout, so they were able to rest their main players, with Kirilenko playing 31 minutes and everybody else playing less than 30 minutes. It will curious to see the Brazilian P&R plays against the Russian team, who is perhaps the best team in the competition in defending this kind of plays. You need athletic guards and quick frontcourt players to defend well P&R plays and Russia has both.
On the other hand, Brazil has been struggling from the outside with 2-15 and 3-22 3pts in their first two games. Russia has an excellent rotation in their interior defense and I believe Russia will even apply a zone defense at times to explore Brazilian's poor outside shooting. Russia has been in my opinion the best team in group B so far and I believe they will prove that once again, this time with a comfortable win over Brazil. I'll be taking Russia on the spread today.
Pick: 3 units (Single Dime Play) on Russia (-5,5) @ -110 / 1.91 on Bookmaker
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