The second day of Eurobasket will be opened by a group D game between Israel and Finland. This is going to be a very competitive and interesting group as there is one clear favorite in Serbia but the other three playoff spots are free - besides those 3 teams in group D plays also the Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic. Before the Eurobasket Israel and Finland are in similar positions but, in my opinion, a little bit better team is Finland.

In the friendly games, Finland lost twice to Lithuania and once to Belgium but had wins against Belgium and Ukraine. In the World Cup qualifiers, Finland got a victory against Estonia and the first game was against Israel. It was a very tight game for almost all 40 minutes but in the 4th quarter, Finland managed to secure a win 79:73. Unstoppable was Lauri Markkanen who scored 28 points and got 9 rebounds for the Finns while in the Israelian squad Roman Sorkin was the leading scorer with 14 points.

Israel had only three friendly games - two wins against Romania (even not the middle-tier team in Europe) and one versus Georgia. In the official games, Isarelians lost to Finland, as mentioned before, and Sweden. Israel has one NBA player and it is Deni Avdija. He should be the undisputed leader of the team but he hasn't shown that kind of level of basketball, scoring only a total of 21 points last week.

In this matchup, I like Finland better. They know the roles, they have a leader in Markkanen who carries his team in every game. Finland also has good players in Petteri Koponen and Sasu Salin. It's going to be hard to stop Markkanen and the outcome should be the same as last week. I'm sure that Finland will win the game and cover the handicap.

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欧洲篮球赛的第二天将以D组以色列对芬兰的比赛拉开序幕。这将是一个非常有竞争力和有趣的小组，因为有一个很受欢迎的塞尔维亚，但其他三个季后赛席位是免费的——除了D组的三支球队，还有荷兰、波兰和捷克共和国。在欧洲篮子之前，以色列和芬兰的位置相似，但在我看来，芬兰稍微好一点。

在友谊赛中，芬兰两次负于立陶宛，一次负于比利时，但分别战胜了比利时和乌克兰。在世界杯预选赛中，芬兰战胜了爱沙尼亚，第一场比赛是以色列。这是一场几乎整个40分钟都非常激烈的比赛，但在第四节，芬兰设法以79:73获胜。不可阻挡的是劳里·马尔卡宁，他为芬兰人砍下28分和9个篮板，而在以色列队中，罗曼·索尔金以14分高居得分手榜首。

以色列只有三场友谊赛——两胜罗马尼亚(甚至不是欧洲的中等球队)，一胜格鲁吉亚。在正式比赛中，伊萨雷里亚人输给了之前提到的芬兰和瑞典。以色列有一个NBA球员，他就是Deni Avdija。他应该是球队无可争议的领袖，但他并没有展现出那种水平的篮球，上周他总共只得到21分。

在这场比赛中，我更喜欢芬兰。他们知道这些角色，他们有一个领导者马尔卡宁，他在每场比赛中都带领着球队。芬兰也有优秀的球员佩特里·科波宁和萨苏·萨林。要阻止马尔卡宁很难，结果应该和上周一样。我相信芬兰会赢得让分盘。