Spain vs Turkey Prediction: Both teams will show a good game even after making it

Scandals surround Turkey, but it is still a team with a strong roster of players. And Spain, despite all the talk about the reset, is pretty good in the group, although they unexpectedly lost in Belgium.

After their unexpected defeat at the hands of Belgium, the Spaniards found themselves on the fourth line of the group. Although, in general, it does not look like a serious problem so far. Sergio Scariolo's team started the tournament with two wins in a row, with a fantastic victory over Bulgaria (114-87) in the opening match. After that, the tournament hosts had nothing to offer and, again, a very productive match with 90 points and a victory. That's why the defeat of the Belgians was a rather unexpected result.

Right now, after winning the match against Montenegro, it remains to determine the final line in the group. The Spaniards have a fairly even line-up, which has no superstars. There is an experienced Rudy Fernandez, very well played Willy Hernangomez and excellent interaction,. However, the Spanish have not faced at the tournament a team so packed with big names, as the opponent today. So, it will be something interesting.

The team that has something going on all the time. Scandals, fights and Ataman, who blames the tournament organization for all the problems of the Turkish team, attract the attention to each new match even more than the result itself.

But if we get away from all of that, the Turks started with two wins, and if with the Bulgarian team everything came out as expected, Montenegro imposed a very serious fight as a lined-up team. And the victory was narrow, at the expense of enchanting game Korkmaz in the fourth quarter.

Turkey has a lot of star players in the NBA: Korkmaz, Sengun, Osman, Euroleague MVP Larkin, with Ergin Ataman at the helm, who has won two straight Euroleague titles. But, so far, Turkey is only intimidating with the bid, but not with its play.

After its most scandalous game of the tournament against Georgia, though, Turkey had just one of its most confident games yesterday. So now we have a chance to check the spirit in the match against Spain.

Generally, the teams have faced off10 times, dividing in an equal ratio the number of wins and losses by 5. If we take the 2017 EuroBasket, Spain won 73-56. So the balance of power will be broken today.

Both teams have secured their place in the next stage, but considering that playing with Group B, where every opponent is a problem, a higher place will not be too much. Turkey has a lot tied up with the individual skills of its players, Spain will play from the interaction that has been built up. Spain is fourth in the tournament in scoring points per game (89.8), Turkey only tenth (83.5). Still, taking into account Turkey's last game, that's not as important as the individual play of the Ataman stars. Turkey is clearly on the rise and at this point, one might consider them winning as well. Spain is capable of losing in the paint, but whether they have enough power on the perimeter, we will find out very soon. Given all the previous results, we can consider the following bets:

• Handicap Turkey (+4.5) for 1.80;
• W Turkey for 2.58;
• W Turkey for 2.675.