Dubai Basketball vs Olympiacos Piraeus Prediction, Odds, Best Bets - Round 11

Sasha Vezenkov leads Olympiacos at 19.1 points per game, Evan Fournier is back, and Dubai travel to Greece without four rotation players despite their 7-3 start.

The Matchup

Dubai's first season keeps passing its tests, and Thursday brings the hardest road exam so far: Olympiacos, Sasha Vezenkov, and a Greek crowd. Dubai sit 7-3 and just won by 18 in Bologna, but Olympiacos are 7-3 themselves and get a key guard back, even as their own backcourt remains short-handed. The visitors have been fearless all season; this is where fearlessness meets the league's most complete frontcourt.

Key Factors

Sasha Vezenkov leads Olympiacos at 19.1 points per game and adds 6.0 rebounds, and everything Olympiacos run bends toward him. Dubai's answer is depth: Dwayne Bacon averages 16.3 points per game and Mfiondu Kabengele adds 14.6 points and 7.8 rebounds for a team scoring 88.0 per game.

Olympiacos score 84.7 and allow 80.1, and their Round 10 stumble, a 62-57 home loss to Crvena Zvezda, showed how much they miss Jean Montero, who is out for six months after knee surgery. Tyler Dorsey is also out, sidelined by a club decision until late November. Evan Fournier is available again for Olympiacos after missing three weeks, which eases the backcourt strain, and Kostas Papanikolaou is out with an abdominal tendon problem.

Dubai travel without four rotation players: Thomas Walkup, Mouhammadou Jaiteh, Kenan Kamenjas and Nemanja Dangubic are all out, and Justin Anderson did not feature either. Dubai still won 93-75 at Virtus Bologna in Round 10, so the absences have not slowed them yet, but their bench shortens considerably against an Olympiacos frontcourt of Vezenkov and Nikola Milutinov.

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