Zalgiris Kaunas vs Olimpia Milano Prediction, Odds, Best Bets - Round 11

Milano are 1-9 with one of the league's lowest scoring outputs and a defense allowing 89.6 per game, and Zalgiris arrive at the Unipol Forum off a 16-point road win in Istanbul.

The Matchup

Olimpia Milano's season is slipping away at 1-9, and Thursday brings the wrong visitor at the wrong time: a Zalgiris Kaunas team that defends, travels well, and just won by 16 on the road in Istanbul. Milano's home floor at the Unipol Forum has offered no shelter so far, and with their frontcourt thinned by injury, the question is whether pride and a home crowd can slow a slide that has lasted all season.

Key Factors

Zalgiris score 85.6 points per game and allow 82.3, a profile built on balance rather than one star. Carsen Edwards leads them at 15.3 points per game, and Jonas Valanciunas gives them a genuine interior anchor at 12.1 points and 8.4 rebounds. Milano score 81.1 points per game, one of the lowest outputs in the league, and allow 89.6. They lost 84-78 at Olympiacos in Round 9 and 84-73 at home to Valencia in Round 10.

Milano are without Devin Booker, who tore a tendon in his right thigh and is expected to miss about three months, removing one of their few reliable interior scorers. Zalgiris have an absence of their own: Nigel Williams-Goss is out with a hamstring injury, and he has played only twice this season, so the rotation that won 83-67 at Besiktas in Round 10 is the one that travels to Milan.

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