It is a double-round week in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Regular Season, which means there is not much time to make important decisions inbetween Rounds 22 and 23.
As always, it is important to find out which teams play back-to-back home games with a chance to rest a bit more. It is not the decisive factor in the EuroLeague Fantasy Challenge powered by Ardu Prime, but it definitely helps, especially since only two teams, Olympiacos Piraeus and AS Monaco, won on the road in Round 22. FC Barcelona, EA7 Emporio Armani Milan and Valencia Basket play back-to-back home games on Tuesday and Thursday. Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul plays two on the road, but on Tuesday and Friday. Every game matters, and every small advantage is solid gold with just 12 regular season games remaining.
My team, Gancedato, had another solid week. I signed Donatas Motiejunas of Monaco, one of the best players in Round 22. A couple of starters underperformed, but two of my backups players, Josep Puerto of Valencia and Rokas Jokubaitis of Barca, stepped up well. My coach was Sasa Obradovic of Monaco, whose team won by a good margin. All things considered, I had a score of 162.65 fantasy points and went up in the standings to rank 2,284th overall. Generally speaking, I am playing much better than a month ago, and managed to be solid for several weeks. It is now time to reach the Top 2,000 after Round 23.
Three trades are allowed before each round, and you can trade your head coach, too. I am letting Coach Obradovic go and signing Ettore Messina of Milan instead. His team plays at home for the second time in 48 hours and Milan has been doing much better recently, with a deeper roster. I am trading Motejiunas because Monaco plays against Real Madrid and I don't want any center playing against Tavares. I am trading Augustine Rubit of FC Bayern Munich and Nando De Colo of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne simply because they were the two starters that underperformed, and I am happy with my bench players right now.
I am going all-in with Milan in Round 23 and buying Brandon Davies at center. I need a top-class player to make him my team captain on Thursday, and he is my choice. I also bought Darius Thompson of Cazoo Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz because he is seeing extended playing time since Pierria Henry was unavailable, and made the most out of it. Last but not least, I can afford a third potential starter, which will be Dzanan Musa of Real. Musa played well against Monazo without shooting the ball great that night. That is a good sign for a good performance in Round 23.
You can take a look at my team here: