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    BCL Fantasy Tips: Never a bad time to pick Giorgi Shermadini

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    The new-look BCL Fantasy game on a mobile app is available to download now, as your perfect companion to the 2024-25 season!

    MIES (Switzerland) - The official Basketball Champions League Fantasy game is available to all for the second straight season, thanks to the Scorestars mobile app.

    The new app brings a lot of improvements and new features: All players are available to every user, and there's more tactical gameplay and more daily manager missions.

    There is also a new in-app currency called basketballs, the possibility to improve your team's players, collect daily rewards, and progress in divisions throughout the season. By default, you get to spend 55 efficiency points on your five starters. Here to help you with the selection are our Fantasy Tips.

    THE ROUND OF 16 IS SHERMADINI'S TIME TO SHINE

    La Laguna Tenerife's head coach Txus Vidorreta has clearly been managing Giorgi Shermadini's minutes to keep him fresh this season. The Georgian giant has averaged just 16.7 minutes and as a result, whilst his production per minute has remained excellent, you can still pick him up for just 11.7 efficiency points.

    Tenerife are flying right now and have put the extra energy saved from avoiding the Play-Ins to good use. Since that comfy 92-73 win over Kolossos H Hotels on the final day of the Group Phase, Marcelinho Huertas and the gang have reeled off six wins and only one loss, to Real Madrid.

    The most recent triumph being a high-pressure derby match with Gran Canaria on Sunday, January 26. In that run, we have started to see Giorgi Shermadini start to look like he is in Play-Offs mode already.

    Against Girona, the Sherminator put up 24 points and 11 rebounds in just 18 minutes, missing only one shot in the process.

    If we go back to Gameday 1 of last season's Round of 16, Shermadini was also in scorching form on that day too. Tenerife took on an old rival in Pinar Karsiyaka in Türkiye on January 23, 2024 - 25 points, 9 rebounds, and 5 assists from Shermadini helped steer Tenerife to a 106-97 win and stamped their authority on the group.

    No doubt Shermadini will be looking to make an equally dominant start to Group K against Pallacanestro Reggiana this week.

    Shermadini's season averages are just 9.2 points, 2.7 rebounds, and 1.0 assist from 16.7 minutes, but given that he only played limited minutes in his last two games in the Spanish Liga Endesa and still kept his production levels high, it could be the perfect time to pick up Shermadini whilst he doesn't cost you too much in terms of efficiency points.

    A fresh and firing all-time scoring leader in the BCL looking to make a dominant start to the Round of 16 might be exactly what you need to help you get a better chance of promotion through divisions or even better, get the bragging rights in your group of other BCL Fantasy game contestants.

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