Weekly preview: Sigal Prishtina and Peja meet in the derby of Kosovo

Four games are awaiting us this week in EUROHOLD Balkan League. The action starts today in Macedonia and it will also finish there in two days.     First KK Kumanovo 2009 will host the champions BC Galil Gilboa. This will be the 5th straight home game for the Macedonians that so far have a 3-1 record. They will undoubtedly try to win once again as this opponent was beaten last year at home as well. The hosts have the two top scorers in the tournament - Ivan Miskovic and Vukasin Mandic, and in the same time they receive help by Royce Parran. Their play will be key to the team as it will look to make its supporters, that will fill the gym, happy. Galil is coming to this match knowing that they have one more in two days. That though surely won′t be a problem for them as more importantly the team has to come back to winning ways after losing to Levski last week.     Tomorrow another very interesting is awaiting us. There will be the derby of Kosovo as Sigal Prishtina is hosting Peja. Both teams are debutants in the competition as so far Sigal has showed very good things. The team is led by Dardan Berisha, Kendrick Jones and Tay Waller as on the other side there are Fred House, George Odufuwa and newly signed Teo Simovic. Both teams have good players and we should expect a great atmosphere in the gym as well.     The first game on Thursday sees BC Balkan hosting SCM U Craiova in its debuting home match of the season. The team from Botevgrad has 1-3 record so far and now by starting to play at home, has the chance to move up in the league. Ivan Lilov and Pavel Marinov have to be the go to gyus as they are facing a very experienced squad. Rade Dzambic and Bogdan Popescu are key for the experience of Craiova as LeVar Seals, Nemanja Maric and Travis Bureau can also provide a lot .     The last match of the week sees KK Kozuv hosting BC Galil Gilboa. This will be second away game in Macedonia in just two days for the visitors and a lot depends on the outcome of the first. The Israeli team will face a tough task as the likes of Igor Mijalovic, Miladin Pekovic and the rest of the Kozuv team have the ability to score a lot and make things difficult for every opponent. Galil will rely on its local players like Nimrod Tishman and Amit Simchon but more importantly guys like DeShawn Sims, Stu Douglas, Rick Jackson and Gerald Robinson need to step up.