On paper, a match-up against the second seeds and BBL Trophy winners that requires them to win at least one game on the road would make Sheffield Sharks underdogs in their British Basketball League play-off semi-final with Cheshire Phoenix.
Sheffield Sharks head to lowly Manchester Giants on Easter Monday for the first of back-to-back road games against their cross-Pennine rivals knowing there is no margin for error in their pursuit of fourth place.
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