President of CSKA Andrey Vatutin in an interview with , he appreciated the Macedonian specialist very much Emile Raikovitch which the team has not lost since the start of the season.
Emil Rajkovic, 44, took charge of CSKA in June 2022. Before that, he coached Avtodor and the Kazakhstan national team.
The winning streak of CSKA, leader of the VTB United League since the start of the season, is 17 games.
“First of all, I’m glad that CSKA looks friendly and united, loves the game, the team is interested in Raikovich’s basketball,” Vatutin told . – The expectations that were formed during the collection of the file on Emil before his invitation are justified. Personal feelings coincided with portfolio data, Rajkovic manages to create a team united by a common goal, good humor, mutual trust and similar views on basketball. The coaching staff, I would say, afraid to praise. None of this guarantees success at the end of the season, but I like the process.
– If the decisive matches are in May, maybe it’s worth “scoring” the right way for the regular season? Experiment, play combinations and take the team to the top in the spring. From fourth place in the regular season, you can also become first.
– In the first year of work, it is difficult for any coach to embark on experiments, if only because you have to justify your meeting with daily results. Prove he can do it. At the same time, Raikovich did not shrink to a rotation of 5-6 people, but made the most of the depth of the bench, which impresses. Diseases and microtraumas constantly occur in the team, which we try not to publicize too much, and the coach has to change the combinations of players, move some of them to “non-traditional” positions. So the experiments are actually more than enough. And Rajkovic also works for his reputation, because every defeat automatically puts a question mark on the coach.
Humanly, everything is fine for him too, the Macedonian is an open person, contact, with humor. I don’t want to compare him to anyone, but so far so good. I’m not exaggerating, I say things as they are. Before the second half of the season, I would like to have the advantage of his site in the playoffs. The scheme of the championship in three rounds implies: to have the right to error in the third round, it is necessary to minimize the failures in the first. In a sense, we are now gaining such assurance.
Rajkovic, admittedly, differs from his predecessor in some ways.
– There is a certain contrast, but let’s not forget that the coach you are talking about worked in a different format, with two or even three matches a week, including one or two in the Euroleague. A direct comparison is incorrect and they present basketball differently.
– What is the difference?
– We will now use more players on the field who can perform attacks. Less emphasis on individual action, team play prevails. Today’s basketball may be more spectacular, but any comparison, I repeat, will be inaccurate, the coordinate systems are too different. When you played Barcelona on Tuesday, Real Madrid on Thursday and the VTB League team on Saturday, it is very difficult to achieve a high mental attitude for the third game. In 20 years of work, I haven’t found ways to achieve this, I think it’s basically impossible, no matter how professional the players are.
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