“The young Russians showed their teeth. Our basketball will never die” – Yelevich on MBA win over Zenit

The key to the success of MBA basketball players in the game with “Zenith “has become the training tactic and the great desire of the team to defeat the champion, said the honored coach of Russia in an interview with Sergei Elevitch .

MBA beat Zenit in extra time of the United League regular season home game with a score of 76:75, when the team from Moscow was 20 points behind the opponent. Petersburgers take third place in the standings, Muscovites are ranked lower.

– Why did the IBA win a voluntary victory in this match? Due to the fact that the Muscovites changed their tactics and began to play well in defense. In this game, I had a lot of fun seeing how this game was run by the IBA coaching staff. After the match, I congratulated the team’s head coach Vasily Karasev. I told him that they had won because they had provided their assets in the second half of the game, when Zenit already thought they had won. But then the opponent gave him the fight he didn’t expect.

The first moment – the MBA added to the defense, the second – the players got hits from long range. But, more importantly, Vasya Karasev made very timely substitutions. This allowed the leaders to rest and resolve the issues the head coach was facing.

The MBA had a very positive game. First of all, of course, it should be noted that young Russian basketball players played against a large number of foreign players. Zenit had six foreigners whom they beat due to their great desire to defeat the champion. The young Russians showed their teeth. This suggests that Russian basketball will never die. It will grow and work because we have a lot of schools and coaches working with young people. And they do this job at a very good level. And here we have to look at the prospects of our team, which after a while will already be successful on the international stage,” Yelevich told .