Kazansky UNICS after winning the 2022/23 United League season, VTB wants to keep the main basketball players in the team and hopes to strengthen with new players, club president Evgeny Bogachev told .
In the last season of the United League, UNICS became the champions for the first time in its history. The last playoff series against Lokomotiv-Kuban ended with a 4-1 win for Kazan.
— UNICS started the off-season in a very active way: they extended contracts with several players, signed newcomers. Are other improvements planned?
– We plan to reinforce, I cannot name specific players before signing, but the main thing is that there is a will to sign new basketball players. Every year we were second, third, although we won the European Cup, FIBA, three Russian Cups. Now we have finally won the Russian championship and we will try to move on. I hope that half of the team, the backbone, will stay, because last year we had to recruit almost from scratch. Stability in this regard is very important. In basketball, a lot still depends on luck, good luck, so that there are no injuries. Especially now that so many viruses have appeared, someone can get sick before decisive matches,” Bogachev told .
During the offseason, UNICS extended the contract with head coach Velimir Perasovich, point guard Vyacheslav Zaitsev, defender Marcos Knight and center Ivan Lazarev. The first newcomer to the Kazan club in the current offseason was attacking defender Dmitry Kulagin, who spent last season for Zenit.
Source : MatchTV
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