The key to success “Samarah” At the beginning of the VTB United League season there was a cohesive team and good team play, but it is too early to talk about the fight for medals, now we have to think about each of our closest rivals, said club president Kamo Poghosyan. told .
In the last match, Samara defeated last season’s champion UNICS at home. The match ended with a score of 104:93. Currently, Samara is in 4th place in the league standings. The team has four wins and two losses.
— Samara started this season very well. The main sensation was your victories over MBA and last season’s champion UNICS. What is the secret of success?
“The team played very well.” This rarely happens when absolutely everyone who entered the court (and we played with 9 basketball players) excelled in the game. At the same time, everyone played an important role and the team was a whole. They showed very good basketball on offense and defense. There was great dedication. Of course, UNICS also showed a good game, but apparently our motivation was higher. After all, they are champions and victory over us is, in principle, more common for them.
But for us, I wouldn’t call this victory an accident. Because in the pre-season matches, we won one of the two matches against them. At the same time, we were without two foreign basketball players, but they were basically complete: an American simply did not reach them.
So it all depends on the type of basketball we show. The match against UNICS was complete and all members of the team played well. Maybe that’s what we were looking for. And our coach told me: “Kamo Sergeyevich, if we all play together and no one gives up, we can show very good basketball. that’s exactly what happened. Despite the fact that the team in the match against UNICS was led not by head coach Drazen Anzulovich, but by his assistant, to whom he entrusted responsibilities in his absence. Anzulovich is a former professional basketball player. He has a knee problem and recently had surgery.
— The MBA now occupies fourth place. Are you planning to compete for medals?
– Let’s not talk about it now. For the moment, we have to think about the matches to come. Yes, we were able to beat UNICS, which retained its squad. The only thing: Marcos Knight didn’t play in his last game. It is true that Rade Zagorac, injured during the pre-season, has not yet played a single match for us. This is also a serious loss. So now, of course, we only think about our closest opponent, and our closest opponent is last season’s silver medalist, Lokomotiv-Kuban. Yes, he didn’t start the season very well, but now he is already coming out of this hole: the Krasnodar team beat Zenit at home. So we have a difficult match ahead of us, for which we will prepare. So this is exactly what we are thinking about now,” Pogosyan told .
Watch matches of the VTB United League on the TV channels of the Match! holding company, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru
Source : MatchTV
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