Failures in the last matches of the VTB League did not cause any pessimism among UNICS before the match against Zenit, the team believes in success, the president of the Kazan club told Yevgeny Bogachev.
UNICS will host Zenit in the VTB United League match at home on Saturday. The game will start at 15:00 (Moscow time). In the last two matches of the tournament, Kazan suffered defeats against Enisey and Parma. UNICS is in second place in the regular season standings, Zenit is third.
— What are the reasons for UNICS’ defeats in the last two matches and what is the team’s state of mind heading into the match against Zenit?
“Someone was sick, somewhere, something was wrong.” But it happens that the ring seems enchanted: in our match against Parma, they seemed to act normally in defense, they carried out attack after attack, but they could not strike in the first half of the match. Then Dimitrievich woke up, but it was already too late.
But hope dies last in every match, and we always hope until the last whistle, so we have no pessimism. We believe in success, we work, we take steps to restore potential.
Today, all the teams have expanded. Not to mention the Zenith. And unfortunately, this summer two of our players left for them – Georgy Zhbanov and Vince Hunter. In basketball, the notion of luck is very important: which side will it be on? I can’t boast that we will crush our opponent: Zenit has a strong team. Our team can also demonstrate solid play. They could be bad. And I don’t know if all of our basketball players will play or if anyone will get injured before tomorrow. Let’s see.
— What do you think are the advantages of UNICS compared to its adversaries?
— The fact is that during home matches we have a sixth player. And this sixth player is our audience, the team’s supporters, ”Bogachev told the correspondent.
Watch the live broadcast of the match on on Saturday.
Source : MatchTV
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