Eremin: “Over the past two years, Dimitrievich has been a team building player. His departure is a loss for UNICS.”

Defender Nenad Dimitrijevic over the past two years he has been a key player UNICS his departure will therefore be a loss for the team, Stanislav Eremin, assistant to the president of the Kazan club, Honored Coach of Russia, told .

UNICS announced on Friday that the 26-year-old basketball player was leaving the club and would continue his career with another team. Dimitrievich has been playing for Kazan since 2022. As part of UNICS, the North Macedonian native won the VTB United League last year.

— Of course, over the past two years, Dimitrievich has been a team-building player, and the UNICS game has been largely determined by his actions. We must pay tribute to him, this young man played excellent basketball. May God grant him success in the future. But it seemed to me that he still needed another year to become a mentally stable player, but he made the decision that he needed to play at the Euroleague level.

I repeat, he was our main player, and the public loved him, and his teammates also treated him very well, because he himself scored goals and at the same time was not greedy, he made passes. Of course, his departure now constitutes a definitive loss for UNICS. But we take the selection work very seriously. One of the main tasks now is to find a worthy replacement. He must be a high-level basketball player, a leader who knows how to score himself and pass passes to his teammates. And, of course, someone who knows how to play pick-and-roll well. Because if Bako stays with us, then his game will largely depend on the actions of the backline players,” Eremin told .

Last season of the VTB United League, Dimitrievich participated in 50 matches in which he averaged 18.6 points, 6.9 assists, 3.6 rebounds and 1.2 steals in 30:01 minutes of play Dimitrievich was also named regular season MVP.

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