“When David arrived, he immediately said that we were preparing to win the Euros. For us, it was like a smart guy who had read commercial literature came in and made loud statements without understanding the alignment of the strengths.
I was also skeptical of his motivational speeches, but still, those words stuck in my head like a stain. Before the Euros we had a number of major defeats, and already in the championship we went through all the giants of European basketball, so it was a unique victory in every way. Our generation has three medals, so the victory cannot be called accidental. Today it is difficult to imagine such serial victories in major competitions.
David was not only a coach for our generation, but also a father-mentor,” Sport-Express quotes Bykov.
Recall that in the final of the 2007 European Championship, held in Madrid, the Russian team, led by David Blatt, beat the Spanish team with the score of 60:59. The decisive shot in the Russian team was executed by John Robert Holden two seconds before the end of regulation time. Andrey Kirilenko, who scored 17 points, became the most productive member of the Russian national team in this game.
This title was the first in the history of the Russian team.
Source: Sport
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