Athletistic / Basketball Zenit head coach Javier Pascual spoke about the state of the squad ahead of the start of the VTB United League Super Cup and the tournament duties.

“We have to recover, because already on Friday we start fighting for the Super Bowl. Usually the tournament starts on Thursday, but we don’t play on the first day and then we’ll play three games in a row. Therefore, we have to be ready for this tournament both mentally and physically. Let’s see what we can show at the Super Bowl, but the task is to show good basketball in the first place.

Despite the victory in Kondrashin and Belov Cup, we are still not the team we want to be, and we have to improve on many indicators. But we will try to find each other,” Pascual quoted Zenith’s official website.