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Rimas Kurtinaitis, the head coach of the Moscow Chimki region, ahead of tonight’s game in Vitoria with local Baskonia, believes his students have a good chance of achieving the first victory in the Euroleague.
Moscow Chimki Region / Schedule
The Lithuanian-led team did not win during the first three matches. He landed at Panathinaika in Athens, Žalgiris in Kaunas and Real in Madrid.
Chimki has been playing in a very tight rotation since the beginning of the season. Janis Timma, Jordan Mickey, Greg Monroe, Maxim Barashkov and Yevgeny Voronov suffer from coronavirus, and Alexei Swede, Dairis Bertans and Stefan Jovic have suffered injuries. At that time, Errick McCollum is still in quarantine.
“I think we played well, but we don’t have enough energy to win,” Kurtinaitis said before the game. – We are waiting for the first victory and I think we have a lot of chances in the game with “Baskonia”. If things go the way we expect, our chances increase. We will certainly fight. It is not enough to play and lose, we have to play well and win. This time it has come, we see the game with Baskonia as we want to win. Baskonia has changed, now it is a new team, but also fast, that plays traditional Spanish basketball. If we can control the speed of the match, as we did in the match with Real, our chances will be better even without a good shot.
We like fast basketball, we are famous for it, but that does not suit us at the moment. We must also show discipline and stop their swift attacks. Baskonia are playing a good game, they have beaten Real, as well as several matches in the Spanish league. Dushko Ivanovich is a very good specialist. We are expecting a difficult match. “
Baskonia will play their first match this week as the match against Zenit St Petersburg was not played.
The start of the match in Vitoria is today at 22.00.
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