Games Notes UNICS KAZAN STEAUA CSM EXIMBANK BUCHAREST
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Games Notes UNICS KAZAN STEAUA CSM EXIMBANK BUCHAREST
Games Notes UNICS KAZAN vs. STEAUA CSM EXIMBANK BUCHAREST Date: 14 October, 2015 Regular Season Kazan Round #1 CONTENTS Part I UNICS Kazan Team focus 3 Roster 5 Part II Steaua CSM Eximbank Bucharest Team focus 7 Roster 8 Part III Useful tips Eurocup/format 10 Regulations for Media 13 Venue press facilities 16 News column 19 2 Part I UNICS Kazan Russia 3 Club info Address Postal address: Basket-hall, Spartakovskaya Street, 1 Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia, 420107 Tel./Fax: (843) 292-16-55, 292-41-18 E-mail: [email protected] Media contacts Olga Kamardina Mob./What’s up +79377729272 E-mail: [email protected] History & achievements: UNICS Kazan Unics Kazan comes off a great season that Eurocup: 2010-11 NEBL: 2002-03 saw the team come FIBA Europe League: 2003-04 within one result the Russian National Cup: 2003, Eurocup crown. 2009, 2014 This season the club has a chance to do even more as it begins its campaign in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague qualifying rounds. Unics reached the Eurocup Finals sporting a 20-2 record, which helped Andrew Goudelock earn Eurocup MVP honors and Andrea Trinchieri to be chosen as the Eurocup Coach of the Year. Valencia Basket Club stopped Unics’s march to the title, but Unics bounced back by lifting the Russian Cup trophy and reaching the VTB League semifinals. Founded in 1991, Unics soon became the perfect ambassador for the sports-crazy Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation and within a decade was challenging for titles. The club reached the Russian League finals in 2001 and 2002, the year in which it also made it to the Saporta Cup semifinals. Its hard work paid off in 2003, when Unics downed CSKA in overtime to lift the Russian Cup. In 2004, Kazan was home to the FIBA Europe League final four and Unics made the most of it by downing Maroussi to win its first continental title. Unics made its ULEB Cup debut in the 2005-06 season and already reached the semifinals the following year, before losing against Real Madrid. Unics also reached the 2008 ULEB Cup Final Eight. Everything clicked in the 2010-11 Eurocup as Unics won its regular season and Last 16 groups and swept its quarterfinal series. Once in the Finals, Unics thrashed Cedevita Zagreb in the semifinals and bested Cajasol Sevilla in the championship game. Marko Popovic amassed 18 points and 11 assists to earn Finals MVP honors. Unics made its Euroleague debut a successful one in 2011-12 season by going all the way to the playoffs. No longer satisfied with being near the top, expect Unics Kazan to challenge for plenty of silverware this season and try to reach the Euroleague through the qualifying rounds. TROPHY CASE 4 Team roster: UNICS Kazan # Player Position Height 5 Langford Keith Guard 7 Ponkrashov Anton Forward 2.00 9 Parakhouski Artem Center 2.11 10 Colom Quino Guard 1.88 11 Likhodey Valeriy Forward 2.04 13 Banic Marko Forward 2.05 15 Gubanov Petr Forward 2.06 19 Fidii Evgeniy Forward 2.05 20 Panin Vadim Guard 21 Kaimakoglou Kostas Forward 2.04 22 Latavious Williams Forward 2.03 24 Milaknis Arturas Guard 1.95 33 Khabirov Ruslan Guard 1.92 55 Jerrells Curtis Guard 1.85 70 Evstafiev Vladislav Forward 2.02 99 Nezvankin Dmitriy Guard Head coach: Evgeny Pashutin 1.93 2.03 1.86 5 Top managers President Evgeniy Bogachev 1st Vice-President Robert Minnegaliev Vice-President Supervisory Board Chair Olga Askhanova 6 General Director Victoria Eremeeva Part II STEAUA CSM Eximbank Bucharest 7 Club info Address: Bulevardul Vasile Milea nr 5-7, Sector 6, Bucharest - Romania Tel. +40 773.864.561 Arena: Sala Polivalenta Media contacts Tel.: +40 773.864.561 E-mail: [email protected]. History & achievements: STEAUA CSM Eximbank Bucharest Steaua CSM EximBank Bucharest arrives to the Eurocup for its debut season and will be bringing its long and rich tradition plus 21 Romanian League titles with it. Last season Steaua was in title contention in the Romanian League, only two years after making its return to the elite level. It finished the regular season in second place before reaching the playoff semifinals. That marked a return to prominence for a proud club founded in 1952, which won its first league title back in 1956. Two years later a squad led by Emil Nicolescu, Mihai Nedef, Andrei Folbert and Alexandru Fodor started a run of seven straight national championships. Steaua made its European debut in 1957, and regularly appeared in the European competitions for 40 years, including a trip to the Euroleague semifinals in the 1960-61 season, where it was ousted by eventual champion CSKA Moscow. The team’s first Romanian League and Cup double came in 1966 and it won its 10th league title in 1970. Steaua returned to domestic dominance with another title in 1978, before winning 10 championships between 1980 and 1991, including a double in 1981. Steaua was still making Korac Cup appearances in 1996 and 1997, but financial troubles started the club’s collapse, and from 2003 the tradition of Steaua continued only at the junior level. The club was reestablished in 2008 by merging with BC Targoviste, but it was in and out of first division. Steaua reached the 2011 Romanian Cup final, but had to pull out of the competition before the start of 2011-12 season. Virgil Stanescu’s arrival as president gave the club a new boost. Steaua returned to second division in 2012 and immediately earned promotion to the top level. In 2013, Steaua came together with CSM Bucharest and continued its rise last season, which allows it to now face its biggest challenge of the century when it makes its debut in the Eurocup. 8 Team roster: STEAUA CSM Eximbank Bucharest # Player Position Height - Lee Gerald Center 2.08 - Rasic Aleksandar Guard 1.95 5 Paul Mihail Guard 1.92 6 Szijarto Levente Guard 1.92 7 Barac Pankracije Guard 1.96 9 Rosu Adrian Forward 1.98 13 Amis Bill Forward 2.06 14 Nicoara Titus Forward 2.03 20 Cooper Chris Center 2.05 23 Popa Bogdan Center 2.11 33 Ikovlev Denis Forward 2.00 41 Marinovic Marko Guard 1.83 55 Dragusin Ionut Center 2.21 Head coach: Sapera Hristu 9 Part III EUROCUP FORMAT 10 11 12 Regulations for Media Article 70. Access to Team Locker Rooms for the Media and Post-Game Press Conference 70.1. Five minutes after the final buzzer, the head coach or media director will announce to the accredited media that their team locker room is open. The team manager, media director or other official from each club will tell the players when the media are about to enter the locker room, and also if any women are among the accredited media. Then the locker room must be opened to properly accredited media, with local security thoroughly briefed to conform with the regulation and ensure accreditation enforcement. 70.2. The locker room will remain open to the accredited media for a minimum of 15 minutes, and the players will have to attend to them during this entire period at least. 70.3. If space allows, all accredited media – and only accredited media – will be allowed to enter both locker rooms. Due to, and only to, potential space problems, each club may decide before the season on a minimum number of accredited media – never less than 15 per locker room – to be given special locker room accreditations for each game. If the number does not meet the demand (16 or more accredited media want to enter locker rooms), the access will be awarded on a rotating game-to-game basis. Those not in the rotation for the locker room of the home team should be given accreditation to enter the locker room of the visiting team. Locker room accreditations will be distributed equally to all media types, with at least the host broadcaster, the international rights holder, one major daily newspaper, and 13 one radio station allowed in the locker rooms of the home and visiting team after each game. The Eurocupbasketball.com correspondent of each club will always be included in the rotation. The Company will reserve the right to raise the minimum of 15 accredited media per locker room for certain games. All visiting media approved by the media director of the visiting club will be given accreditation at least to the locker room of the visiting team, and also to that of the home team, if space allows. 70.4. The press conference room will be located in proximity to the locker rooms and the media work room. A press conference with the head coach of the visiting team will begin within a maximum of 20 minutes following the final buzzer. Immediately following the conclusion of this a press conference with the head coach of the home team will start (the head coaches will attend to the media separately). The press conference times will not affect the opening of the team locker rooms. 70.5. Without prejudice to the head coaches’ and players’ obligation to meet the media in the press conference room and locker rooms, the head coaches and players must also be available to talk to the rights holders on the playing court, for flash interviews, immediately after each game. 70.6. The coordination work for the correct functioning of the press conference and locker room policy will fall upon the media director of the home club. 70.7. The media director or a staff member of each club will accompany their head coach and players to the press conference and will be responsible for the translation from/into English of all questions and statements. 70.8. The media director of the home club will be responsible for the translation of all questions and 14 statements from/into English and the official language of the home club’s country. 70.9. It is recommended that the post-game press conferences are broadcast live on YouTube and on any other platform that the club may decide. If the post-game press conference is broadcast, the URL address of the press conference will be sent to the Company’s Communication Department no later than two days before the game. The Company reserves the right to embed the press conferences on eurocupbasketball.com and on the website of the Company’s premium media partner from each territory. 70.10. A statement of post-game media access rules as provided by the Company will be posted, in English, on locker room doors and in the media work room of each arena before, during and after all games. 15 Venue Press facilities Basket-hall Kazan, Russian Federation Date of foundation: 2002 Capacity: Main venue: 7.000 spectators, small venue: 1500 spectators "Basket-hall" is the home venue for all UNICS Kazan games. It is the largest specialized basketball sport venue in Russia, able to conduct team sport competitions as well as individual sports tournaments. The President and the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan contributed greatly to the "Basket-hall" construction. It was Evgeny B. Bogachev - the Chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Tatarstan, the President of the BC "UNICS", who initiated the construction started. Alongside basketball and volleyball Russian and European competitions “Basket-hall” served as the venue for the XXVII World Summer Universiade tournament in basketball in 2013. It also hosted World and European championships on fencing, boxing, chess and weightlifting. Contact information & Address: Russia, 420111, Kazan, Spartakovskaya St.1 Tel/fax: + 7 843 291-15-00 16 Media entrance Useful tips: Entrance#4 (Вход 4) FOP Photo-positions 17 Elevated photo-positions Press tribune Useful tips: Leaving the Media Entrance go straight, enter the hall, go downstairs, go straight, go upstairs, sector 1Г - 50 tabled + 50 non-tabled seats - LAN ports for photographers - ISND lines can be organized upon request 18 Media Workroom Useful tips: leaving mixed-zone, turn to the left, go to the elevator, 3rd floor), room #611 19 Press Conference Room Useful tips: leaving mixed-zone, turn to the left, go to the elevator, 3rd floor), room #605 News column Chasing the Belarus Dragon Source: www.unics.ru Belarus dragon Tsmoki once again visited his brother Zilant, symbol of Kazan, and defeated UNICS on the road by 91:83. UNICS has definitely underestimated his opponent. There is hardly another reasons for this initial defeat. Guests gave an excellent match. They had motivation and courage, and did not get embarrassed on the road. And on the other hand, it was the hosts, that gave them the chance to do really well. UNICS substantially changed their roster this midseason, and therefore experienced some difficulties with their team chemistry. Tsmoki felt pretty sure of themselves with their almost last-year-a fewchanges roster. The only signed two Americans: guard Anthony Hilliard and center Garrett Stutz. UNICS took a good start. Joaquin Colom and Valeriy Likhodey scored two triples. Fans drove the home team forward. Students, occupying the upper circle, were waving the flags and did not cease shouting for a second. Meanwhile, guests took the game’s strings in their hands. They levelled the score by the mid-quarter – 10:10. UNICS took “mal entendu” easy, though the way our opponents started to do on court brought alacrity. Tsmoki played secure defensively, and offensive efficiency looked pretty impressive as the ones supposed to defend their floor were not coping. The second quarter started by the two-points jump shot by Vitaliy Liutych, which lead Tsmoki forward for the first time during this match – 22:24. 2 minutes later the gap reached 5 points – 23:28. Guests took good advantage of the tactic line chosen by “Laboral Kutxa” at the Gomelsky Cup pillared on the fast ball passing to the opponents court and occasional full court pressing. Hilliard shone brightly with his lower deck combats. 20 Securing the 8-points advantage at 23:31, the team from Minsk started to play zone defense. Kazanians lacked harassment and fire, though not everything looked that black. Ponkrashov entered the game and did pretty well. Colom productively dished to Parakhouski and even scored from the downtown to make it – 32:34. Tsmoki felt home in the third quarter. They shot out of the arc to collect 4 out of 9 long shots, secured during the match, dealt well with pick-n-rolls and one-on-one clashes. As a result, we had 61:73 in their favor one quarter before the buzzer. Langford tried to take the game’s strings in his hands, though often took too much. The hosts started to play more actively, did better defensively, but they were pressed for time. The final buzzer sealed 83:91 – in favor of “Tsmoki”. Opponents have almost equal stats indicators as for 2points and 3-points shots. UNICS lost in free throws 15/19 comparing to 26/30, which turned to be one of the key playing efficiency characteristics. Postgame comments. Igor Griszczuk, Tsmoki-Minsk head coach: - We came into this game well prepared, watched a lot of film of UNICS’ play in the Gomelsky Cup. I think we were lucky to play them in this point of the season, because they aren’t in their prime condition quite yet. We have managed to win this game thanks to the team defense mainly. Evgeny Pashutin, UNICS Kazan head coach: - We were awful defensively, it’s unacceptable to let in 91 points. Minsk’s players scored from everywhere on the court, slashed to the rim at will. We will draw conclusions from this game and start working on our mistakes tomorrow. Statistics. 7 October 2015. United VTB League. UNICS – Tsmoki-Minsk 83:91 (22:20, 16:22, 23:31,22:18) Game leaders. UNICS: Langford (24), Likhodey (15), Ponkrashov (12), Colom (10), Milaknis (10); Tsmoki-Minsk: Mirkovic (17), Maras (16), Stutz (16), Gray (13), Kudrautsau (11), Hilliard (10) 21 That toothy “Nymburk” Source: www.unics.ru UNICS celebrated their first home win in the new season, defeating Czech side by 94:87. Nymburk from the Czech Republic turned to be the second opponent for UNICS Kazan in the United VTB League. It goes without saying, that the match did not promise an easy stroll. Opponents from Czech Republic were pretty strong. They almost set a sensation, celebrating two win to go at the start of the new season, having Euroleague-residing “Lokomotive – Kuban” as one of the teams conquered. The team has a trend-setting coach Ronen Gunzburg, heading the National Czech team to the Rio 2016 Olympic Qualification tournament. Apart from the story we keep, the Czechs have always been a nut. They respected their basketball routes and traditions, among which was their win at the first European Championship after the World War II. UNICS stood this game much better comparing to the first one. They did better both defensively and offensively. Our guy did not escape physical contacts, on the contrary, they went courageously forward setting the situation on edge. They did not cease fighting till the very end, boxing out and blocking out the banks to have the pleasant figures of 14 defensive rebounds in the end. What about Nymburk? It is a well-built team, which managed to sign pretty good foreign players in the midseason. Among them, Americans Michael Dixon, Chasson Randle and Julian Vaughn, Cuban Howard Sant-Roos and Belgian National team member Maxime de Zeeuw. Anyway, the man real story-making for the first quarter was a Czech National team member Vijtech Hruban. He collected 11 points, realizing all his three-points chances - 3/3. He scored 8 out of the first 10 points, setting the score at 5 – 10 after first 3 minutes of the game. Thanks to his energy and efficiency, his team finished the 1st quarter leading at 27:24. 22 “Nymburk”, like many modern basketball teams, tends passing the ball to the opponent’s half-court as fast as possible. Our players took up the glove, which made the game dynamic and exciting. Kazanians did not try to shoot out of the arc by all means, they should better like dribbling and one-on-one duels. Kaimakoglou often played downstairs, crabbing to reach the basket. Our players have made a number of effective breaks. Three times in the first quarter at the very least they scored, making opponents commit personal fouls. And what we really lacked was accuracy in defense. For the first and the only time in the gap, UNICS went ahead 2 minutes to the first break at 19:18 just to see the first quarter finished at 24:27 in favor of the guests. Arturas Milaknis levelled the chances, launching the second period - 27:27. The game was even, which showed the mid-quarter: 33:33. Whatever efforts Randle might took to mark Colom, it was almost impossible to stop him: he dished, he scored and he collected 12 points after the first half. Then, UNICS improved on defense. They started to control both: the screens and the breaks inside. Guests tried to change to zone defense, but that was of little effect. Triples by Likhodey and Milaknis brought UNICS forward to 41:37, and the halftime buzzer sealed 48:42 in favor of the hosts. The third quarter got started and who knows how, but UNICS managed to collect 4 fouls to go during its first minute. Guests did not hesitate to punish the hosts. They shot free throws to collect 5 points out of 8. Very soon, closer to the mid-time, the Czechs returned to the zone defense. They reached UNICS at 56:56 just to restart full court pressing. Opponents traded three points shots – 2 by each side. Colom dished excellently to Banic, having nothing to do but to jam the ball inside – 68:64. Dixon committed his fifth foul. Kazan players doubled their energy to reach their first win. Likhodey scored a tomahawk at 77:70, Gubanov kept on the rhythm scoring 2-points and free throws to go – 84:72. Langford shot a triple 2 minutes before the buzzer to leave no doubts of the name of the winner – 87:74. 23 The match ended at 94:87 in favor of UNICS. Postgame comments Ronen Ginzburg, Nymburk head coach - If someone before the match told me, we should lose just by 7 points, I would be very much surprised. We have come to Kazan missing a number of top Czech National team players. It is pretty difficult to do without them. Today we played well offensively, but were not that good in defense. Evgeny Pashutin, UNICS Kazan head coach - We have made serious conclusions after the first game. Today we had better mood, and we played better defensively. Colom did a good job. He scored himself and he also conducted the game. Milaknis brought good use in offense. Likhodey played very well, Gubanov ground for the defense so that we could close the zone from inside. We have coped with Dixon, the go-in guy of the Czech team, making him leave the court beforehand. The way we did in defense at the end of the third – beginning of the fourth is exemplary. I am almost satisfied with the way my team played today, but for we conceded too much. We shall look to concede not more than 75 – 77 points in the future. Statistics. 11 October, 2015. United VTB League UNICS vs. Nymburk 94:87 (24:27, 24:15, 20:22, 26:23) Game leaders. UNICS: Colom (19), Langford (18), Milaknis (14), Likhodey (12), Gubanov (10); Nymburk: Hruban (24), De Zeeuw (19), Randle (13), Vaughn (11). 24 VTB League stats UNICS Kazan schedule in the VTB League http://www.vtb-league.com/en/widget/schedule.htm Standings in the VTB League http://www.vtbleague.com/en/standings/standings.htm Players stats in the VTB League http://www.vtb-league.com/en/widget/playersstatistics.htm 25
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