Sergey Elevic: CSKA is ready to play in NBA

19.11.2004
Sergey Elevich (photo cskabasket.com)
Tonight the next opponent of the army team in Superleague championship Khimki Moscow Region had a 2-hour practice in USH CSKA. Players and coaching staff came to sport hall earlier and Oscar Torres started to prepare in the hall. The head coach of the team Sergey Elevic agreed to answer several questions for our site:

Do you have any injured players?

Yes. Alexey Petrenko is ill, Denis Ershov has some problems, Ruben Wolkowyski did not recover after the injury of his leg.

Last summer first foreign players came to your team. What changed in the atmosphere of the team?

Yes, we are working with legionnaries for a first season. We have some problems. We need to untie last year roster with new players. Last season Russian players were leaders of the team, and now some new players moved into their places. We dont have problems with the language or with the tasks for the season.

What can you say about the game of new players on the start of the season?

I think that they did not get into their best shape and did not show their best game yet.

What do you need to win today?

We need to be united team to beat such good mechanisme under Dusan Ivkovic coaching. CSKA has very good roster this season, they can to play in NBA with such squad of players.