Pre-game breakdown
The Army Men practically had no chance to rest in the tough schedule. The team returned from the trip to Krasnoyarsk late at night on Saturday and visited USH CSKA twice on Sunday: for video analysis in the morning and practice in the evening.
Kosta Koufos (foot injury) remains out for CSKA. Ron Baker is not on the team’s VTB League roster.
Tony Carr, Alexander Platunov and Gleb Sheiko are on Parma’s injured list.
Word to the coach
Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:
We deserved to lose to Enisey, they played better. But I hope that after long morning video session and afternoon practice we got it. In my career I like to get the messages, smart people will learn something out of that. Parma has a new team, very intelligent and sized. They go on offensive boards like crazy, this is one of the keys – to protect our boards and win rebounding battle. It’s another tough game for us. We need every game to look as a team more and more.
Close “relations”
Perm CEO Alexander Bashminov played for CSKA from 1996 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004.
Ivan Ukhov played for Parma from 2012 to 2018.
Artme Zabelin defended CSKA colors from 2007 to 2011.
Maxim Grigoriev was a teammate of two CSKA players. He played with Nikita Kurbanov for Lokomotiv-Kuban (2014-15) and with Semen Antonov for Nizhny Novgorod (2015-16).
Past matchups
Wins-losses: 6-0
2018-19 VTB United League Regular Season games
29-Oct-2018. CSKA – Parma: 108-84 (+24)
15-Feb-2019. Parma – CSKA: 69-79 (+10)
Short dossier
Founded: 2012
Colors: blue, white
Home court: UPS Molot (7,000)
President: Sergey Boguslavsky
CEO: Alexander Bashminov
Head coach: Kazis Maskvitis
Website: parmabasket.ru
Trophy case: 2-time Russian Cup winner (2016, 19), SuperLeague 1 bronze winner (2016)
