Today Skipper Bologna came to Moscow. In the evening Italian team had a 2-hour practice in the USH CSKA. The head coach of the team Jasmin Repesa took for the game against CSKA 12 players.
They are Hanno Mottola, Gianluca Basile, Stefano Mancinelli, Marco Belinelli, Matjaz Smodis, Robert Fultz, Gianmarco Pozzecco, Milos Vujanic, Tomas Van Den Spiegel, Erazem Lorbek, Patricio Prato and Carlos Delfino. The center of Skipper Van Den Spiegel has some injures problems but he came to Moscow.
Jasmin Repesa said about this player: He is together with us here. We will see tomorrow and take last decision. After that he answered several question for our site:
What can you say about group B?
- It is most tough group in Euroleague without questions. It is impossible to compare it with other groups because all teams in our group except KRKA Slovenia are very strong. They all are going to move to the TOP16 and may be to the Final Four.
What do you think about the chances of your team to move to TOP16?
- It would be very difficult for us. First of all we don’t have a status of the team like other teams in our group. We lost a game against Maccabi in Bologna, this way we helped this team a lot. That’s why I get crazy after that game. We made some mistakes especially in the end of the game. But we will try and we will fight in every game. We will try to reach our goal to come to TOP16.
Who of CSKA players would you like to see in your team?
- All of them!
What do you know about Russian basketball?
- I know many things. Great history, may be in last period national team hasn’t so good results like before. Great talents, many good young players like Monya and Khryapa in CSKA. They are very lucky to work with so great coach like Ivkovic. You have the best coach in Europe. Ivkovic is the best for me. CSKA is a club with the great history, with very good organization with Sergey Kushchenko. Very good organization, good staff, good roster, everything is perfect this moment.
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