Junior international tournament dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the basketball club L`Hospitalet has started today in Barcelona, Spain. In the first game CSKA junior team played against the hosts of the tournament. Our team became leaders in the first quarter and finished this game with the big advantage:
L`Hospitalet – CSKA: 68-112
After the game the head coach of the Eugeny Pashutin has give a little interview to our site:
- The first half has passed in the very tense struggle. We played good in defense, especially Valery Likhodey and GeorgeTsintsadze. In the second half we could change the course of the game. When our advantage became big we tried to use the zone defense. All our players has many playing time today. We could use different schemes in this game. All It is good that in the first game we played against not very strong team. The level of the teams on this tournament is very good. I’m sure that we must expect very strong games.
12 junior teams are playing on this tournament. They were divided into four groups:
Group A
Barcelona (Spain)
Real (Spain)
Caja San Fernando (Spain)
Group B
CSKA (Russia)
Unicaja (Spain)
L`Hospitalet (Spain)
Group C
OAK Hill Basketball (USA)
Adecco (France)
Joventut de Badalona (Spain)
Group D
AEK (Greece)
Pamesa (Spain)
Unio (Spain)
Games in the groups will take place on January, 4 and 5.
On January, 5 they are two games in the Group B:
10:00 CET Unicaja – L`Hospitalet
16:00 CET Unicaja – CSKA
January, 6:
09:00 - 13:00 CET Semi-finals of 3rd and 2on
10:00 - 12:00 CET Semi-final of 1st A-D
12:00 - 14:00 CET Semi-final of 1st B-C
14:00 – 15:45 CET Final of thirds
15:45 – 17:30 CET Final of seconds
17:30 CET Three points game
18:00 CET Dunks game
19:00 CET Great final of the tournament
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