The UVT SCM Timișoara basketball team will open the XNUMXth stage of the regular season of the National Basketball League. The Lions from Banat will receive the visit of a team that considerably strengthened its team before this season, Dinamo Bucharest.
The game will take place Friday, November 18, from 18:00 p.m., in the Constantin Jude hall, and it comes after a break from domestic matches of almost four weeks, as our team sat in the round before the window for the national team.
However, at the end of last week, the Lions of Banat met the Croatian team KK Zabok, in the Alpe Adria Cup, 92-65, a victory that brought them qualification to the quarter-finals.
"I am very satisfied with how the team prepared, how it responded to everything Nenad Markovic and Cristian Bota asked. They respected everything I set before my departure to the national team. I want to highlight the very high degree of responsibility of the players, who did not decrease the level of intensity and preparation, even if the captain Laszlo Lazar, injured before the match, Edward Petrescu and the head coach, left for the national team, were missing. This shows the strength of the group"
Dragan Petricevic, head coach of SCM OHMA Mozzart Bet Timisoara
There is a series of three games in eight days, the first of which is the one against Dinamo, after which next week the white-violets will play away (with Spisski Rytieri, in Slovakia, on Tuesday, and with Steaua, on Saturday).
"Indeed, a difficult series is coming: now, after the match with Zabok, we are focusing on the championship for a while. In the Alpe Adria Cup, we want to finish the group in first place, to avoid in the quarter-finals Pardubice, which I consider one of the favorites to win the competition.
On Friday, we meet a totally changed team compared to what Dinamo was until now. It is about both the batch and the technical collective, completely changed. He saw the change in the game with Voluntari. It's a dream for any new manager to come into the team, win the first game and then have three weeks off for the next stages. With what he brought to the team and how much money he invested, it can be said that Dinamo is one of the clear favorites to win the championship. I, however, believe very much in the strength of our group, in the chemistry we have and that came very quickly"
Dragan Petricevic, head coach of SCM OHMA Mozzart Bet Timisoara
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