Basketball
Coach Eremin explained how Spain won the European Basketball Championship
Stanislav Eremin / Photo: © RIA Novosti / Alexey Danichev
Honored coach of Russia Stanislav Eremin explained how Spain achieved success at the European Championship and why teams with superstars failed in the tournament.
Basketball players of the Spanish national team on Sunday in Berlin beat the French team in the final of the European Championship, which was held in Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy and Georgia. The Spanish national team won the EuroBasket for the fourth time in history, having previously won in 2009, 2011 and 2015.
– Spain has a very good base to win. See how they perform teams of all ages. Strongest everywhere. What is their championship? How many players do they have in the National Basketball Association. Yes, they are changing generations, but EuroBasket showed that those who came are worthy guys. You can accidentally lose, but you can’t win by chance, ”RG” quotes Eremin.
– Teams with superstars failed: Slovenia with Luka Doncic, Greece with Giannis Antetokounmpo, Serbia with Nikola Jokic. Do these failures have anything in common?
– Each of these teams had their own reasons for the unsuccessful performance. Suppose the Serbian national team. It was a surprise for me that it was headed by 73-year-old Svetislav Pesic. This is a very well-deserved coach who achieved results both with clubs and with the national team. But age still takes its toll. A new generation is coming, and it’s not that you understand basketball and know how to build a training process. These guys are good for your grandchildren, they have a different mentality that requires a different energy. And Pesic is an authoritarian coach. Perhaps the current Serbian national team requires a different approach. Despite the fact that the composition of the Serbs is very strong in terms of names, they lacked internal chemistry.
As for Greece. Her head coach Dimitris Itoudis has so many awards, so many victories, he also knows how to organize the training process, but it’s not a secret for everyone that playing the game is not Itoudis’s strongest point. It probably had an effect too. It was in this championship that the winning teams found options for strengthening during the game. And Itoudis, it seems to me, did not find such moments. Well, Slovenia… This is a team that depends heavily on the performance of Doncic and Dragic. But maybe such a team does not need a coach. More precisely, we need a coach who would not interfere with these basketball players to play. Well, the burden of responsibility also affected: at the most important moment, the realization that “we are stronger, we must win” crushed them.
– Hypothetically, what could our team count on at EuroBasket, which qualified for the tournament, but was removed from it for political reasons?
— Our team could count on reaching the playoffs. The fact that the Russian team did not participate in such a big forum is a tragedy for our basketball and a loss for the European one. Our teams were always respected, they were considered. We know how to surprise. Another point: European basketball has taken a big step forward. Look, even such teams as Estonia, Finland, Poland have risen. And we, unfortunately, are cut off from big basketball, – Eremin added.
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Bayern announced the appointment of the team’s head coach on its official website. Svetislav Pesic.
The most successful coach in German basketball history signed a contract with Munich until the end of the season.
The Serbian specialist will replace Gordon Herbert as head coach, with whom the German champions agreed to end their cooperation early by mutual consent.
76-year-old Pesic took over as head of Bayern Munich for the second time. He first joined the Munich team in the autumn of 2012 and remained with them until 2016, winning the first Bundesliga title in the club’s history in 2014.
Svetislav’s greatest achievements include the 2002 World Cup title with Yugoslavia, the 1993 European Championship victory with the German team, and the gold medal at EuroBasket 2001 with Yugoslavia. At club level, the Serbian specialist won the treble in Spain, including winning the Euroleague with Barcelona in 2003. Alba won five championships and two German Cups with Berlin.
In 2024, Pesic won the Olympic bronze medal with the Serbian national team, which he led until last summer, by beating Germany and finishing third in the match.
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Head coach of BC Zaporozhye Dmitry Shchiglinsky He summarized the results of the team’s last matches in 2025 against Krivbass (68:84) and Niko-Basket (78:67).
“Going into the last calendar bubble this year we clearly understood how important this was for us in terms of tournament position. “Krivbass” were right behind us in the table and “Niko-Basket” were playing at home, so both matches promised to be extremely difficult. We were also without our captain Anton Buts, who was injured, which significantly affected the preparations.
We had a bad start to our match against Krivbass, the opponent scored their first long range shots, became confident and kept control of the match for most of the game. We managed to reduce the difference to 4 points in the fourth quarter, but unfortunately we did not have the strength to do more. Krivbass’ last attack with 11:0 gave them an important victory. In the absence of Anton Buts, they had to use rotation and it was not easy for Vyacheslav Kiktev to counter the opponent’s big players.
Our expectations were also the highest for our second match against Niko-Basket. We recently met with this team at the Ukrainian Cup and made a comprehensive analysis. I would like to thank my assistant for her quality work. We analyzed the mistakes in the previous match in detail and focused on playing defense. Even though we made many interventions at the beginning of the match, we could not immediately gain the scoring advantage. The team added more after the first quarter. There were quick breaks, easy points and a more organized attack, and these ultimately brought results. We got the win we needed.
Overall, I am happy with the results of this dough. We maintained our place among the top four teams in the Super League, so I evaluate the performance positively. Playing without one of the starting five players is a serious challenge for our team. I thank the men for their character; “After the defeat in the first match, no one gave up and the next day we played a high-quality game, first of all, as a single team.”
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5 matches were played in the eighth round of the regular season in the Super League. Four more matches were played in Nikolaev and one in Rivne.
Six clubs played their matches during the weekend and the symbolic team was determined according to the results:
Mikhail Gorobchenko (Dnepr) – 8.5 points, 7.5 assists, 3.0 steals, 3.0 rebounds (PE 18.5)
Alexander Peacock (Krivbass) – 15.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists (PE 24.0)
Vladimir Konev (Dnepr) – 15.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists (PE 20.0)
Tarig Eisa (Zaporozhye) – 19.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 2.5 steals (PE 15.5)
Yaroslav Karpyuk (Kyiv-Sepet) – 15 points, 13 rebounds, 2 steals (PE 23)
Dnepr forward was chosen as the MVP of the tour Vladimir Konev. The leader of the Ukrainian champions helped his team to two confident victories in Nikolaev. He recorded 13 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists (RE 16) in the match against Niko-Basket (96:56) and 18 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists (RE 24) against Kryvbas (77:58). In these two games, Vladimir showed high efficiency in attack, converting 7 out of 11 three-point shots and 4 out of 6 two-point shots.
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