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Prometheus-Hamburg. Prediction and announcement for the European Cup match
The meeting between Prometheus and Hamburg will take place in Riga on Wednesday, October 4. The match will start at 19.00 Kyiv time.
Today Slobozhansky “Prometheus” will open a new European Cup season. The Titans will make their second consecutive appearance in the European Cup, the second highest tournament in the hierarchy of European basketball club tournaments (albeit with a slight advantage over the FIBA Champions League).
Last season, the Ukrainian club became the main excitement of this tournament and managed to reach the semi-finals in its first draw. In the new season 2023/2024 this will be even more difficult, because the number of great teams has increased compared to last year, the opponents will be more serious about Prometheus than before, and the tournament structure has also become a little more complicated. .
Twenty clubs, divided into two sub-groups, will participate in the European Cup. According to the draw, the “giants” will be in Group A and their opponents will be: “Beşiktaş” (Turkey), “Hamburg” (Germany), “Venice” (Italy), “Wolves” (Lithuania), “Joventut” (Spain). , London Lions (Great Britain), Paris (France), Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel) and Cedevita Olimpia (Slovenia).After a very long regular season of eighteen rounds, the best six teams from each top ten (last season eight teams) In addition, the top two clubs from each group will immediately advance to the quarter-finals, and the third to sixth placed participants will compete in additional qualifying matches. The champion, and in some cases the European Cup finalist, will be the winner of the strongest club tournament in the Old World It is worth noting that he will buy a ticket to the Euroleague, which is very difficult to participate in.
The first opponent of Ronen Ginsburg’s team on such a long game path will be the German “Hamburg”. Hamburg Towers basketball club (that’s the full name of the team) is a fairly young team. It was founded in 2013 and has been a member of the elite German league since the 2019/2020 season. And if “Hamburg” could not consider itself advantageous in the first year of being among the best (seventeenth place in the final), in the next two seasons the team from seventh place entered the play-offs and stopped its progress in the tournament at the quarter-final stage. However, Prometheus’ rival had a very poor last Bundesliga, finishing fifteenth out of a possible eighteen and as the season progressed he thought more about maintaining his place among the elite of German basketball than about the play-offs.
This season will be Hamburg’s third consecutive season in the European Cup. The Germans have twice previously finished bottom of the play-off zone in the group stage (2021/2022 season – seventh place, 2022/2023 – eighth place) and were then immediately eliminated in the first round of the post-season. It is worth noting that in the last draw, Prometheus and Hamburg’s tournament paths crossed at the 1/8 final stage. Slobozhan team defeated its opponent 87:79 in the match played in Riga on April 11, which left no room for error, and ended the German club’s European Cup struggle.
Before the new season, Prometheus’ rival team updated its roster by about half. The changes mainly affected the foreign part of the squad. As of last season, only American defender Seth Heinrich remained in Hamburg. Among the most notable transfers, it is worth highlighting the big man Alexander Dzewa, one of the leaders of the Polish Slask, as well as the American defender Mark Hughes, who played quite successfully in the Spanish second division for Estudiantes last year. Key players from the German half of the team also continue to play for Hamburg; big man Jonas Wohlfahrt-Bottermann (EuroBasket 2022 bronze medalist) and forward Lukas Meissner.
Hamburg didn’t start the season in the worst way. The team played 3 matches before and won two of them. In the first match of the new playing year (twenty-fourth September), Prometheus’ opponent in the first round of the German Cup beat second league Dresden 88:85, after which Hamburg made a successful start to the Bundesliga with a score of 13-0 . Away win in a match where Ludwigsburg was very strong – 87:79. However, it did not take long for the first defeat to come. In the second round of the local championship, Hamburg lost at home to Würzburg, 58:88.
Unlike the German club, Prometheus have only played one official match so far. Last Saturday the “giants” started the LEBL with a crushing victory of 106:61 against the Estonian “Viimsi”. Ronen Ginzburg’s team gives the impression of being well-prepared and seriously equipped, but they continue to struggle with a problem dating back to last season: an abnormally high number of injuries. Suffice it to say that most of the club’s basketball players have suffered various injuries lately, and Lithuanian Arnoldas Kulboka is completely out of the squad until the end of the season, without playing a single official match with the Ukrainian team.
For Prometheus, the Hamburg match will be the first serious test of the new season. In terms of composition, the Slobozhans look objectively stronger, but the fact that the Titans partially collapsed in the off-season due to multiple injuries of players, the loss of the profile sniper and the factor of the start of the season, which always favors unexpected results, makes them stronger. Today’s meeting is very interesting. We hope that there will be no sensations and Prometheus will successfully open a new page in the history of the club and finish its first match in the 2023/2024 European Cup with a confident victory.
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President of the Zaporozhye Regional Basketball Federation Valery Elkinson Summarized the results of the first part of the season for BC Zaporozhye.
– Valery, at the beginning of the season you made predictions about BC Zaporozhye’s performance in the Super League and the Ukrainian Cup. The second round is already underway. Are you happy with the results?
– Yes, I am satisfied. Many experts predicted that we would be ninth or tenth, but we need work, system and team for the result. We have a very small staff: club president Viktor Stelmakov, chief accountant Tatyana Kozachenko and media director Roman Polyachenko. These people have been working for the benefit of Zaporizhzhya basketball for years, and thanks to this, we achieved the current result.
– Which matches did you like the most? Where did the team perform at its best?
– First of all, both matches will be played against Kharkov Falcons. Unfortunately, we lost the first match in overtime and won the second match by one point. These are important matches as the opponent’s head coach is our former mentor Valery Plekhanov. The matches were quite challenging and interesting.
– What about the matches against Dnepr?
– “Dnepr” is the leader of the championship today and so far it is difficult for us to fight with them. Our main duty now is to protect basketball in such difficult times. We plan to compete for medals in the future as well. We have a common dream with the city and regional authorities: to return the European Cup of basketball to Zaporozhye.
– How do you evaluate the role of American legionnaires in BC Zaporozhye?
– The team has a very good microclimate, foreign players are very well integrated into the team. They are the leaders of the team today. At the same time, you must understand that times are difficult and communicating with strangers in such conditions is a particular challenge. But despite all the difficulties, the team works in unity and produces results.
Captain Anton Buts plays a big role; He is a leader not only on the field, but also in the locker room, helping young people and communicating with foreign players.
– Anton Buts plays a very consistent game. Was he given any special assignments?
– Anton has been in our club for many years and is playing better every season. He has a strong character and he shows it in his matches. He manages the team; This is very important.
– How do young people express themselves?
– We are satisfied. Ilya Lishchina is our student who returned home after studying on the Dnieper. Vyacheslav Kiktev is a hardworking player, although there are some difficulties. We also signed another student, Alexander Petrenko, which allowed us to expand our squad.
– Where is it more difficult to play; In the Super League or the Ukrainian Cup?
– These are different tournaments. It is a cup elimination match. For years we had no luck in the draw; We reached Dnepr early. This year the draw was more favorable and for the first time in ten years BC Zaporozhye advanced to the Final Four. In the cup, everything is decided by a single match, while in the championship, the distance is longer.
– How do you evaluate the work of head coach Dmitry Shchiglinsky?
– Dmitry actively participated in the formation of the team, has his own vision of the game and tactics. We can say that he did the right thing with the choice of actors, including foreign actors. We try to create conditions where the team can work safely despite all the difficulties.
Source: Sport UA
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Krasnodar Lokomotiv-Kuban defeated Saratov Avtodor in a home match of the VTB United League regular season.
The meeting ended with a score of 88:65 (19:17, 29:16, 22:20, 18:12). At Avtodor, Alen Hadzhibegovic from Avtodor scored a double-double (26 points and 17 rebounds). For Krasnodar, Jeremiah Martin scored the most points – 25.
Lokomotiv-Kuban (12 wins and 6 losses) is third in the standings, Avtodor (4–15) is 10th.
Watch live broadcasts of VTB United League matches on the television channels of the Match holding company, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source: Sportbox
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The Euroleague match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Paris, which was planned to be played on Friday, January 9 at 20:00, will be postponed again.
The Reds had previously made an official request to the Euroleague management regarding this issue, and it is expected to be announced in the coming days.
The match will probably not be played on Friday evening and will be played around the February break for the national teams.
Hapoel management is unhappy with the behavior of the French club and its owner David Kahn. They claim that Paris refused to fly a connecting flight to Israel.
According to Euroleague rules, in double-header weeks, each team must reach the match arena by direct flight or travel no more than one and a half hours. However, the French refuse to attend the match on the grounds that it is against the regulations, as they will be playing in Türkiye, where there has been no direct flight to Israel since October 7.
Hapoel Tel Aviv also said that Paris refused to fly via Cyprus, which would ultimately lead to the postponement of the game.
In the statement made by the club, “Paris owner David Kahn insists on a direct flight to Israel, which is not possible from Türkiye. He is doing everything possible to avoid coming to Israel.”
Previously, there was news that there was a flu epidemic in one of Europe’s leading clubs.
Source: Sport UA
Ralph Bean is a writer for Sportish. Ralph has written about sports news for the last two years, and is currently an author on the site. He enjoys writing about sports, and hopes to cover more stories in the future.
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