Dusan ALIMPIJEVIC
Avtodor head coach:
“First of all, I want to congratulate everybody and wish our fans a strong health, all the best and a lot of smiles in the New Year! I want you to see more big wins of Avtodor in 2019.
Now the road game against Tsmoki is expected. It’s very important to show our progress for that two-month period since the home game against them in November. We must demonstrate that we are ready to move into the next level to play basketball of better quality. The players got a couple of days to have a rest for the Christmas holidays after our previous game in December and came back at the club’s disposal being fresh, reloaded and open to receive more information, as well as having new strengths and energy. I’m really happy with that and I hope we will be able to show against Tsmoki all the improvements we reached during our very good practices for the last period. Unfortunately, Ireland most probably will not be available for the game in Minsk because of small leg injury. But I really trust in all other players and I’m certain they will fight not only for themselves but also for Anthony.
Tsmoki Minsk also made some changes in their roster. Moody and Shelton left the club and some new players like Rush were added. Therefore, their style of basketball has also been slightly changed. Now they play better defensively and more as a team then before. But we are also not the same team like we were two months ago. We have to show big level of concentration for the upcoming game in order to grab the win.”