Prometey Slobozhanske (6-6) is aiming to bounce back from last week's heartbreaking loss in London and protect its precarious position in the playoff zone with a visit from Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (0-12), the competition's only winless team.
Ronen Ginzburg, Prometey: "We need to come ready"
Seasons
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Regular Season
Round 13 of 18
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Prometey is the league's second-best offensive-rebounding team, averaging 12.9 per night - with 3.3 of those coming from the irrepressible Ondrej Balvin. But Cedevita protects its backboard very well, claiming 27.6 defensive rebounds per game, and Karlo Matkovic (12.8 ppg., 6.6 rpg.) will do his best to control Balvin's influence in the paint.
Ronen Ginzburg, Prometey head coach
"We play against a good team that is third in the Adriatic League, where they beat Partizan. In the EuroCup they did no win, but all the results are very close. They are for sure a good team. We need to come ready. It's an important game for us. We need to try to do the best to win this game."
Simone Pianigiani, Cedevita Olimpija head coach
"Even though we are still winless in the EuroCup, we have repeatedly pointed out that we will fight until the last match. In the matches, we play at the same level for the greater part of the game, but at the same time we fight for the highest places in the regional league. Unfortunately, the match is again coming at an unfavorable moment for us. We will be without two players. We will be playing without DJ Stewart and Luka Ščuka, who are ill and cannot travel with us, so we will be playing with seven players of the senior squad with the addition of three younger players. No matter what, we will do our best. Prometey is a very good team that likes to play fast basketball, and we will have to show the best possible performance with a limited number of players."
Oleksandr Lypovyy, Prometey forward
"We face Cedevita which is in the last place, but it does not mean nothing because they lose every game by a few points. That team is very competitive. In the first game Justin Cobbs did not play against us, and now the team is much better with him. We need to focus on their guards, Blazic, Stewart and Cobbs. They have athletic big guy Matkovic, who is one of the best rebounders in the league. We need to focus on this game because it's an important game for us and we need to take this win at home."
Nikola Radicevic, Cedevita Olimpija player
"We have another test in the EuroCup ahead of us, which we are going to with a changed lineup due to problems. We will try to put on a good performance in Riga, but we will face a team that has changed the composition of the team considerably compared to the first match. Our rivals play fast basketball. We will have to fight to the best of our ability, give our best, and at the same time try to win on the away court."