Pre-game quotes #BCKhimki #PAOK Rimas Kurtinaitis, BC Khimki head coach: PAOK plays well at the moment and it’s great we won in Greece. They beat Panathinaikos in the beginning of January and AGOR a couple of days ago in the local league that speaks about their power. Our opponent is stable and shows good basketball right now. Probably it’s not an easy thing to play twice again the same rival but it’s about schedule and we have to maintain our goals. PAOK has discipline and individually strong players like Langford and Carter who delivered a lot of problems in the last game. Another important moment is that we managed to suppress Bremer who is a great player. In that game he scored 0 points in 20 minutes. So we expect a tough game. Hopefully we’ll hold our plan and win this game. Petteri Koponen, BC Khimki guard: It’s good we won in Greece a week ago because it’s not easy to score an away win generally. We did a good job and achieved a nice result so we have to keep going in achieving our goals. I suppose it will be again a tough and hard game and we need to be ready for it. We have just come from Tallinn and had only two days to prepare for PAOK. It’s going to be a real fight and we need to protect our home court. PAOK has a lot of good players, for example, Langford who performs at positions four and five. He can shoot outside and play inside, he is dangerous. Also the team has many good shooters. We have to play hard defensively and maintain our fast breaks. The main thing is to keep our defense. Our group is pretty balanced that’s why it was very important to take an away win that we had done in Thessaloniki. So if we win at home we will be in a good place in the group.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:15:24 +0000