Bulgarian academicians22 october 2013

Today BC Khimki left Moscow Region and headed to Sofia, Bulgaria where on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 it will face Lukoil Academic. It will be second Eurocup group stage game for our team. The beginning of the meeting is at 19.00 msk.

OUR OPPONENT

LUKOIL ACADEMIC SOFIA (BULGARIA)

Founded in 1947
Team colors: white and red
Honors: Bulgarian National League (1957-1959, 1963, 1968-1973, 1975, 1976, 2003-2013), Bulgarian National Cup (1952, 1954, 2002-2004, 2006-2008, 2011-2013), FIBA European Champions Cup finalist (1958, 1959), EuroChallenge FIBA quarterfinalist (2011)
Arena: Universiada Hall
President: Valentin Zlatev
Official website: www.lukoilacademic.bg

Rimas Kurtinaitis, BC Khimki head coach:

— Our opponent pays attention to defense throughout all the game and makes it pretty tough. There are good players like Filip Videnov, who has good shot and Davin White, who scored a lot in penetration. Like in our previous game with BC Krasny Oktyabr in VTB United League we should neutralize "small" players of our opponent. We had no time to prepare for this game as we came back from Volgograd on Monday. Nevertheless we are determined, excited and ready to fight as we are targeted at winning this game.