Officially we are working!

August 20 was actually just the official date. Many basketball players have been working in Krylatskoye since the beginning of the month, and the last vacationers arrived in Moscow this week. Normally, coaches would start with a beep-test for the whole team to assess the fitness level, but this year, due to the early availability of the vast majority of players, all testing was also done well in advance.

Therefore, the first training day was held in a standard two-practices mode: in the morning the team worked out in the weightlifting gym and individually on the court, and in the evening they had an intensive basketball session. The players were still running with no tapes - the coaching staff will move to three-on-three and five-on-five in the coming days.

In order to ensure normal sparrings, additional efforts had to be made. After all, Emil Rajkovic has only nine people from the main team at his disposal so far – Nikola Milutinov and Dejan Davidovac are now defending the colors of the Serbian National Team, while Aleksey Shved continues his recovery after surgery on his hand. Therefore, the youth players Anton Kardanakhishvili and Dmitry Khalturin are now working with the main team, as well as the experienced free agent big men Pavel Antipov and Andrey Desyatnikov.

The next week's schedule assumes the continuation of an intensive training camp with a single day off. On August 30, in the Basket Hall training hall, the red-blues will play the first friendly game against Uralmash without spectators. Further, of course, the number of pre-season meetings will only increase.