Tomorrow, the wards of Dmitry Ivanov will hold the second match of the Super League Home Games against the Yekaterinburg Urals.
Preview to the match: Ufimets – Ural
Tomorrow, the wards of Dmitry Ivanov will hold the second match of the Super League Home Games against the Yekaterinburg Urals.
Tomorrow, the wards of Dmitry Ivanov will hold the second match of the Super League Home Games against the Yekaterinburg Urals.
History of meetings
At the moment, the teams have held two matches – both fell on the pre -season tournament in Izhevsk. In 2018, “Ufimets” (94:90) turned out to be stronger, and in 2019 “Ural” (77:72). Thus, the match in Ufa will be the first official confrontation of the teams.
Photo: press service of BC Ural (Yekaterinburg)
Coaching castling
Before the start of the new season, Ural intensified noticeably. The Yekaterinburg club invited the head coach of the Estonian specialist Alara Varrak. Behind the mentor had experience in the Estonian national team, as well as in the Unified VTB league as the head coach of the Kalev club. But the start of the Ural season failed, won from six only one match and Warrah was resigned.
Photo: press service of BC Ural (Yekaterinburg)
The Estonian specialist was already replaced by Russian coach Mikhail Karpenko. It is interesting that shortly before the arrival of the Urals, Karpenko was fired from the post of head coach of another Yekaterinburg club Uralmash. At the time of the resignation, Uralmash lost three matches in a row. Under the leadership of Mikhail Vladimirovich, Ural has already held one game and lost to the leader of the Samara championship.
Photo: press service of BC Uralmash (Yekaterinburg)
Newcomers
In the offseason, the team signed 7 newcomers.
Legioner James White. He graduated from Georgia state University, for which he played 5 seasons in NCAA. Last season he moved to Europe. In the 2018/19 season, he held 28 games in the Bulgaria championship for the Beroy club – on average, for the match he scored 10.7 points and made 5, 7 selection.
Photo: press service of BC Ural (Yekaterinburg)
The 5-time champion of Belarus, the central Tsmoki-Minsk Alexander Semenyuk, strengthened the team. His assets have three seasons in the Unified VTB League and a performance for the Belarusian national team since 2014.
Photo: press service of BC Ural (Yekaterinburg)
The ex-captain of the Army Youth, three-time champion of the United Youth League VTB, the best playing the “finals of the eight-2016”, the best defender of the VTB EML in 2017, a participant in the three championships of Europe as part of the Russian teams of different ages, Alexander Gavrilov, moved to the Urals.
Photo: press service of BC Ural (Yekaterinburg)
He returned to Yekaterinburg after the season in the St. Petersburg Spartak Champion Super League (2014/15) and the holder of the Russian Cup (2014/15) Pavel Alexandrov. In Yekaterinburg, he performed in the 2017/2018 season.
Photo: press service of BC Ural (Yekaterinburg)
Another amplification from the Unified VTB League is Arthurs Auseis. The attacking defender was born in Latvia, held more than 80 games in the Baltic basketball league, performed in the Lithuanian Championship and in the Unified VTB league in the 2018/19 season as part of the Riga WEF.
Photo: press service of BC Ural (Yekaterinburg)
In the new season, the Urals will also help the champion of Super League-1 season 2018/2019 as part of Samara Artem Chevarenkov and Pavel Afanasyev from Moscow MBA.
Results in the 2019/20 season
Now the team with 8 points takes the last, 16th place, in the standings. Of the 7 matches, “Ural” won 1 game and lost at 6. “Ufimets” with 4 victories in 7 matches approaches a fight on the 9th line of the standings.
Photo: press service of BC Ural (Yekaterinburg)
Leaders
The three leaders in effectiveness are headed by the American newcomer of Urals James White – an average of 15.3 points per game. In second place is another newborn, ex-player of the Riga Vefa Auseis Arthurs-13.6 points. The third Alexander Semenyuk – 10.9 points.
Where and when
The match will take place in the sports complex of the Bashkir State Agrarian University at the address: st. 50th anniversary of October, 34. The beginning of the game “Ufimets”-“Ural” at 19:00. Free admission.
You can follow the progress of the match on the website of the Ufimets basketball club and in the official VKontakte group. The broadcast of the game on the air will also be broadcast on the UTV television channel.
