Friendly match. “Efes Pilsen” – BC Khimki10 april 2008
Between matches in Russian Championship there is a pause. Bc Khimki decided to go to Turkey for playing friendly matches. On Wednesday, 9th of April, our team played agaist one of the leader of Turkish championship – “Efes Pilsen” and lost — 70-74 (16-22, 24-8, 14-22, 16-22). The top scorer became Daniel Ewing (16).
-We need the game practice. Next match we will play only on 15th of April with “Universitet-Yougra”. – said the head coach Kestutis Kemzura. – We decided to play with “Efes” when David Blatt was the head coach. We wanted to play more than one match and choose other team from Istanbul “Alpella”. In match against “Efes” Rannikko, Lampe and Wilkinson didn’t play. It was test match, we hadn’t the goal – to win. We have others playing tasks.