OUR OPPONENT

BC KRASNYI OKTYABR (VOLGOGRAD, RUSSIA)

Founded in 2012
Team colors: white and red
Arena: Volgograds' Trade unions Palace of Sports (capacity – 3700)
President: Dmitry Gerasimenko
Official website: www.bcredoctober.com

Rimas Kurtinaitis, BC Khimki head coach:

— Despite the fact that Krasnyi Oktyabr is a VTB United League rookie, they play well. Moreover, before the new year they were reinforced by another American guy. It's a good and interesting team, and we need to play against them at our full capacity. Of course, we are considered to be favorites, as well as we perform at home, but it doesn't give us a big advantage, because a lot depends on the mood, but this is the component of BC Khimki that is pretty good this season. We have to put a lot of effort to win this game. Randy Culpepper is a leader of the team, he is a very interesting in terms of the individual skills player who has already scored more than 40 points in a game this season, but at this position we have strong guards like Vyaltsev, Popovic, Koponen and Green, who are able to stop any other player, not only Culpepper. Oktyabr is always playing at maximum, at full strength, and all honor to them for their effort and fight until the end.