OUR OPPONENT

LIETUVOS RYTAS VILNIUS (LITHUANIA)

Founded in 1997
Team colors: black, white and red
Honors: EuroCup (2005, 2009), Lithuanian Championship (2000, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010), Lithuanian Cup (1998, 2009, 2010), Baltic Basketball League (2006, 2007, 2009), BBL Presidents Cup (2008), VTB United League bronze (2012), King Mindaugas Cup (2016)
Arena: Siemens Arena (capacity – 11000)
President: Gedvydas Vainauskas
Official website: bc.lrytas.lt

Where to watch
LIVE: Match! Igra (19:25, replay — 23:20; October 13 at 06:00, 12:20, 18:05), Sportbox.ru
Text online: EuroCup website

PRE-GAME QUOTES

Dusko Ivanovic, BC Khimki head coach:

“Lietuvos Rytas is a very strong team that has really good roster. They have one exceptional player in David Logan who can score 30 points easily. The structure of the team is also very good. They play very hard inside the zone. It will be a very tough game for us. Along with Zalgiris Lietuvos Rytas is the second best team in Lithuania and they have good rivalry history. They have played good game lately and despite Lietuvos loss, they did well because Zalgiris is a EuroLeague team. We had bad game on Saturday and now look for a win. I hope that we’ll do it better”.

Nobel Boungou-Colo, BC Khimki forward:

“It’s an important game to win. It’s our first EuroCup game and it will be different from the VTB match. We need to start well in this competition. Lietuvos Rytas is a good team and in the EuroCup there will be no easy games. We have to play hard in defense the entire game and do it as well as we can. We need to improve our defense and do what the coach asks for. It’s another step we have to change to be better. The team feels good and wants to win”.