Until recently, European basketball did not recognize Promitei from Ukraine.
The reason: the group just came out of nowhere.
Only in 2018 was it established, and last season it already won the local championship.
This season she is participating for the first time in a European factory, the Champions League, and has already qualified from the qualifying round to the home stage - and also succeeded.
Tomorrow she will meet Hapoel Jerusalem in the opening of the play-in series, for the right to reach the top 16.
Promitey was founded by Jewish businessman Vladimir Dubinsky, who wants to promote the team to the European Basketball Center.
He entrusted coach Nano Ginzburg with the project, giving him a long-term contract.
According to the plans, what we have seen so far from the group is just the beginning.
The story of the rise of the Ukrainian champions (balance 0:22 in the league this season) is one of the most intriguing in Europe.
It is better for Jerusalem not to celebrate too much despite the homeliness and despite the huge advantage the club has in terms of European experience.
She is facing an encounter with a high-quality and very hungry opponent, who has quite a few tools in her hands, among them some that we know well.
DiAngelo Harrison.
Knows Israeli basketball well,
The team includes four players who played in the Israeli league: above them all is Diangelo Harrison (ex Gilboa / Galil and Maccabi Rishon LeZion). He is the main player and the main executor with 18 points and 41 percent in the Champions League. Ness Ziona and Maccabi Haifa), DJ Kennedy (Hapoel Holon) and Sean Evans, who played for a short time at Hapoel Eilat.
The Israeli coach is doing a great job there, adding more achievements and titles to his long line since he went on to coach abroad. To remind you, only last summer did he record a career high, with the Czech Republic arriving at the Tokyo Olympics. "Jerusalem is a very strong team.
I know very well what the balance of power is, of course they are favorites, first of all thanks to the home advantage, "says Ginzburg," it is no coincidence that they fought not to fall in front of Tenerife without home, to meet us with that advantage. "
Will the fact that you are an inexperienced club in European factories be a factor?
"In terms of the players no, in terms of the club yes. We have quite a few experienced players on the staff, who have gone through quite a few in European factories. We have some foreigners who played in Israel, which means they know what it is like to play in Jerusalem. On the other hand, everything is new."
While Jerusalem has a distinct homeliness, the Ukrainian group has a problem in this regard.
In the European Cup they are not allowed to play in their home hall in the city of Dnipro, and are forced to migrate about an hour and a half from there, to the city of Jaffrozia.
"The fact that we will not play in our home hall is definitely a problem," Ginzburg says.
Nano Ginzburg, Photo: Champions League website
You will not be satisfied with your achievement so far.
'It is definitely a great achievement for the club and the crowd.
First time in the European factories, and we both got out of the qualifiers and also went through a not-so-simple early home.
We lost to a leading club like Tenerife twice on the edge of a basket.
We certainly reached an achievement, but with food comes appetite. "
Are you surprised by the achievements of Yotam Halperin, who out of nowhere started this season a coaching career?
"Not surprised. He did not come from the moon. He was a great player, playing at the highest levels and training with great coaches. He does a great job."
Halperin replaced Oren Amiel, who was Ginzburg's assistant at Nymburk for five years, and is also his close friend.
Nano: "I still think Jerusalem made a good choice, but Oren got into 'Bad Luck' with the team's high. Without highs - you can not win games. However, it should be remembered that Oren Amiel brought to Jerusalem three guards at a very high level, defensive Obasuhan "He is a Euroleague player. The Jerusalem guard trio (Obasuhan, Adams and Kilpatrick) is the strongest in the Champions League."
It will not hurt Amiel's career?
'What happened to Oren is something every coach goes through.
All for the best.
He came to a good place (in German Bamberg), a place that many coaches would like to go to.
What was did not hurt his name.
In the end, I think this move worked out well for both parties. "
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