Opponent in round 3/23: SK Slavia Prague | BK OPAVA
The team was founded in 1943 and in the years 1993 – 1998 it was also active in the highest basketball competition. Last season, he succeeded in the play-off, in which his opponent was Jindřichův Hradec. The people of Prague lost the home match 74:78, but they fought back and after winning 78:64 they made it to the top men’s competition.
Bradley, Park, Aušprunk, Nehyba, Novotný, Kratochvíl and Jan Böhm left after the season, the team was strengthened by power forward Dontae Bruner (USA), his compatriot and quarterback Adam Joseph Dworsky, Slovaks Robert Rožánek and Juraj Páleník and youngsters Vojtěch Sýkora (20 years old). , Martin Kheil and Pavel Benák (both 19 years old).
There are several names in the team connected to Opava. Among the players is, in addition to Juraj Páleník, Pavel Pumprla, who spent two seasons in Opava and is signed under Opava’s promotion back to the top league, and who is the soul of the current Slavia. The coach is Pavel Beneš, one of the “brave seven” from the golden era of Opava basketball.
In the first round, Slavia lost in Brno 79:92 (Rožánek 21, Radek Pumprla 15, Jelínek 14), but in the second round they got a taste when they beat Olomouc at home 81:62. In this match, Juraj Páleník from Exopava scored 18 points, 15 were added by Robert Rožánek, who is the best scorer of the Prague team so far. The warning should be that Slavia had 23 offensive rebounds with Olomouc.
However, our basketball players are in good shape after the win in Cologne and will certainly not underestimate anything. The unpleasant thing is that Filip Zbránek joined the marauders Roső Dragoun and Kryštof Kavan in Kolín, and the start of Dontay Bassett, who has had an ankle problem since the game with Nymburk, is also uncertain.
“We want to follow up on the victory in Kolín. Slavia has already shown its strength in the preparation at the beginning of the KNBL and continues to perform well. We are in a reduced lineup due to injuries, but we must win and we must not underestimate any opponent. Next week we play the first game of the FIBA Cup, we want to attract the audience to this match with our performance,” Petr Czudek believes in winning.
Kuba Slavík awaits a difficult match: “After a narrow loss to Nymburk and a narrow victory in Kolín, we are in the role of favourites. However, Slavia was able to clearly defeat Olomouc and we must not underestimate them. The opponent is in a rookie euphoria and it gives him strength.”
But our basketball players can rely on the best audience in the country and believe that with its help they will claim their second win. Kooperativa NBL third round match BK Opava – SK Slavia Prague is playing on Saturday 8 October 2022it starts in the traditional ones 6:00 p.m.