The basketball players of USK Prague can celebrate a record 257th consecutive victory in the league
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| photo: FIBA / ZVVZ USK Prague
That series is understandably nice. The main recipe is our motivation. I have games that you want to win and it doesn’t matter if you play in the Horn Doln or the Euroleague. Just want to win. Mme types who are soutiv. That’s the essence of it, trainer Natlia Hejkov told the newspaper.
The last time the Czech champions lost in the highest match was on April 30, 2013, when they lost to Brno (then IMOS Brno) 72:73 during the Finnish series in the Folimanka hall. Since then, they have reigned supreme for ten years without a hitch.
I remember it very long. In that series, we led 2:0 on saves and the first two games were quite simple. In tetm, the players underestimated it a bit. They sat on their suitcases and had to buy a ticket home on the same day, so we had to book, said Hejkov.
Gambrinus Brno’s streak of 256 games without a loss lasted from November 1998 to November 2007 and was punctuated by two losses against USK. Praanky equaled it last week at Ostrava, where they won clearly 102:38.
We started to realize this when they reminded us that we had about six lives left. We never thought about it before. Only at the beginning of the season we had a lot of sick games and there was a threat that we wouldn’t be able to play with anyone. But it would be cool if we drank to a hit with ten teenage girls. The Czech Basketball Federation was reasonable and postponed the rescue, said Hejkov.
In the first international match of the season, USK won 105:60 against Slovanky, and led 41:18 after the first quarter. He goes for a clear answer this time as well. While the defending champion Pekanal from eleven league duels crossed the one-hundred-point mark, the Slovaks fifth with a balance of two wins and eleven losses in the penultimate nine places.
This series is really great and I’m glad I’ve been with it for nine years. But it will be a rescue like any other. It is an obligation to win and enter that era, said the player Tereza Vyoralov.
In the men’s domestic competition, the record holder is the eight-time champion Nymburk. His longest streak of invincibility was only 93 duels.