Ukraine and The Czar

In September, Ukraine will join 23 basketball teams in Slovenia to compete in EuroBasket 2013 in hopes of qualifying for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. The road to success in the talent-packed tournament will be arduous. Our first mission was getting our guys back into shape after the postseason break through rigorous strength and conditioning workouts. We got our feet wet with some exhibition games in Slovenia over the weekend, and now our team has returned to Kiev for ten days to prepare for a four-team tourney including Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia that will take place in Serbia next week.