pre-season pill

Gazprom-Ugra traditionally has a hard time entering the playing season. It is difficult to judge the internal state of rivals at the Platonov Memorial, but quite characteristic, that two major league "A" teams made it to the semi-finals, and Yaroslavl won at all. Who is a little better prepared - that and slippers.

In such tournaments, everyone solves their own internal tasks., but no one canceled the desire to win: everyone fought to the best of their ability. Eighth place in this context looks like, of course, not very optimistic. On the other hand, I will express a paradoxical thought - in this particular case, it is better for the team, than finishing fifth or sixth.

Could Gazprom-Ugra rise higher? Two lost tie-breaks to CSKA and Ural say, that could. In the match with Dynamo-LO for the seventh place, of course, tiredness affected: the day before, the Surgut team were the last to leave the gym after five intense sets and were the first to enter the court the next day. As a result, a peppy start and won the first set naturally turned into three “donuts”, and the team ended the game in a long-forgotten formation with two setters on the court.

Friendly tournaments exist for, to take advantage of them, not looking at the result. In St. Petersburg, all the players received a certain load, coaching staff, in turn, received material for analysis. But the lack of victories should give us an additional bonus called sports anger.. Any other finish would have passed in a calm, as they say, working atmosphere, but not this one.

And sports anger must be transformed into an additional incentive for the most fruitful preparation for the season.. Train with a tripled desire and need to rehabilitate in the already official matches of the Russian Cup, who are waiting for us in September. In this sense, the result of the Platonov Memorial, I find, extremely useful, though painful. Well, almost all pills are bitter. the main thing, to help.