Probably the last match in the Czech basketball team was played by the winger Kateřina Elhotová. The 31-year-old world vice-champion from 2010 plans to take care of the family and longs to have a second child with her four-year-old son Daniel.
It is in the circle of loved ones that it will be best to absorb the disappointment from the third elimination in the basic group of the European Championship in a row and three defeats from three performances at the tournament.
“I’m finishing. Now I have a path set up that I’ll want another child, so it’s hard to imagine that I’ll ever play in the national team again. Anyway, never say never. At the club level, I’m done at USK after this season and I’m going to want to work now. family, “Elhotová said after today’s defeat with Croatia 56:84.
An unsuccessful tournament after a season influenced by the covid and stays in closed “bubbles” will want to get out of your mind quickly. “I already perceive basketball a little differently, my priorities have shifted now, the choir now that we’re done. I take it that each end is a new beginning, and I’m looking forward to what will happen to me in the future,” Elhotová said.
Participants in eight European Championships and two Olympic Games are no longer fighting for a third start at the World Championships. The first six of the European Championships in Strasbourg and Valencia will play for the tournament next year in Australia in qualifying, the Czechs could keep their chance only by success in a direct battle for third place in the group and advance to the qualifying playoffs with Croatia.
Elhot thought about the reason for the high loss in the key duel. “It was probably because we were already completely exhausted after the two very demanding matches (with Russia and France) and also with a quality opponent (France), who will probably reach the top. Tonight, the Croats probably wanted more tonight,” she said. Elhotová.
“I’d say they played the same thing they did in previous matches. Aperture, raid and kick on a three or a shot just behind the aperture at three. I can’t say they were surprised. But we looked surprised and they gave the baskets,” said Elhot.
The Croatians definitely knocked down the Czech team in the start of the second half, where they escaped from the lead by nine points to a twenty-point difference. “The third quarter was mentally demanding. We went into it at half-time, saying that it is nine points and we will want to catch up. Then they bounced back to 30 points, which is unbelievable from my point of view. I think it was tonight. “We could or should have put more into it,” said the four-time Czech basketball player of the year.
In addition to Elhotová, captain Romana Hejdová, Renáta Březinová and Alena Hanušová also spoke about the end of the national team career after the European Championships. And Elhot would like the next generation to be successful again. “I would very much like it to start to have an upward trend, so that the girls who are not won win and we start to have a stable position in the European context. I can’t say how long it will take. It’s hard to judge right now after the match, I very tired, “Elhotova added.
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