Tahir Bakhshiyev: "We are in constant talks with the management, I am currently continuing my activities in the national team."

We are in constant talks with the management, we meet at the federation, and for now I continue my work in the national team. Tahir Bakhshiyev, the head coach of the Azerbaijani national men's basketball team, said this in an interview with "Report". The specialist spoke about the team's performance in the European zone qualifying round of the world championship: "Our team had not participated in international tournaments for a long time. Endar Poladkhanli is 26 years old, but he was participating in a European competition for the first time. He is one of the leading members of the team. In the Azerbaijan Basketball League, sometimes American basketball players take over the game. There are also players who play better than ours. But there can be one foreign player in the team. They have to build the game themselves. Everything comes from experience. There are many young children in the team. There is little time to work. We would like to hold more training camps with the team. We gather a week in advance. They can't make that many changes. When I meet with the kids, I also tell them that they have to work a lot on themselves to get better results." Tahir Bakhshiyev, the head coach of NTD, briefly spoke about his team's performance in the Azerbaijan Basketball League: "The main reason we couldn't make it to the play-offs was fatigue. We won the cup, there was little time between the semi-final games. Last year, "Neftchi" won the cup, and at that time they could not make it to the play-offs either. Of course, injuries also took their toll. We had a chance, we didn't play badly against "Absheron". But the speed seemed low. It didn't work out for us this time."