Sprite Girls Vs. BK Kyiv Support Squad

Kyiv's main basketball is called BK Kyiv, and is made up mostly of tall Ukrianian guys, shooting guards and forwards from a variety of Balkan countries, and assorted ex-Division I American guys who couldnt cut it in the NBA. BK Kyiv's roster includes former players from universities such as South Carolina, University of Wyoming, and South Dakota. BK Kyiv's roster is actually quite similar to many other teams in the Ukrainian Super League, and very similar to other teams in the eastern and southern European leagues. BK Kyiv's opponent on that night, some team from Poland, had a similar makeup of their team. Their best player was some guy called Logan who looked a bit like Drew Gooden (maybe it was the bald head and the headband), and who scored nearly 30 points on the night against a sub-standard BK Kyiv team.
The game took place at the Palace of Sport and the capacity was about the size of a large high school gym or small college gym. The crowd was a bit subdued at the beginning of the game (as opposed to the soccer games I've witnessed), but got a little more into things as the game progressed and the Kyiv team continued to make boneheaded plays. Behind one end, there was a small band of die-hard supporters with drums, horns, scarves, and Kyiv shirts. Right in front of the supporter section was a group of 6 girls dressed in Sprite shirts and short green skirts with long green leggings. Before the game, we had watched the Sprite girls danced while a local guy paid by Sprite rapped about the merits of Sprite in Russian. Not surprisingly, the Sprite girls had very little rhythm and hadnt seemed to practice the "Sprite sway" for more than a few minutes before the game. On the other hand, the BK Kyiv support squad had practiced quite a bit. Most Ukrainian basketball teams have support squad, which is the cheerleading squad. The BK Kyiv support squad appeared during every time out and break between periods in progressively more provocative outfits to entertain the crowd. I began to think the Sprite girls might be the JV squad, training to be a real BK Kyiv cheerleader. But its hard to say. In any case, the BK Kyiv cheerleaders were the second most impressive sight of the night, after the BK Kyiv mascot, lets call him "Wolfie." Thats not an exact translation, but close. Wolfie is a wolf with sunglasses who wears a BK uniform, and who excelled at doing several back and front flips in a row during each break.