MIES (Switzerland) - Only three of the clubs that will battle it out for the 2020-21 Basketball Champions League title have taken part in all five editions of the competition so far - ERA Nymburk, Lenovo Tenerife and SIG Strasbourg - and the latter two were drawn together in the first Quarter-Final.

This longevity and consistency might sound like a detail, yet it is important enough to be the first thing that crossed Lenovo Tenerife head coach Txus Vidorreta's mind upon hearing the draw result on Friday.

"The truth is I know Strasbourg very well as a club, but not so much as a team this season," Vidorreta commented, immediately after completing Tenerife's training session that was taking place at exact the same time as the draw.

"They are a historical club in the BCL, like ourselves. Their qualification to the Final 8 has tremendous merit because they started off the Play-Offs with three defeats and then they won three straight games and eliminated a former champion, in AEK Athens.

"They will be a complicated rival because of their great history in this competition and because of the fact that their morale will be very high, exactly because of their three-game win streak in the Play-Offs.

"We have several ACB games until the Final 8 and we will try to arrive there at the best possible condition.

"For us, being able to compete once again in the Final 8 is a great satisfaction and a reward for our work, but we have to try to win, to at least make the first step and win the first knock-out game," the Tenerife head coach concluded.

Strangely enough, Tenerife and Strasbourg have only crossed paths once during all these years, in the Regular Season of the inaugural BCL edition, which of course ended with the Spanish yellow-blacks, with Vidorreta as their head coach, at the top of the podium.

"At this moment, and if we take into account their win percentage, Strasbourg are the third-placed team in the French league standings," said Tenerife General Manager Aniano Cabrera.

"Their core of the team is formed by Ishmail Wainright, Bonzie Colson, and Brandon Jefferson, American players with a lot of European experience. Jaromir Bohacik who is of course a Czech international whom we know very well because we played against him when he was at Nymburk, and Yannis Morin who is a very capable frontcourt player who has also played for the French national team.

"Their Finnish head coach, Lassi Tuovi, started out as an assistant and then took the reins of the team midway through last season, so they maintain a lot of the same ideas as a team and they have worked on them.

"I think they are doing a great job in that, and it's indicative that they started the Play-Offs on 0-3 and then won three straight to reach the Final 8.

"We are in the Final 8, it is a knock-out game, and judging from our experience in the previous BCL season-ending tournaments and in the Spanish Copa del Rey, the actual opponent is not as important as making sure we are in the best possible condition on the day of the game."