A needed MoraBanc Andorra tests Valencia Basket's streak at La Fonteta

Valencia Basket chains its fourth home game in a row to host MoraBanc Andorra (Saturday 30, 6:00 p.m., Fonteta, Movistar Deportes 2) in a game corresponding to the Liga Endesa round 31.

 

With both teams qualified to play the 7DAYS EuroCup semifinals next week, the taronja squad will try to stop the improvement of the Andorran team after the change of coach to add a win that, in addition to being a very important step towards guaranteeing the position in the Top4 of the Endesa League at the end of the Regular Season, would keep open a streak that is already more than four months without losing at La Fonteta and fifteen consecutive home wins.

 

The taronja team will have two absences in the guards rotation in this game. Point guard Martin Hermannsson will miss this game due to an overload in his right calf, while forward Josep Puerto will continue to be sidelined due to a sprain in his right ankle that already prevented him from participating in the interweekly game against Boulogne Metropolitans 92. Coach Peñarroya will have shooting guard Olivier Hanlan on the roster, who in the Endesa League games takes the place of the long-term injured Klemen Prepelic.

 

Although the precedents at La Fonteta are very favorable (9-1 in favor of Valencia Basket, a streak of eight wins in a row against this rival at home and more than 27 years since the last victory of the team from the Principality at La Fonteta), the team Taronja is fully aware that necessity makes MoraBanc Andorra very dangerous, improving its defensive performance to chain three victories before its visit to our gym.

 

Valencia Basket currently occupies fourth position in the Endesa League, with a balance of 20-10.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Neno Dimitrijevic

Macedonia del N.

Base

1.90

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.05

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

21

Olivier Hanlan

Canadá

Escolta

1.93

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

99

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

PLANTILLA MORABANC ANDORRA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Codi Miller-McIntyre

EE.UU

Escolta

1.91

3

Oriol Paulí

España

Alero

2.01

5

Yannick Franke

Países Bajos

Escolta

1.96

7

Tunde Olumuyima

Sierra Leona

Pívot

2.03

9

Nacho Llovet

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

10

TJ Clyne

EE.UU/Israel

Ala-pívot

2.06

11

Clevin Hannah

EE.UU/Senegal

Base

1.79

21

Moussa Diagne

Senegal

Pívot

2.11

22

Drew Crawford

EE.UU

Alero

1.96

24

Guillem Colom

Andorra

Base

1.95

25

David Jelinek

Rep.Checa

Alero

1.94

45

Conor Morgan

Canadá/Irlanda

Ala-pívot

2.06

77

Víctor Arteaga

España

Pívot

2.14

 

Óscar Quintana

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: CORTÉS- SÁNCHEZ SIXTO- MENDOZA