A very tough clash against Joventut Badalona in the Rafa Martínez’s evening

Valencia Basket will play its first official home game of the season hosting Joventut Badalona (Sunday 2, 6:30 p.m., Fonteta, #Vamos) in one of the most interesting games of the Liga Endesa round 2. After opening the competition in Seville with a 78-83 win, the taronja squad will have less than two days to prepare to face a rival that has kept most of the block that last season qualified for the semifinals of the acb.

 

However, the great protagonist on Sunday afternoon at La Fonteta will be the eternal captain Rafa Martínez, who before the game will reveal his name as the new name for court 3 of L'Alqueria del Basket and who will see his number 17 climbs to the sky of La Fonteta after the game to never be used again by anyone else in the taronja men's team.

 

Millán Jiménez (left ankle) and the long-term injured Martin Hermannsson remain out due to physical problems, while the coaching staff will be able to rush until the match preview to decide whether to keep Jared Harper as the ruled-out non-EU player.

 

Although the general dynamic is favorable to the taronja team with twelve wins in the last thirteen visits by Penya, recent precedents indicate that two seasons ago the game ended with a resounding victory for the green and blacks and last season only a final comeback prevented a new Taronja defeat. In the preseason, yes, the confrontation between these two teams (marked by multiple absences on both sides), fell on the Taronja side. Valencia Basket faces this match in fifth position in the Endesa League, with a balance of 1-0.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Base

1.78

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

5

James Webb

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/Armenia

Base

1.88

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

12

Jonah Radebaugh

EE.UU/MNT

Escolta

1.91

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

21

Kyle Alexander

Canadá/Jamaica

Pívot

2.08

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

 

Lesionados

 

 

 

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

JOVENTUT BADALONA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Yannick Kraag

Países Bajos

Alero

2.02

2

Pep Busquets

España

Escolta

1.97

4

Pau Ribas

España

Escolta

1.94

9

Kyle Guy

EE.UU

Escolta

1.88

11

Henry Ellenson

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.08

14

Albert Ventura

España

Escolta

1.92

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

22

Andrés Feliz

Rep.Dominicana

Base

1.88

25

William Howard

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.03

35

Simon Birgander

Suecia

Pívot

2.09

44

Joel Parra

España

Alero

2.02

55

Zsombor Maronka

Hungría

Alero

2.08

88

Ante Tomic

Croacia

Pívot

2.17

 

Carles Duran

 

Entrenador

 

 

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