Complicated challenge for Valencia Basket with the visit to the Hereda San Pablo Burgos court

Valencia Basket will try to extend its good performance as a visitor in the Endesa League by visiting the Hereda San Pablo Burgos’ court (Saturday 16, 8:45 p.m., Coliseum Burgos, Movistar Deportes) in a acb round 6 game that will be very special for Joan Peñarroya and Jasiel Rivero, who will face for the first time a team with which they were tri-champions last season.

 

The precedents are favorable to the taronja team, who have always won in their visits to the Coliseum Burgos to play an Endesa League game (balance of 0-4 in favor of Valencia Basket on this court) but this time they will face a rival who arrives to this clash in a great moment of shape and results.

 

Valencia Basket will once again have a rotation of nine pro-players, as captain Bojan Dubljevic will miss this game with a grade 2 sprain to his left ankle but Belgian Sam Van Rossom has already recovered from a muscle injury in his right leg that has kept him away from the courts since the acb round 1 and will travel with the team to Burgos in a game in which he can play his 400th game with the taronja jersey.

 

The youngsters of the second team will complete the 12-man list for the confirmed casualties due to injury of the aforementioned Dubljevic, Mike Tobey and Klemen Prepelic. Valencia Basket occupies the eleventh position of the Endesa League with a balance of 2-3.

 

Rosters

HEREDA SAN PABLO BURGOS

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Dejan Kravic

Serbia

Pívot

2.10

2

Kareem Queeley

Reino Unido

Escolta

1.93

6

Aleksej Nikolic

Eslovenia

Base

1.91

7

Maksim Salash

Bielorrusia

Ala-pívot

2.06

8

Vitor Benite

Brasil/Italia

Escolta

1.94

11

Dani Díez

España

Alero

2.01

12

Thad McFadden

EE.UU/Georgia

Escolta

1.88

17

Suleiman Braimoh

Nigeria

Ala-pívot

2.03

22

Xavi Rabaseda

España

Alero

1.96

25

Tyrus McGee

EE.UU

Escolta

1.89

27

Marc García

España

Escolta

1.97

32

Alex Renfroe

EE.UU/Bosnia

Base

1.91

77

Stephen Zack

EE.UU

Pívot

2.11

 

Zan Tabak

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Neno Dimitrijevic

Macedonia del N.

Base

1.90

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

12

Gonzalo Bressan

Argentina

Pívot

2.05

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Hierrezuelo, Sánchez Sixto , Merino