Direct duel for second place in the acb in La Fonteta vs. Barça

Valencia Basket men’s team hopes to have the Fonteta of the great occasions to face a direct duel for second place in the acb facing Barça (Sunday 29, 6:30 p.m., Fonteta, Movistar Plus+) in a Endesa League round 7 game.

 

The taronja squad comes to the game with the moral boost of its solid win in Lithuania on Friday and will need to repeat the good defensive exercise carried out in Kaunas to try to minimize the effectiveness of an opponent that arrives as one of the best attacks and that is the who scores the most triples in the acb.

 

Valencia Basket will try to extend its good moment in national competition with the support of its public (with five wins in a row in Endesa League) and at the same time try to change its recent dynamic against an opponent that has taken victory from Fonteta in five of their last six visits in the Endesa League, including the heavy defeat in the second quarterfinal game that ended last season. The general precedents are also favorable to the Barça team (17-24).

 

With the only confirmed absence due to injury to point guard Martin Hermannsson, coach Álex Mumbrú has 14 players from his professional squad available for this game, including the recovered Jared Harper who already contributed 13 points to the victory in Kaunas and Xabi López-Arostegui who, after a prolonged absence, still did not enter the squad for that game despite the fact that he has been training with the group for a few days.

 

Regarding Friday's roster, the Taronja coach will have to include again one of the two Spain-raised players who did not participate in Lithuania (López-Arostegui or Ferrando) and deactivate one of the non Spain-raised players.

 

Valencia Basket begins this seventh round in third position with a balance of 5-1.

 

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

Nate Reuvers

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.11

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/ARM

Base

1.88

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

10

Damien Inglis

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.06

16

Stefan Jovic

Serbia

Base

1.98

21

Boubacar Touré

Senegal

Pívot

2.13

30

Kassius Robertson

Canadá/JAM

Escolta

1.90

32

Brandon Davies

EE.UU/UGA

Pívot

2.08

37

Semi Ojeleye

EE.UU/NIG

Alero

2.01

 

Injured list

 

 

 

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

FC BARCELONA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Oscar Da Silva

Alemania

Ala-pívot

2.06

3

Oriol Paulí

España

Alero

2.01

5

Sertac Sanli

Turquía

Pívot

2.13

6

Jan Vesely

Rep.Checa

Pívot

2.10

8

Dario Brizuela

España

Escolta

1.88

10

Nikola Kalinic

Serbia

Alero

2.02

13

Tomas Satoransky

Rep.Checa

Base

2.01

14

Willy Hernangómez

España

Pívot

2.10

20

Nico Laprovittola

Argentina/Italia

Base

1.90

21

Álex Abrines

España

Escolta

1.98

22

Jabari Parker

Estados Unidos

Ala-pívot

2.03

23

James Nnaji

Nigeria

Pívot

2.12

31

Rokas Jokubaitis

Lituania

Base

1.93

44

Joel Parra

España

Alero

2.02

 

Roger Grimau

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: García González - Castillo - Olivares