Direct duel for the Endesa League Top-4 on the Joventut Badalona's court

Valencia Basket opens its sequence of three games in five days by visiting the Joventut Badalona’s court (Saturday 12, 6:00 p.m., Olímpic Badalona, ​​Movistar Deportes) in a Endesa League round 24 game that involves a direct duel against a rival who is fully involved in the fight for the same objectives as the taronja team.

 

A very tough touchstone for Joan Peñarroya's men to try to maintain the good dynamics in the Endesa League, where they have won six of their last seven games.

 

It will be a very special game for Xabi López-Arostegui and Neno Dimitrijevic, who will return for the first time to the court of the club where they grew up as children defending the colors of another team.

 

A historically difficult court for Taronja interests, but in which last season they managed to break a streak that was almost five years without winning in Badalona with an 80-91 win.

 

Our men's team travels this afternoon by road with the only absence of the long-term injured Sam Van Rossom (left leg hamstring).

 

Valencia Basket currently occupies the fourth position in the Endesa League with a balance of 13-7.

 

Rosters

JOVENTUT BADALONA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

2

Pep Busquets

España

Escolta

1.97

3

Brandon Paul

EE.UU

Alero

1.93

4

Pau Ribas

España

Escolta

1.94

10

Vladimir Brodziansky

Eslovaquia

Ala-pívot

2.10

14

Albert Ventura

España

Escolta

1.92

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

22

Andréz Feliz

R.Dominicana

Base

1.88

30

Derek Willis

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.06

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

 

 

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

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.05

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

99

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

REFERESS: Carlos Peruga - Alberto Sánchez Sixto - David Sánchez Benito