Direct duel in the Endesa League top zone with the visit of Unicaja to La Fonteta

Valencia Basket returns to the Fonteta ten days after its vibrant victory against Kirolbet Baskonia with another direct duel against a rival who fights for a place among the seeds, Unicaja, in a game corresponding to Endesa League round 29 (Sunday 22, 18: 30h, # 0). The taronja squad will want to assert its good streak (four wins in a row) and the support of its fans in a match in which a local victory would mean putting three games of difference against the team that currently occupies the fifth position and marks the cut of the home-court advantage in the Playoffs. An advantage to which the particular basket-average could be added in the event that Valencia Basket prevails by more than seven points and recovers the 74-67 loss of the first leg.

 

In a match that will be repeated for the 16th time in the last three seasons, the men of Txus Vidorreta have the advantage of the precedents played in the Fonteta (the taronja squad has won in six of the last seven Unicaja visits) and the games played this season (3-1 favorable to the taronja team in 2017-18). German center Tibor Pleiss, who has missed the last three games by a plantar fasciitis in the right foot, will be questionable until the last moment. Fernando San Emeterio (fibrillar fracture in the left soleus), Guillem Vives (tenosynovitis in the left ankle) and the long-term injured Antoine Diot are out for the game. Valencia Basket currently occupies the fourth position of the Endesa League, with a balance of 19-9.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

3

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

5

Sergi García

España

Base

1.93

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

17

Rafa Martínez

España

Escolta

1.90

22

Latavious Williams

EE.UU

Pívot

2.02

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

32

Erick Green

EE.UU

Escolta

1.90

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

51

Tryggvi Hlinason

Islandia

Pívot

2.15

Duda

21

Tibor Pleiss

Alemania

Pívot

2.18

 

Lesión

 

 

 

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

Txus Vidorreta

Entrenador

 

UNICAJA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

2

Viny Okouo

Congo

Pívot

2.14

3

Ray McCallum

EE.UU

Base

1.90

9

Alberto Díaz

España

Base

1.88

10

Sasu Salin

Finlandia

Escolta

1.91

11

Dani Díez

España

Alero

2.01

12

Dragan Milosavljevic

Serbia

Alero

1.96

16

Nemanja Nedovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.91

21

Adam Waczynski

Polonia

Alero

1.99

23

Jeff Brooks

EE.UU/Italia

Ala-pívot

2.03

35

Livio Jean-Charles

Francia

Pívot

2.04

40

James Augustine

EE.UU

Pívot

2.08

43

Carlos Suárez

España

Ala-pívot

2.03

 

Joan Plaza

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: JIMÉNEZ- OYÓN- RIAL