Endesa League returns to La Fonteta with a big game vs. TD Systems Baskonia

Valencia Basket returns to Fonteta 22 days after its last national competition game and it does so to face a high-voltage game facing TD Systems Baskonia (Sunday 24, 6:30 p.m., Fonteta, #Vamos) in a game that will close round 21.

 

The Taronja squad wants to quickly forget their bad game in France and knock down for the first time this season an opponent who has beaten them twice in close games played in Vitoria. Something that would mean extending a winning streak in national competition that already lasts more than two months and that is nine wins in a row before tomorrow’s game.

 

Valencia Basket has the precedents in favor (it has won in 8 of the last 9 matches against the Vitorian side in national competition at Fonteta, although the defeat in the semifinals of last season in the Final Phase broke the taronja streak) and with a win could balance the history of confrontations between these two teams in our city.

 

In an afternoon in which Louis Labeyrie can reach 150 games as a taronja player, captain Bojan Dubljevic and guard Klemen Prepelic could return to the roster, although their participation in the match is only probable. The one who has already returned to compete after two and a half months sidelined is Vanja Marinkovic, although he would have to be activated to be able to play this game. Valencia Basket comes to this clash placed in sixth position, with 13-6 in the standings.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

2

Vanja Marinkovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.98

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

6

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

12

Nikola Kalinic

Serbia

Alero

2.02

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

21

Derrick Williams

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.01

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

KIROLBET BASKONIA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

2

Sander Raieste

Estonia/ESP

Alero

2.04

3

Luca Vildoza

Argentina/Italia

Base

1.90

5

Tonye Jekiri

Nigeria

Pívot

2.13

7

Pierria Henry

EE.UU

Base

1.96

8

Tadas Sedekerskis

Lituania

Alero

2.04

12

Ilimane Diop

España

Pívot

2.10

19

Youssoupha Fall

Senegal/FRA

Pívot

2.21

25

Alec Peters

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

30

Zoran Dragic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.96

31

Rokas Giedraitis

Lituania

Alero

2.02

33

Achille Polonara

Italia

Ala-pívot

2.05

47

Arturs Kurucs

Letonia

Escolta

1.93

 

Dusko Ivanovic

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: García González –Martínez Fernández – Martínez Silla