Final battle in the Fonteta for the ticket to the semifinals in the QF game 3 vs. Unicaja

Valencia Basket closes in the Fonteta its Endesa League quarterfinals Playoff vs. Unicaja with the third and final game of this very tough series (Tuesday 4, 21:00h, Fonteta, #Vamos) with the aim of enforcing in this time the home-court advantage after recovering it yesterday winning the game 2 in Malaga by 69-76. The winner of this game will face Real Madrid in the semifinals, with the first game of this second round scheduled for Thursday, June 6 at 9:00 pm on the Wizink Center.

 

La Fonteta will present the aspect of the great occasions with reception to the team from 18:45 hours, fire in the presentation, a huge taronja mosaic and the sponsorship of Oscar Mayer. The taronja team has a home option to complete the comeback (after falling in the first game of the series at home by 78-85) and recover from a 0-1 for the first time in the Playoff League Endesa. And of course, to tie to three the historical of confrontations between these two teams in the ACB Playoffs.

 

On a night when Will Thomas will play his 200th game with the taronja jersey,  Valencia Basket will try to get strong on a court in which he has imposed himself on the Málaga squad on nine of his last eleven visits to the Fonteta, keeping the absence of the shooting guard Matt Thomas, who continues with the recovery of the intervention to which he was subjected in the right thigh.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

13

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

17

Rafa Martínez

España

Escolta

1.90

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

Baja

21

Matt Thomas

EE.UU

Escolta

1.96

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

UNICAJA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Jaime Fernández

España

Base

1.86

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

17

Giorgi Shermadini

Georgia

Pívot

2.17

21

Adam Waczynski

Polonia

Alero

1.99

22

Brian Roberts

EE.UU

Base

1.88

26

Mathias Lessort

Francia

Pívot

2.05

32

Rubén Guerrero

España

Pívot

2.13

33

Kyle Wiltjer

Canadá

Ala-pívot

2.08

43

Carlos Suárez

España

Ala-pívot

2.03

 

Luis Casimiro

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: MARTÍN BERTRÁN, PERUGA, CASTILLO