First chance for Valencia Basket in the EuroCup Finals game 2 on the ALBA Berlin’s court

Valencia Basket has traveled this morning to Germany to play on the court of ALBA Berlin the EuroCup Finals game 2 (Friday 12, 20:00h, Mercedes-Benz Arena, Teledeporte). After the win in the first game of the series by a score of 89-75, the taronja team has tomorrow its first chance to achieve its fourth continental title after the EuroCup of 2003, 2010 and 2014.

 

The team led by Jaume Ponsarnau will try to extend a streak that is already the best in the history of the Club in European competitions (15 wins in a row) to try to prevent the EuroCup Finals to come back to the Fonteta for a third and final game to be played on Monday 15 at 20:30h. To do this, the taronja squad must keep repeating the excellent defensive exercise of the first game to clog the offensive machinery of a rival that is the best attack of the competition (the German team scores 90.5 average points in their European games at home), the most valued team and one of the teams that best runs in transition on the continent.

 

To look for the second and final point of the Finals, coach Jaume Ponsarnau will have the absence of Guillem Vives (torn muscle in his right thigh) and will have to make a technical discard among the other thirteen available players.

 

Rosters

ALBA BERLÍN

Nº

Name

Born

Position

Height

1

Joshiko Saibou

Germany

PG

1.88

3

Peyton Siva

USA

PG

1.82

5

Niels Giffey

Germany

SF

2.00

10

Tim Schneider

Germany

PF

2.08

15

Martin Hermannsson

Iceland

SG

1.90

22

Franz Wagner

Germany

SF

2.03

25

Kenneth Ogbe

Germany

SG

1,98

31

Rokas Giedraitis

Lithuania

SF

2.00

32

Johannes Thiemann

Germany

C

2.05

33

Dennis Clifford

USA

C

2.13

35

Landry Nnoko

Cameroon

C

2.08

43

Luke Sikma

USA

PF

2.03

 

Aíto García Reneses

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Name

Born

Position

Height

1

Sergi García

Spain

PG

1.93

6

Alberto Abalde

Spain

SF

2.02

7

Louis Labeyrie

France

PF

2.08

8

Antoine Diot

France

PG

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Belgium

PG

1.88

10

Will Thomas

USA/Georgia

PF

2.03

13

Mike Tobey

USA

C

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

C

2.05

17

Rafa Martínez

Spain

SG

1.90

19

Fernando San Emeterio

Spain

SF

1.99

21

Matt Thomas

USA

SG

1.96

30

Joan Sastre

Spain

SG

2.00

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá

PF

2.01

Injured

16

Guillem Vives

Spain

PG

1.92

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: BELOSEVIC, KOROMILAS, VILIUS