First opportunity to secure the Top4 in the Endesa League on the Gran Canaria's court

Valencia Basket puts the focus on the final stretch of the Liga Endesa Regular Season starting with a visit to the Gran Canaria court (Sunday 8, 1:00 p.m., Gran Canaria Arena, Movistar Deportes) in a acb round 32 game.

 

The taronja team will have the first opportunity to add the victory they need to ensure seeded status and the home-court advantage in the quarterfinal Playoff on the court where they have not won in national competition for the longest time. To do this, he will have to break a negative streak of six defeats and just under six years without winning on the yellow team's court.

 

It will be the fifth confrontation of the campaign between these two teams (the fourth in an official game) and so far the balance is equal with two victories for each side, with the most recent precedent being the Canarian victory in the over-time by 91-90 in the 7DAYS EuroCup on the same stage as tomorrow's game.

 

The Icelandic point guard Martin Hermannsson, with an Achilles tendinopathy in his right leg, is going to miss the next games of the taronja team and joins the long-term injury Klemen Prepelic, although regarding the last game recovers the participation of Olivier Hanlan and Josep Puerto is recovering more and more after the sprained ankle that caused him to miss some games in the previous weeks.

 

Valencia Basket defends in the Gran Canaria Arena the third position of the Endesa League that it currently occupies, with a balance of 21-10.

 

Rosters

CB GRAN CANARIA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

5

Ilimane Diop

España

Pívot

2.10

6

Andrew Albicy

Francia

Base

1.78

7

Miquel Salvó

España

Alero

2.05

8

AJ Slaughter

EE.UU/Polonia

Escolta

1.91

9

Nico Brussino

Argentina/Italia

Alero

2.05

10

Javi López

España

Base

1.90

13

Artem Pustovyi

Ucrania

Pívot

2.19

14

John Shurna

EE.UU/Lituania

Ala-pívot

2.04

18

Khalifa Diop

Senegal

Pívot

2.15

31

Dylan Ennis

EE.UU/Serbia

Escolta

1.88

41

Oliver Stevic

Serbia

Pívot

2.04

55

Kenny Chery

Canadá

Base

1.80

 

Porfi Fisac

 

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

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.05

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

21

Olivier Hanlan

Canadá

Escolta

1.93

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

99

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Pérez Pizarro - Martínez Fernández - Merino