Hard test in the court of a Divina Seguros Joventut in good shape

Valencia Basket arrives at the last stop in national competition of their particular exodus of the month of November visiting the Divina Seguros Joventut’s court (Saturday 19, 18:30h, Olímpic, Movistar Deportes 1) in a week 9 Endesa League game. The orange player on loan in the black and green team, Alberto Abalde, will play for the first time against his new team in a official game since his signing was announced last summer. Valencia Basket has made a small concentration in Barcelona since Thursday with the eleven players available. Center Bojan Dubljevic will remain out for this game and stays in Valencia with the recovery of his right ankle injury. The Taronja squad currently holds the fourth position in the Endesa League Endesa with a balance of 5 wins and 2 losses.

 

P. Martínez: "Divina Seguros Joventut is in a very good dynamic"

Valencia Basket coach, Pedro Martinez, has pointed out from Barcelona that they arrive at Saturday's game "a bit fair, so much of training, that we are not having the ones we would like because we are now in a dynamic of many trips, both for the European competition and by the Endesa League. And that obviously has an impact on the quality and number of our practices. And we also drag the typical physical discomfort of some players due to the overload of games"

 

About the tomorrow’s opponent, the Taronja coach believes that Divina Seguros Joventut "is in a very good moment, as it shows that at home were very close to winning Baskonia and won Unicaja. After a start with many changes they are now in a very good dynamic. It is a team that plays a very attractive basketball, with short possessions and a fairly aggressive defense. Of course for our part we have the maximum respect and we will try to be very focused in a game that I think can be very close”.

Rosters

DIVINA SEGUROS JOVENTUT

Nº

Name

Born

Position

Height

3

Albert Sàbat

Spain

PG

1.80

6

Alberto Abalde

Spain

SF

2.02

9

Sergi Vidal

Spain

SG

1.99

10

Albert Miralles

Spain

C

2.08

11

Luka Bogdanovic

Serbia

PF

2.04

12

S. Vasiliauskas

Lithuania

PG

1.88

13

Jose Ignacio Nogués

Spain

SF

2.04

14

Albert Ventura

Spain

SG

1.91

21

Tomasz Gielo

Poland

PF

2.05

24

Luka Lapornik

Slovenia

SG

1.95

41

Garrett Stutz

USA

C

2.14

44

Jerome Jordan

Jamaica

C

2.15

 

Diego Ocampo

 

Coach

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Name

Born

Position

Height

0

Will Thomas

USA/Georgia

PF

2.03

8

Antoine Diot

France

PG/SG

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Belgium

PG

1.88

10

Romain Sato

CAF

SF

1.94

16

Guillem Vives

Spain

PG

1.92

17

Rafa Martínez

Spain

SG

1.90

18

Pierre Oriola

Spain

PF

2.06

19

Fernando San Emeterio

Spain

SF

1.99

30

Joan Sastre

Spain

SG

2.00

43

Luke Sikma

USA

PF

2.03

55

Viacheslav Kravtsov

Ukraine

C

2.13

 

Injured

 

 

 

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

C

2.05

 

Pedro Martínez

 

Coach

 

 

REFEREES: Óscar PEREA - Vicente BULTO - Martín CABALLERO