High-level clash with the visit of Kirolbet Baskonia

Valencia Basket faces tomorrow a direct duel against another of the teams that occupies a top position in the Endesa League, Kirolbet Baskonia (Thursday 12, 21: 30h, Fonteta, Movistar Deportes 1) in a match in which the team taronja wants to assert the support of its public to seek a triumph that would allow it to look up towards that second position currently occupied by its rival tomorrow. The taronja squad reachs this meeting with two consecutive wins last week and after beating the record of triples scored in the Endesa League, something that further increases their advantage as the team that more triples gets and that scores them with better percentage in the championship.

 

Coach Txus Vidorreta prepares the game without counting with the German center Tibor Pleiss, who has not been able to practice with his teammates for a plantar fasciitis in the right foot that already made him miss the meeting on Sunday in San Sebastian. The more than probable absence of Pleiss joins the already known Fernando San Emeterio (fibrillar fracture in the left soleus), Guillem Vives (tenosynovitis in the left ankle) and the long-term injured Antoine Diot. Valencia Basket currently occupies the fourth position of the Endesa League, with a balance of 17-9, with two games of advantage over the fifth classified.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

3

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

5

Sergi García

España

Base

1.93

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

17

Rafa Martínez

España

Escolta

1.90

22

Latavious Williams

EE.UU

Pívot

2.02

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

32

Erick Green

EE.UU

Escolta

1.90

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

51

Tryggvi Hlinason

Islandia

Pívot

2.15

 

Lesión

 

 

 

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

21

Tibor Pleiss

Alemania

Pívot

2.18

Txus Vidorreta

Entrenador

 

KIROLBET BASKONIA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Luca Vildoza

Argentina

Base

1.91

6

Janis Timma

Letonia

Alero

2.01

7

Johannes Voigtmann

Alemania

Pívot

2.14

8

Rinalds Malmanis

Letonia

Ala-pívot

2.05

9

Marcelinho Huertas

Brasil/Italia

Base

1.90

10

Rodrigue Beaubois

Francia

Escolta

1.90

11

Matt Janning

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

12

Ilimane Diop

España

Pívot

2.11

17

Vincent Poirier

Francia

Pívot

2.13

19

Iván Martínez

España

Escolta

1.92

23

Tornike Shengelia

Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

29

Patricio Garino

Argentina/Italia

Alero

2.01

 

Pedro Martínez

 

Coach

 

 

REFEREES: PEREZ PIZARRO - SERRANO - PADROS