La Fonteta as a key factor in the “final” to be in the Copa del Rey vs. Club Joventut Badalona

Valencia Basket plays for its participation in the 2020 Copa del Rey in a direct duel against another team with options to enter the tournament like Club Joventut Badalona (Sunday 12, 17:00h, Fonteta, Movistar Deportes).

 

The accounts are very simple for a taronja team that depends on itself: if the taronja squad wins will be tomorrow in the tournament and if it loses it will stop playing the Copa del Rey for the third time in the last 23 years.

 

Valencia Basket reach the first "final" of the season with just 40 hours ofrecovering from a very tough game against Olympiakos (which also ended in defeat), with Mike Tobey sidelined and with its two top scorers Jordan Loyd and Bojan Dubljević doubtful, trying to recover from two ankle sprains and their participation will be a game-time decision.

 

In this situation, Fonteta has to become the sixth player to contribute extra energy to maintain the good line at home in the Endesa League (where he has not lost in national competition since November 3) and to this rival (who has won in his last ten visits). The taronja team begins this round 17 located on the top since it gives access to the Copa del Rey, the eighth, with a 8-8 balance.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Quino Colom

España

Base

1.88

2

Vanja Marinkovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.98

3

Jordan Loyd

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

5

Maurice Ndour

Senegal

Ala-pívot

2.06

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

12

Brock Motum

Australia/Lituania

Ala-pívot

2.08

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.01

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

Sidelined

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

CLUB JOVENTUT BADALONA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Nenad Dimitrijevic

Macedonia

Base

1.90

2

Perrin Buford

EE.UU

Alero

1,98

4

Joel Parra

España

Alero

2.01

6

X. López-Aróstegui

España

Alero

2.00

9

Conor Morgan

Canadá/Irlanda

Ala-pívot

2.06

10

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

11

Kerem Kanter

Turquía

Pívot

2.06

14

Álbert Ventura

España

Escolta

1.91

16

Nikos Zisis

Grecia

Base

1.95

23

Alen Omic

Eslovenia

Pívot

2.16

32

Arturs Zagars

Letonia

Base

1.90

81

Luke Harangody

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

 

Carles Duran

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: PEREZ PEREZ – OYÓN – ZAMORANO