Maximum level test in the UCAM Murcia's court

Valencia Basket returns to the Endesa League to try to recover its good line as a visitor in this competition (8 wins and 3 losses in the national tournament) after two defeats in a row in Lugo and Badalona although the taronja squad visits one of the most complicated courts to do so, the UCAM Murcia’s one (Sunday 27, 12:30 p.m., Palacio de los Deportes, Movistar Deportes 1) in a Endesa League round 26 game.

 

The taronja team will seek a victory that would allow it to remain close to its immediately superior rivals in the fight for the Top-4 positions in the acb and that would also distance another of the teams that has been opting for those privileged positions since the beginning of the campaign .

 

To do so, they will have to win for the first time this season against one of the few rivals they have faced at least twice this season and who they have not been able to beat, since the Murcian team took the victory both in the first leg in La Fonteta as in the quarterfinals in the Copa del Rey de Granada.

 

Coach Joan Peñarroya recovers forward Víctor Claver compared to the last Endesa League game, after had already 22 minutes in Bursa, but maintains the absences in the point guard position with Sam Van Rossom and Neno Dimitrijevic sidelined.

 

The taronja coach confessed in the pre-game press conference that he hoped to have at his disposal a better physical version of the Icelandic Martin Hermannsson, who has played the team's last games making an overexertion and diminished by a viral process.

 

The Taronja team currently occupies the fifth position in the Endesa League with a balance of 15-8.

 

Rosters

UCAM MURCIA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Jordan Davis

EE.UU/AZE

Escolta

1.88

3

James Webb III

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

6

Augusto Lima

Brasil/España

Pívot

2.10

7

Tomás Bellas

España

Base

1.85

8

Rinalds Malmanis

Letonia

Ala-pívot

2.04

11

Nemanja Radovic

Montenegro

Ala-pívot

2.08

12

Thad McFadden

EE.UU/Georgia

Escolta

1.88

15

Emanuel Cate

Rumanía

Pívot

2.04

22

Isaiah Taylor

EE.UU

Base

1.90

27

Sadiel Rojas

Rep. Dominicana

Alero

1.98

77

Kostas Vasileiadis

Grecia

Alero

2.00

 

Sito Alonso

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.05

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

42

Alejandro Bellver

España

Escolta

1.95

99

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

0

Neno Dimitrijevic

Macedonia del N.

Base

1.90

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Jordi Aliaga, Rafael Serrano, Yasmina Alcaraz