The #CalderaTaronja will decide the ticket for the semifinals

Valencia Basket closes their 7DAYS EuroCup quarterfinals series vs. Khimki Moscow Region (Wednesday 8, 20: 45h, Teledeporte / Eurosport2 / Euroleague TV) with the third and final game to be played in a Fonteta transformed for the occasion in a #CalderaTaronja (Orange Boiler). The valencian squad will try to take profit from the support of their public to maintain their good dynamics in the home games (no loses in the Fonteta since October 19nd) And keep the story as it has gone so far (never lost a do or die match in a European serie when that last game has been played in Valencia). As the main handicap, the taronja team will only have nine professional players available to face this game due to the absence of Guillem Vives (left ankle sprain), Antoine Diot (traumatic plantar edema secondary to the fibrillar rupture of the external portion of the plantar fascia of his left foot) and Slava Kravtsov.

 

Khimki Moscow Region forced the third game of this quarterfinal series by winning the game played on Friday in Moscow by 98-74 and the weekend won in his VTB-League match to Tsmoki Minsk 80-72.  in a match In which Dusko Ivanovic could not count either with Valery Likhodey or Jeremy Evans or Nobel Boungou-Colo, who remain out for the tomorrow’s game. The Russian squad brings in the current statistical MVP of the tournament, SG Alexey Shved, who leads the EuroCup in points and ranking and was chosen MVP both the 7DAYS EuroCup quarterfinals game 2 and the month of February in the VTB-League. Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem already awaits the winner of this do or die game.

 

P. Martínez: "If we have options it's because we play in #CalderaTaronja”

Valencia Basket coach Pedro Martínez said before the 7DAYS Eurocup quarterfinals game 3 vs. Khimki Moscow Region that "the injured are badly moody, because they can not help. The rest, wanting to compete, because we are going to compete. I want to talk about the uninjured, we are going to compete, to give the maximum, we must try to win. We train, play and live to play these kind of games, we are privileged and we must have good spirit. The difficulties are logical, we can lose but we also know that we can win. It's a pretty game for living, playing and winning it. If we don’t get it for sure will be a tough time for us. We will fight for the options we have".

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Name

Born

Position

Height

0

Will Thomas

USA/Georgia

PF

2.03

9

Sam Van Rossom

Belgium

PG

1.88

10

Romain Sato

CAF

SF

1.94

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

C

2.05

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

 

 

 

8

Antoine Diot

France

PG/SG

1.93

16

Guillem Vives

Spain

PG

1.92

55

Viacheslav Kravtsov

Ukraine

C

2.13

 

Pedro Martínez

 

Coach

 

 

KHIMKI MOSCOW REGION

Nº

Name

Born

Position

Height

0

Jacob Pullen

USA/Georgia

PG

1.85

1

Alexey Shved

Russia

SG

1.95

2

Markel Brown

USA

SG

1.91

6

Robbie Hummel

USA

PF

2.06

7

Ruslan Pateev

Russia

C

2.12

8

Viacheslav Zaitsev

Russia

PG

1.90

9

Egor Vialtsev

Russia

SG

1.93

10

Dmitry Sokolov

Russia

C

2.14

11

Stanislav Ilnitskiy

Russia

SF

2.02

12

Sergey Monia

Russia

PF

2.02

19

Marko Todorovic

Montenegro

C

2.10

22

E.J. Rowland

USA

PG

1.88

 

Injured

 

 

 

13

Valery Likhodey

Russia

SF

2.04

16

Nobel Boungou-Colo

France

SF

2.03

21

Jeremy Evans

USA

C

2.06

 

Dusko Ivanovic

 

Coach

 

 

REFEREES: FOUFIS (Greece), HERCEG (Croatia) and FRITZ (Germany)