Top duel on the Real Madrid’s court to open the Endesa League second round

Valencia Basket opens the second round of the Endesa League visiting the Real Madrid’s court (Sunday 22, 18: 30h, WiZink Center, # 0) in a game that faces the first and second placed in the competition. Coach Pedro Martinez will have his full roster to try to extend the good dynamics of the Taronja team in the away games (five wins in their last six away games) in a court in which Real Madrid has not lost in national competition for more of a year. The taronja squad comes from achieving a major victory on the Unicaja’s court in 7DAYS EuroCup and will count in his favor with the good results obtained in the last seasons at the Palacio de los Deportes (two victories in his last three visits in the Regular Season) and with the support of more than 150 Taronja fans who will encourage the team in this complicated exit. Valencia Basket reaches this week 18 located in the second position of the Endesa League, with a balance of 12 wins and 4 losses.

 

P. Martínez: "We go to Madrid to confront our virtues with theirs"

Valencia Basket coach, Pedro Martínez, has indicated that "more than staying with the strengths of the Real Madrid, which are obvious and well-known, what we have to do is be aware of our strengths, we also have them. We can not go to Madrid thinking that things can not go well. We have our virtues, we have our quality and what we have to do is to confront them with their virtues with a good spirit and try to do things very well, understanding that there will be difficult times, because all the games you have bad moments and more against a team with the quality of Real Madrid".

 

Rosters

REAL MADRID

Nº

Name

Born

Position

Height

3

Anthony Randolph

USA

PF

2.11

4

Dontaye Draper

USA/Croatia

PG

1.81

5

Rudy Fernández

Spain

SF

1.96

6

Andrés Nocioni

Argentina/Italy

PF

2.03

7

Luka Doncic

Slovenia

PG

1.98

8

Jonas Maciulis

Lithuania

SF

1.98

9

Felipe Reyes

Spain

PF

2.04

14

Gustavo Ayón

México

PF

2.07

20

Jaycee Carroll

USA/Azerbaijan

SG

1.88

21

Othello Hunter

USA/Liberia

C

2.03

23

Sergio Llull

Spain

PG

1.90

36

Álex Suárez

Spain

PF

2.06

44

Jeffery Taylor

Sweden

SF

2.01

 

Descarte

 

 

 

33

Trey Thompkins

USA

C

2.08

 

Pablo Laso

 

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

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

C

2.05

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

 

Pedro Martínez

 

Coach

 

 

REFEREES: Antonio CONDE - Fernando CALATRAVA - Jacobo RIAL