Tough test for Valencia Basket on the Baxi Manresa's court

Valencia Basket men's first team will try to extend their good moment in the Endesa League also away from La Fonteta and will have the difficult challenge of changing their dynamics as a visitor on the Baxi Manresa’s court (Sunday 7, 8:00 p.m., Nou Congost, Movistar Deportes 2) in an acb round 31 game.

 

A victory could not ensure the presence of Taronja in the Playoff with any combination of results, but adding the 17th win would mean a significant step forward to certify the post-season.

 

Although the general precedents are favorable to the Taronja squad, which has won in Manresa in nine of the last twelve visits and in the last two, the Bages team's good run at home and its need make them an extremely dangerous rival.

 

Valencia Basket will have five sidelined players on Sunday. Sam Van Rossom, Klemen Prepelic, Xabi López-Arostegui and Millán Jiménez are still out and Jared Harper (muscular discomfort in his left thigh) joins them. The Cuban power forward Jasiel Rivero, absent last week due to an overload in the calf, has traveled with the expedition and could return if he is registered despite the fact that he has been absent from the training dynamics for most of the week.

 

Valencia Basket begins this round located in the 8th position of the Endesa League with a record of 16-14.

 

Rosters

BAXI MANRESA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

00

Devin Robinson

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

0

Brancou Badio

Senegal

Base

1.91

1

Adam Waczynski

Polonia

Alero

1.99

3

Jerrick Harding

EE.UU

Base

1.85

5

Guillem Jou

España

Escolta

1.95

6

Dani García

España

Base

1.85

12

Marcis Steinbergs

Letonia

Ala-pívot

2.08

13

Musa Sagnia

Gambia

Alero

2.01

17

Frankie Ferrari

EE.UU/Italia

Base

1.85

21

Babatunde Olumuyiwe

Sierra Leona

Pívot

2.03

22

Juampi Vaulet

Argentina/POL

Alero

1.99

23

Martinas Geben

Lituania

Pívot

2.08

55

Dani Pérez

España

Base

1.84

 

Pedro Martínez

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

5

James Webb

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/Armenia

Base

1.88

12

Jonah Radebaugh

EE.UU/MNT

Escolta

1.91

13

Shannon Evans

EE.UU/Guinea

Base

1.85

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

21

Kyle Alexander

Canadá/Jamaica

Pívot

2.08

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Base

1.78

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Fernando Calatrava - Carlos Cortés - Alberto Baena