Valencia Basket clings to #DefensemLaFonteta to extend its semifinal series vs. Real Madrid

Valencia Basket wants to become strong in the Fonteta to add its first point of the Endesa League semifinals against Real Madrid in the game 3 of the series (Monday 10, 21:00h, Fonteta, Movistar Deportes) and avoid the end of the season on Monday night. After falling in the first two games of the series by 94-72 and 79-66, the taronja team is forced to win to stay alive in the competition.

 

The previous ones say that it can achieve it, since the taronja team has never been left without wins in their playoff  series vs. Real Madrid and in the two occasions in which they have reached the Fonteta with 2-0 against the whites, it has ended winning the third game of the series. To face this game, Fernando San Emeterio is questionable with an overload in the left soleus and his participation in the meeting tomorrow is in the air. To the possible absence of the Cantabrian joins the confirmed absence of the shooting guard Matt Thomas.

 

On the night when Real Madrid becomes Valencia Basket's most frequent rival in the Endesa League, the Taronja team will try to break a bad streak at home that has led them to lose their last six matches in national competition against this rival and that has made the whites are the only one of the rivals to which Valencia Basket has faced this season to which he has not been able to win.

 

Improve your shooting percentages in front of our crowd, maintain the intensity of the game 2 output and continue to control fundamental aspects such as the rebound are some of the elements that the taronja team needs to control in order to continue fighting in a hypothetical game 4 of the semifinals that would be played again at the Fonteta on Wednesday 12 at 9:00 p.m.

 

Rosters

PLANTILLA VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

13

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

17

Rafa Martínez

España

Escolta

1.90

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

Baja

21

Matt Thomas

EE.UU

Escolta

1.96

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

REAL MADRID

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Fabien Causeur

Francia

Escolta

1.95

3

Anthony Randolph

EE.UU/Eslovenia

Ala-pívot

2.11

5

Rudy Fernández

España

Alero

1.96

7

Facundo Campazzo

Argentina/España

Base

1.81

9

Felipe Reyes

España

Ala-pívot

2.04

14

Gustavo Ayón

México

Pívot

2.07

16

Santiago Yusta

España

Alero

2.00

20

Jaycee Carroll

EE.UU/Azerbaijan

Escolta

1.88

22

Walter Tavares

Cabo Verde

Pívot

2.20

23

Sergio Llull

España

Base

1.90

24

Gabriel Deck

Argentina

Alero

1.98

33

Trey Thompkins

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.08

44

Jeffery Taylor

Suecia

Alero

2.01

 

Pablo Laso

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: CONDE, CORTÉS, BULTÓ