Valencia Basket closes a demanding straight of games with its first visit to Bàsquet Girona

Valencia Basket faces its fifth game in ten days to return to Fontajau more than fifteen years later to visit Bàsquet Girona for the first time (Sunday 12, 12:30 p.m., Palau Fontajau-Girona, Movistar Deportes 3) in an Endesa League round 22 game.

 

The Taronja squad will try to close in a good way a week in which they competed until the end but fell in their two Turkish Airlines EuroLeague clashes on the court of a rival who has won four of their last five home games.

 

Although there are no precedents for visits to Bàsquet Girona, in their previous visits to this arena against CB Girona, the Taronja team won 12 of the 17 times they visited Fontajau.

 

Coach Mumbrú will keep the same four absences for this game due to injury as in its game in Madrid: Jaime Pradilla (left shoulder), Kyle Alexander (right ankle) and the long-term injured Sam Van Rossom and Millán Jiménez. In addition, one of the three non-EU players (Harper, Webb III or Rivero) will have to be left out of the roster, so the list will be completed by the youngsters of the LEB Plata team.

 

The Icelandic point guard Martin Hermannsson, who was already on the roster for Thursday's game in Madrid, could have his first minutes after overcoming his serious left knee injury.

 

Valencia Basket begins this round located in the 8th position with a balance of 11-10.

 

Rosters

BÀSQUET GIRONA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

2

Máximo Fjellerup

Argentina

Escolta

1.98

4

Eric Vila

España

Alero

2.09

5

Kameron Taylor

EE.UU

Escolta

1.98

7

Pol Figueras

España

Base

1.85

8

Roko Prkacin

Croacia

Ala-pívot

2.06

10

Quino Colom

Andorra

Base

1.88

11

Dusan Miletic

Serbia

Pívot

2.14

23

Jeremiah Hill

EE.UU

Escolta

1.88

28

Ondrej Hanzlik

Rep.Checa

Escolta

2.00

29

Pato Garino

Argentina/Italia

Alero

1.96

33

Marc Gasol

España

Pívot

2.15

35

Jaume Sorolla

España

Pívot

2.11

 

Aíto García Reneses

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Base

1.78

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

5

James Webb

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

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

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

 

Injured list

 

 

 

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

21

Kyle Alexander

Canadá/Jamaica

Pívot

2.08

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Jordi Aliaga, Joaquín García González, Roberto Lucas