Valencia Basket closes its demanding week on the Barça's court

Valencia Basket men's team closes its series of four games in eight days by visiting the court of the hottest team in the Endesa League, Barça (Sunday 5, 12:30 p.m., Fonteta, #Vamos) in a game corresponding to round 19 of the acb.

 

The Taronja squad will try to recover energy after the exhaustion of the Euroleague double-game week to look for its best version and try to change its recent bad dynamics as a visitor in the Endesa League in one of the most difficult scenarios to do so, since Barça has not lost this season at home in acb.

 

Although the history is clearly unfavorable for Valencia Basket, the recent history at the Palau Blaugrana does favor the Taronja team, which has won six of its last ten visits to this arena in national competition games and has won in its last two visits in the Regular Season.

 

In the two clashes this season, both played at La Fonteta, a victory for each side: Barça won first in the Endesa League and the orange team won by one point in the Euroleague.

 

This game could mean the return of Cuban Jasiel Rivero, who already had a few minutes in Thursday's game, but Xabi López-Arostegui is questionable after missing the game against the Israelis due to some discomfort in his right knee.

 

Dubljevic, Van Rossom, Hermannsson and Millán Jiménez are still sidelined due to injury.

 

Valencia Basket begins this round located in the 8th position with a balance of 9-9.

 

Rosters

BARÇA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Oscar Da Silva

Alemania

Ala-pívot

2.06

3

Oriol Paulí

España

Alero

2.01

5

Sertac Sanli

Turquía

Pívot

2.13

6

Jan Vesely

Rep.Checa

Pívot

2.10

10

Nikola Kalinic

Serbia

Alero

2.02

13

Tomas Satoransky

Rep.Checa

Base

2.01

20

Nico Laprovittola

Argentina/Italia

Base

1.90

21

Álex Abrines

España

Escolta

1.98

22

Cory Higgins

EE.UU

Alero

1.96

23

Mike Tobey

EE.UU/SLO

Pívot

2.13

24

Kyle Kuric

EE.UU/SVQ

Escolta

1.93

31

Rokas Jokubaitis

Lituania

Base

1.93

33

Nikola Mirotic

Montenegro/ESP

Ala-pívot

2.08

46

James Nnaji

Nigeria

Pívot

2.12

 

Sarunas Jasikevicius

 

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

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

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

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

12

Jonah Radebaugh

EE.UU/MNT

Escolta

1.91

13

Shannon Evans

EE.UU/Guinea

Base

1.85

21

Kyle Alexander

Canadá/Jamaica

Pívot

2.08

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Antonio Conde - Alfonso Olivares - Raúl Zamorano