Valencia Basket closes its Russian tour looking for the more difficult still on the court of CSKA

Valencia Basket closes its tour of three Turkish Airlines Euroleague games in a row in Russia visiting the court of the current champion, CSKA Moscow (Thursday 23, 18:00h, Megasport Arena, DAZN) in a game that opens the 21st round of the maximum competition continental.

 

After taking the triumph in the two previous visits of this tour on the court of Khimki Moscow Region and Zenit St.Petersburg and getting into Playoff positions for the first time in the Euroleague standings, the Taronja squad has the difficult challenge of defending that position of privilege in one of the hardest courts of the continent and against an opponent who has never won as a visitor.

 

To do this, it must contain a team that leads two of the most important aspects of the game: it is the one with the most triples scored per game and the one with the most rebounds per game. And he will have to do it without the participation of Mike Tobey (muscular injury in the soleus of the right leg), Joan Sastre (recovering from a viral process), Jordan Loyd (left foot traumatism) and Alberto Abalde (flu), who this morning have not been part of the roster to which the captain Bojan Dubljevic returns in Euroleague.

 

Valencia Basket comes to this game in the seventh position of the Euroleague, with a balance of 10-10 and a run of six wins in the last eight games.

 

Rosters

CSKA MOSCOW

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Joel Bolomboy

Rusia

Ala-pívot

2.04

5

Mike James

EE.UU

Base

1.85

11

Semen Antonov

Rusia

Ala-pívot

2.02

17

Johannes Voigtmann

Alemania

Ala-pívot

2.11

20

Andrey Vorontsevich

Rusia

Ala-pívot

2.07

23

Daniel Hackett

Italia

Base

1.93

26

Howard Sant-Roos

Cuba

Alero

2.01

31

Kosta Koufos

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

32

Darrun Hilliard

EE.UU

Escolta

1.98

41

Nikita Kurbanov

Rusia

Alero

2.02

42

Kyle Hines

EE.UU

Pívot

1.98

84

Ron Baker

EE.UU

Base

1.93

 

Dimitris Itoudis

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Quino Colom

España

Base

1.88

2

Vanja Marinkovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.98

5

Maurice Ndour

Senegal

Ala-pívot

2.06

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

12

Brock Motum

Australia/Lituania

Ala-pívot

2.08

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

43

Tomas Pavelka

Eslovaquia

Pívot

2.14

Injured list

3

Jordan Loyd

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.01

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES:Soon at Euroleague.net