Valencia Basket closes the first round of the Endesa League receiving Movistar Estudiantes

Valencia Basket will finish the first round of the League Endesa receiving Movistar Estudiantes at home (Sunday 15, 18:30h, Fonteta, Movistar + dial 194) in a game where a local win would ensure the status of seed for the team taronja In the draw of matches of the Copa del Rey next Monday. Coach Pedro Martinez will have his full squad to look for a win that would allow to prolong the good dynamics in the Fonteta and the good streak since the end of November, in which Valencia Basket has won 11 of his last 12 matches. In addition, a possible victory Taronja would balance the historical precedent between these two teams. Valencia Basket reaches this final day of the first round located in the third position of the Endesa League with a balance of 11 wins and 4 losses.

 

Pedro Martínez: "I expect a very hard game, like the presentation"

Valencia Basket coach, Pedro Martinez, has pointed out in the preview press conference that "the possibility of being seeded and it is something that without being definitive it is better to be it than not to be it, although it does not guarantee anything. It is a goal that we have and also to continue in a good dynamics in the home games, thinking not only in the Copa del Rey but thinking that the competition continues and win as much games as possible. They have had a first round with a lot of injuries, and I think that has detracted from their potential and has had their victories left. Now they have the full roster so we must think that it will be a hard game, like the presentation game, that you will remember that it was decided in the last three or four minutes"

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base/Escolta

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Romain Sato

R.Centroafricana

Alero

1.94

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

17

Rafa Martínez

España

Escolta

1.90

18

Pierre Oriola

España

Ala-pívot

2.06

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

43

Luke Sikma

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

55

Viacheslav Kravtsov

Ucrania

Pívot

2.13

 

Pedro Martínez

 

Entrenador

 

 

MOVISTAR ESTUDIANTES

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Edwin Jackson

Francia

Escolta

1.90

7

Jaime Fernández

España

Base

1.86

9

Edgar Vicedo

España

Alero

2.03

10

Omar Cook

EE.UU/Montenegro

Base

1.86

12

Goran Suton

Croacia

Ala-pívot

2.08

15

Dylan Page

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.04

17

Sitapha Savané

Senegal/España

Pívot

2.02

22

Jordi Grimau

España

Escolta

1.96

24

Ali Traoré

Francia

Pívot

2.08

25

Darío Brizuela

España

Escolta

1.88

31

Jamar Wilson

EE.UU/Finlandia

Base

1.85

38

Víctor Arteaga

España

Pívot

2.12

 

Salva Maldonado

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: Carlos PERUGA - Luis Miguel CASTILLO - Rafael SERRANO