Valencia Basket closes the week on the court of the hottest team in the acb, Cazoo Baskonia

Valencia Basket will try to close its first week of three games of the year in a positive way on the court of one of the hottest teams in Europe and the best in the acb, Cazoo Baskonia (Sunday 8, 6:30 p.m., Fernando Buesa Arena, #Vamos) in a round 15 game of the Endesa League.

 

The Taronja team will return to the court less than 44 hours after their defeat in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and will try to recover energy to look for the good defensive version of the second half of Friday's game against an opponent who is the outstanding leader of the main offensive statistics in the Endesa League.

 

Although history says that Vitoria is the Arena in which Valencia Basket has its worst record of victories in the entire acb, last season for the first time it was able to win twice at the Fernando Buesa Arena. And it will try to extend on Sunday a peculiar dynamic that says that for 19 months neither of these two teams has asserted the home-court advantage in the confrontations between them.

 

Van Rossom, Claver, Hermannsson and Millán Jiménez will stay sidelined for the next games. Also coach Mumbrú will have to leave out for this game one of his non-EU players (Rivero, Webb or Harper) due to the nationality restrictions of the Endesa League. The young player from L'Alqueria del Basket Lucas Marí will complete the 12-man list.

 

Valencia Basket defends in this game the 8th position with a balance of 7-7 that would currently give it access to the Final Round of the Copa del Rey.

 

Rosters

CAZOO BASKONIA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Markus Howard

EE.UU

Base

1.79

2

Sander Raieste

Estonia

Alero

2.01

7

Pierria Henry

EE.UU/Senegal

Base

1.93

8

Tadas Sedekerskis

Lituania

Alero

2.04

9

Vanja Marinkovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.98

11

Dani Díez

España

Alero

2.01

13

Darius Thompson

EE.UU/Italia

Base

1.93

21

Maik Kotsar

Estonia

Pívot

2.11

23

Steven Enoch

EE.UU/Armenia

Pívot

2.08

24

Matt Costello

EE.UU/CIV

Ala-pívot

2.08

31

Rokas Giedraitis

Lituania

Alero

2.02

34

Daulton Hommes

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

47

Arturs Kurucs

Letonia

Escolta

1.93

 

Joan Peñarroya

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Base

1.78

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

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

21

Kyle Alexander

Canadá/Jamaica

Pívot

2.08

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

55

Lucas Marí

España

Base

1.97

 

Injured list

 

 

 

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Emilio Pérez Pizarro, Arnau Padrós, Alfonso Olivares