Valencia Basket counts on La Fonteta to stay alive in its series against Barça

Valencia Basket men’s team will have the warmth of La Fonteta to face the quarterfinals game 2 of the Endesa League Playoff vs. Barça (Friday 2, 9:00 p.m., Fonteta, #Vamos) looking for a triumph that allows the taronja squad to extend the series and prevent his season from ending after the defeat in the game 1 by 84-74.

 

In addition to the change of scenery and the support of its fans, the Taronja team will try to hold on to the precedents that favor it (has a good balance in the second games of the ACB quarterfinal series in which it started losing and does not stay blank in the first round of the Playoffs since 2011) against a rival against whom they have lost four of their last five games at La Fonteta in national competition and who have the best open streak of the tournament with nine wins in a row.

 

The victory in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague game of this same campaign by 84-83 is a good model to follow for this commitment. So that this battle is not the last of the season, the taronja team has the same 14 players available as in the first game, so they will have to rule out one of their three non-EU players and another of their non-local grown players to define its 12-man list.

 

Sam Van Rossom, Xabi López-Arostegui and Millán Jiménez still sidelined, while the Barça team has its entire squad except for shooting guard Cory Higgins, who underwent surgery on his back earlier this month in May.

 

Rosters

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

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

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

21

Kyle Alexander

Canadá/Jamaica

Pívot

2.08

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

 

Injured list

 

 

 

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

FC BARCELONA

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

8

Sergi Martínez

España

Alero

2.02

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

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

 

 

REFEREES: García González - Jiménez - Olivares