Valencia Basket finishes their 7DAYS EuroCup Top 16 at home receiving a needed Cedevita Zagreb

Valencia Basket their three home-game series receiving Cedevita Zagreb (Tuesday 31, 20: 30h, Fonteta, Teledeporte) in the week 5 Top 16 7DAYS EuroCup game. The taronja team, with the qualification for the quarter-finals and the home-court advantage in that round achieved, will try to extend their good dynamics in European competition (ten wins in a row in 7DAYS EuroCup) and look for a new victory that will allow the taronja team to stay in the highest places in the Top 16 ranking that decides the home-court advantage in the later elimination rounds.

 

Coach Pedro Martinez will have all his twelve professional players available for this game. Tomorrow’s game will be the first visit of Cedevita to the Fonteta, which will become the 90th Club to play an official match of European competition in the Taronja court. Valencia Basket leads Group H of this Top 16 with a balance of 4-0.

 

Pedro Martínez: “If we want our preparation to be good, we must continue playing to win”

Valencia Basket coach Pedro Martínez has stated in the preview press conference that "is undoubtedly the fact that they play more than us, and that is generally very good for those who play more, as it is better prepared. We must think that we must prepare, we are playing our preparation, that preparation for the qualifiers come with good preparation. If we want it to be a normal or good preparation. If we want it to be good we must play to win. We must play well for whatever is ahead, we must do it in the best way possible for what comes ahead. Obviously we play things through the competition system, but I think we should play well for our own preparation”.

 

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

 

 

CEDEVITA ZAGREB

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Rashad James

EE.UU

Escolta

1.85

2

Filip Kruslin

Croacia

Alero

1.98

3

Ryan Boatright

EE.UU

Base

1.83

6

Toni Katic

Croacia

Escolta

1.88

9

Luka Babic

Croacia

Alero

2.01

11

Karlo Zganec

Croacia

Ala-pívot

2.06

13

Dzanan Musa

Bosnia

Escolta

2.03

15

Miro Bilan

Croacia

Pívot

2.13

22

John Shurna

EE.UU/Lithuania

Ala-pívot

2.04

25

Mirza Begic

Eslovenia

Pívot

2.16

33

Marko Tomas

Croacia

Alero

2.01

35

Marko Arapovic

Croacia

Ala-pívot

2.07

 

Veljko Mrsic

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: SHEMMESH (Israel), SILVA (Portugal) and BAUMANIS (Latvia)