Valencia Basket host Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv at La Fonteta

Valencia Basket men's team will play its third Turkish Airlines EuroLeague home game in a row at La Fonteta to host Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv (Wednesday 18, 8:30 p.m., Fonteta, #Vamos) in a round 3 game that was initially planned to be held in Israel but which altered the order of clashes due to the armed conflict in this country.

 

The match has been declared high risk, so it will have a reinforced security device, exhaustive controls will be carried out at the access doors and the doors will open earlier than usual (from 7:00 p.m.) to facilitate the entrance.

 

The taronja squad will try to keep open its good dynamic of results (six wins in a row) against a rival that has won more times in the Fonteta than has lost (2-3 favorable for the Israelis) and that has always guaranteed exciting duels (only one of the previous five has been solved by more than three points).

 

Jared Harper (right shoulder) and the long-term injured Martin Hermannsson and Xabi López-Arostegui still sidelined. Forward Semi Ojeleye is a questionable due to overload while Stefan Jovic, who missed the game in Lugo after receiving a blow to the hip, has already joined practices with the rest of his teammates.

 

Valencia Basket begins this third day in fourth position in the Euroleague with a 2-0.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Nate Reuvers

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.11

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/ARM

Base

1.88

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

10

Damien Inglis

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.06

16

Stefan Jovic

Serbia

Base

1.98

21

Boubacar Touré

Senegal

Pívot

2.13

30

Kassius Robertson

Canadá/JAM

Escolta

1.90

32

Brandon Davies

EE.UU/UGA

Pívot

2.08

37

Semi Ojeleye

EE.UU/NIG

Alero

2.01

 

Lesionados

 

 

 

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Base

1.78

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

MACCABI PLAYTIKA TEL AVIV

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Antonius Cleveland

EE.UU

Escolta

1.96

3

James Webb III

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.06

4

Lorenzo Brown

EE.UU/España

Base

1.96

8

Rafi Menco

Israel

Alero

1.98

9

Roman Sorkin

BLR/Israel

Pívot

2.08

12

John DiBartolomeo

EE.UU/Israel

Base

1.83

14

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

15

Jake Cohen

Israel

Ala-pívot

2.10

19

Yaron Goldman

Israel

Base

1.88

32

Josh Nebo

EE.UU

Pívot

2.06

45

Tamir Blatt

Israel

Base

1.78

50

Bonzie Colson

EE.UU

Alero

1.98

 

Oded Kattash

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: BELOSEVIC, ROSSI, TSAROUCHA