Valencia Basket open their second Endesa League Finals at Real Madrid’s court

Valencia Basket opens their second presence in the Endesa League Finals with the first of two consecutive visits to the Real Madrid’s court (Friday 9, 20: 30h, WiZink Center, # 0) in what will be their first showdown against the white team in the Finals. The Taronja squad reaches the final round fourteen years after their first Endesa League Finals after removing for the first time in its 30 years of history FC Barcelona (2-1) and Baskonia (1-3). Valencia Basket has a good dynamic in the last four seasons on the Real Madrid’s court (he has won three of his last eight visits), although he has lost the last three times he has gone out to play at the WiZink Center as a Real Madrid home. For this Final Playoff, coach Pedro Martinez will be able to count on all his roster except Sam Van Rossom, once Rafa Martínez has overcome his problems in the back and Guillem Vives will jump to the parquet despite losing some practices this week for a sprained left ankle.

 

Pedro Martínez: “We know about the difficulty, but we hope to do well and win"

Valencia Basket coach said in the previous press conference that "I wish we had more options, everything seems too obvious, I would like to have more options than the ones that they are giving to me. The perceptions are one and what happens on the track may be another. We are excited about playing a good PlayOff and we want to win, we know the difficulty and Real Madrid is a good team. I'm happy to achieve the second final in the history of the club but they have been playing 6 final in a row. We want to play at the first quarter and we hope to do things well”.

 

Rosters

REAL MADRID

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Anthony Randolph

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.11

4

Dontaye Draper

EE.UU/Croacia

Base

1.81

5

Rudy Fernández

España

Alero

1.96

6

Andrés Nocioni

Argentina/Italia

Ala-pívot

2.03

7

Luka Doncic

Eslovenia

Base

1.98

8

Jonas Maciulis

Lituania

Alero

1.98

9

Felipe Reyes

España

Ala-pívot

2.04

14

Gustavo Ayón

México

Ala-pívot

2.07

20

Jaycee Carroll

EE.UU/Azerbaijan

Escolta

1.88

21

Othello Hunter

EE.UU/Liberia

Pívot

2.03

23

Sergio Llull

España

Base

1.90

36

Álex Suárez

España

Ala-pívot

2.06

44

Jeffery Taylor

Suecia

Alero

2.01

 

Injured List

 

 

 

33

Trey Thompkins

EE.UU

Pívot

2.08

 

Pablo Laso

 

Entrenador

 

 

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

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

21

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

42

Luis Ferrando

España

Base

1.85

43

Luke Sikma

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

55

Viacheslav Kravtsov

Ucrania

Pívot

2.13

 

Out

 

 

 

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

 

Pedro Martínez

 

Entrenador

 

 

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