Valencia Basket opens its acb quarterfinals Playoff vs. Bitci Baskonia at La Fonteta

Valencia Basket opens its Liga Endesa quarterfinals series facing game 1 against Bitci Baskonia at La Fonteta (Tuesday 24, 9:00 p.m., Fonteta, #Vamos) in a game that represents the reissue of last season's quarterfinals.

 

The Taronja squad will try to assert that home court advantage achieved after finishing the Regular Season in third position and keeping open a winning streak at home that is already ten wins in the Liga Endesa.

 

For this Valencia Basket will have the absence of the long-term injured Klemen Prepelic and is questionable how much point guard Martin Hermannsson can contribute, after  the Icelandic has already partially joined team-practices after being away from the courts since last May 4.

 

The one that begins tomorrow will be the seventh time that these two teams meet in a Playoff tie, with a balance that is favorable to the team from Vitoria by 2-4. And Bitci Baskonia already knows what it means to win this season at La Fonteta, by winning the acb Regular Season game by 67-72.

 

Although the most recent precedent in the Playoff, also in the quarterfinals and with the home court advantage for the taronja squad, was resolved in favor of Valencia Basket in the third game of the series.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Neno Dimitrijevic

Macedonia del N.

Base

1.90

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.05

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

21

Olivier Hanlan

Canadá

Escolta

1.93

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

99

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

 

Questionable

 

 

 

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

BITCI BASKONIA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

2

Sander Raieste

Estonia

Alero

2.01

5

Wade Baldwin

EE.UU

Base

1.93

8

Tadas Sedekerskis

Lituania

Alero

2.04

9

Vanja Marinkovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.98

10

Yannick Wetzell

Nueva Zelanda

Pívot

2.08

11

Jayson Granger

Uruguay/Italia

Base

1.88

20

Simone Fontecchio

Italia

Alero

2.03

23

Steven Enoch

EE.UU/Armenia

Pívot

2.08

24

Matt Costello

EE.UU/CIV

Ala-pívot

2.08

25

Alec Peters

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.06

31

Rokas Giedraitis

Lituania

Alero

2.02

47

Arturs Kurucs

Letonia

Escolta

1.93

 

Neven Spahija

 

Entrenador

 

 

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