Valencia Basket opens the Copa del Rey Gran Canaria 2018 facing Iberostar Tenerife in quarterfinals

Valencia Basket will open the Copa del Rey Gran Canaria 2018 and will face Iberostar Tenerife in the quarterfinals game 1 (Thursday 15, 19:00h, Gran Canaria Arena, # 0) in an unprecedented match in this tournament that turns the black and yellow team into the 12th different rival of Valencia Basket in this competition. The taronja squad arrives at the tournament in a good moment of results after chaining three wins in a row and has increased its number of professional players available to ten with the entry in the group of the point guard Sergi Garcia.

 

They have not entered in the call for this tournament the injured players Guillem Vives, Antoine Diot, Sam Van Rossom and Latavious Williams. The Valencia Basket captain Rafa Martinez equals in this edition of the Copa del Rey the nine participations of Víctor Luengo with Valencia Basket and will become with his first basket in the highest scorer of the history of the Club in this tournament. In a squad that has a champion of the Copa del Rey (San Emeterio in 2009), all players have experience in this competition except Erick Green and the 2nd team rookies Hlinason and Puerto.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

3

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

5

Sergi García

España

Base

1.93

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

17

Rafa Martínez

España

Escolta

1.90

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

21

Tibor Pleiss

Alemania

Pívot

2.18

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

32

Erick Green

EE.UU

Escolta

1.90

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

51

Tryggvi Hlinason

Islandia

Pívot

2.15

 

Lesión

 

 

 

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

22

Latavious Williams

EE.UU

Pívot

2.02

Txus Vidorreta

Entrenador

 

IBEROSTAR TENERIFE

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

00

Rodrigo San Miguel

España

Base

1.86

7

Mamadou Niang

Senegal

Pívot

2.09

10

Ferran Bassas

España

Base

1.81

13

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

17

Fran Vázquez

España

Pívot

2.09

18

Tobias Borg

Suecia

Escolta

1.84

20

Mateusz Ponitka

Polonia

Alero

1.97

21

Tim Abromaitis

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

25

Rosco Allen

Hungría

Ala-pívot

2.08

33

Javier Beirán

España

Alero

2.00

34

Davin White

EE.UU

Escolta

1.85

77

Kostas Vasileiadis

Grecia

Alero

2.00

 

Fotis Katsikaris

 

Entrenador

 

 

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