Valencia Basket opens the Euroleague in a big way hosting the reigning champion CSKA Moscow

Valencia Basket begins the participation in its third Turkish Airlines Euroleague in six seasons with the traditional confrontation between the EuroCup champion and the Euroleague champion, so the taronja squad will open the tournament in Fonteta hosting CSKA Moscow (Friday 4, 21:00 hours, DAZN). The Taronja team opens its fifth participation in the highest category of European basketball against an opponent who has never won at Fonteta (two Russian defeats in the previous ones) in a game that has been designated as Game of the Week and will be seen live in more than 130 countries. Senegalese power forward Maurice Ndour could play his first official game as taronja player in this game after overcoming his arm injury, while the question is whether Jordan Loyd will be able to participate after missing last Sunday's game in Bilbao due to a problem in his right knee.

 

Despite losing important players, CSKA Moscow has signed very interesting reinforcements and much of the roster that raised the title in Vitoria a few months ago still there. Of his two players coming directly from the NBA, the guard Ron Baker will premiere in this game after not being registered in the VTB-League and the center Kosta Koufos has missed the last games of the Russian team due to a leg injury.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Quino Colom

España

Base

1.88

2

Vanja Marinkovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.98

3

Jordan Loyd

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

5

Maurice Ndour

Senegal

Ala-pívot

2.06

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

12

Brock Motum

Australia/Lituania

Ala-pívot

2.08

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.01

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

CSKA MOSCOW

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Joel Bolomboy

Rusia

Ala-pívot

2.04

5

Mike James

EE.UU

Base

1.85

7

Ivan Ukhov

Rusia

Escolta

1.93

11

Semen Antonov

Rusia

Ala-pívot

2.02

13

Janis Strelnieks

Letonia

Base

1.91

17

Johannes Voigtmann

Alemania

Ala-pívot

2.11

20

Andrey Vorontsevich

Rusia

Ala-pívot

2.07

21

Will Clyburn

EE.UU

Alero

2.01

23

Daniel Hackett

Italia

Base

1.93

30

Mikhail Kulagin

Rusia

Base

1.91

31

Kosta Koufos

EE.UU/Grecia

Pívot

2.13

32

Darrun Hilliard

EE.UU

Escolta

1.98

41

Nikita Kurbanov

Rusia

Alero

2.02

42

Kyle Hines

EE.UU

Pívot

1.98

84

Ron Baker

EE.UU

Base

1.93

 

Dimitris Itoudis

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: LAMONICA, ZAMOJSKI, VYKLICKY