Valencia Basket returns to Fonteta to receive Rio Natura Monbús Obradoiro

Valencia Basket returns home after two weeks without a match in the Fonteta to face Rio Natura Monbús Obradoiro (Saturday 29, 19: 00h, Movistar + dial 68) in a game in which if the orange squad manages to win will mark a new record of home wins in a row in the Endesa League. American center Mike Tobey is not available for the game (partial fibrillar rupture of the right soleus) and will join Slava Kravtsov in the injured list.

 

A victory against the Galician team would also be an almost definitive step to guarantee the home court advantage in the Endesa League quarterfinals. With a victory this Saturday, only a four wins in their four remaining games of Iberostar Tenerife and three taronja defeats until the end of the Regular Season would deprive the Pedro Martinez’s squad of the condition of seed. Valencia Basket is currently the first position of the Endesa League with a balance of 21 wins and 7 losses.

 

Pedro Martínez: "Transcendental game for our Goals"

Valencia Basket coach Pedro Martínez said that tomorrow is "a transcendental game, key to our goals of being seed in the Playoffs and we should give the maximum value, knowing that this goal is not achieved and that depends a lot on tomorrow's game. They are at their best momentum of the season, come from winning at Retabet.es Bilbao’s court, where we did not. We play at home, we have options but we have to play a good game"

 

Rosters

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

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

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

43

Luke Sikma

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

 

Baja

 

 

 

55

Viacheslav Kravtsov

Ucrania

Pívot

2.13

 

Pedro Martínez

 

Entrenador

 

 

RIO NATURA MONBUS OBRADOIRO

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Deividas Dulkys

Lituania

Alero

1.95

8

Osvaldas Matulionis

Lituania

Alero

2.00

9

Nacho Llovet

España

Pívot

2.02

10

Txemi Urtasun

España

Escolta

1.92

11

Aleks Maric

Australia

Pívot

2.11

13

Artem Pustovyi

Ucrania

Pívot

2.18

16

Santiago Yusta

España

Alero

2.00

21

Shayne Whittington

EE.UU

Pívot

2.08

22

Eimantas Bendzius

Lituania

Alero

2.03

24

Fran Cárdenas

España

Base

1.77

25

Rosco Allen

Hungría

Ala-pívot

2.08

32

Mickey McConell

EE.UU

Base

1.82

44

Pepe Pozas

España

Base

1.82

 

Moncho Fernández

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: PERUGA - SANCHEZ MONSERRAT - ALIAGA