Valencia Basket returns to the Euroleague visiting the very tough court of Virtus Segafredo Bologna

Valencia Basket men's team returns to the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague three weeks after its last game after the break for the national cups and FIBA qualifiers game to visit the court of one of the best home teams of the tournament, Virtus Segafredo Bologna (Thursday 29, 8:30 p.m., Virtus Segafredo Arena, Movistar+ Deportes) in a top continental competition round 27 game.

 

The Taronja team will try to extend its good moment as a visitor in this tournament, where it has won two of its last three away games, after ten days of preparation that have been marked by the absences of its five international players.

 

One of them, power forward Damien Inglis, will meet directly with the Taronja expedition in Bologna, so coach Mumbrú will have his entire roster to face this game only in the two sessions he will carry out on Italian soil. Center Boubacar Touré, who continues having treatment for his back injury, is the only safe sidelined player for this game.

 

To try to win on a court where Virtus Segafredo Bologna went more than five months without defeat in the Euroleague, the taronja team will need to find its best defensive version. Which has allowed it to be the team with the best defensive rating in the tournament (107.4 points conceded every 100 possessions) and to have five players in the Top10 of this statistical section.

 

Valencia Basket begins this final stretch of the competition in the play-in zone, as it is currently ninth in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague with a balance of 13-13.

 

Rosters

VIRTUS SEGAFREDO BOLOGNA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

00

Isaia Cordinier

Francia

Escolta

1.96

1

Iffe Lundberg

Dinamarca

Escolta

1.93

3

Marco Belinelli

Italia

Escolta

1.96

6

Alessandro Pajola

Italia

Base

1.94

9

Jaleen Smith

EE.UU

Escolta

1.91

13

Ognjen Dobric

Serbia

Alero

2.00

19

Rihards Lomazs

Letonia

Escolta

1.87

21

Tornike Shengelia

Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.06

23

Daniel Hackett

Italia

Base

1.97

24

Leo Menalo

Croacia

Ala-pívot

2.06

25

Jordan Mickey

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

33

Achille Polonara

Italia

Ala-pívot

2.01

41

Ante Zizic

Croacia

Pívot

2.10

42

Bryant Dunston

EE.UU

Pívot

2.03

55

Abass Awudu Abass

Italia

Alero

1.98

 

Luca Banchi

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Escolta

1.78

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Nate Reuvers

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.11

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

5

Justin Anderson

EE.UU

Alero

1.98

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/ARM

Base

1.88

10

Damien Inglis

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.06

16

Stefan Jovic

Serbia

Base

1.98

30

Kassius Robertson

Canadá/JAM

Escolta

1.90

32

Brandon Davies

EE.UU/UGA

Pívot

2.08

37

Semi Ojeleye

EE.UU/NIG

Alero

2.01

47

Kevin Pangos

Canada/SLO

Base

1.85

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

21

Boubacar Touré

Senegal

Pívot

2.13

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: 

JAVOR, NIKOLIC, PEERANDI