Valencia Basket seeks for another great European night in La Fonteta with the visit of FC Barcelona

Valencia Basket closes its series of three straight home games hosting FC Barcelona (Wednesday 5, 21:00h, Fonteta, DAZN) in a Turkish Airlines Euroleague round 23 game that marks the start of a run of three games in five days for the men of Jaume Ponsarnau.

 

The Taronja squad will try to extend its good dynamics in the Fonteta in the Euroleague (seven victories in the last eight home games in this competition) to protect its position within the Playoff zone against another rival who is involved in the Top zone of the classification.

 

And incidentally, break his bad streak against an opponent against the one has lost in the previous three played so far in the current season (all of them outside of Valencia) and against which the taronja squad will face again in nine days in the quarterfinals of the end of the Copa del Rey. The only precedent in European competition, the one played in the Euroleague 2017-18, ended with victory taronja by 81-76.

 

Sam Van Rossom and Jordan Loyd (who had been the top scorer against the Catalans in the two matches played at Palau Blaugrana) still sidelined in Valencia Basket, although Mike Tobey is back after seven games out for a soleus injury. Valencia Basket begins this day located in the seventh position of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague, with a balance of 11-11.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Quino Colom

España

Base

1.88

2

Vanja Marinkovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.98

5

Maurice Ndour

Senegal

Ala-pívot

2.06

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

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

Injured list

3

Jordan Loyd

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

FC BARCELONA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Brandon Davies

EE.UU/Uganda

Ala-pívot

2.08

5

Pau Ribas

España

Escolta

1.94

8

Adam Hanga

Hungría

Alero

1.99

10

Rolands Smits

Letonia

Alero

2.07

13

Thomas Heurtel

Francia

Base

1.89

14

Artem Pustovyi

Ucrania

Pívot

2.18

18

Pierre Oriola

España

Ala-pívot

2.06

21

Álex Abrines

España

Alero

1.98

22

Cory Higgins

EE.UU

Escolta

1.96

23

Malcolm Delaney

EE.UU

Base

1.91

24

Kyle Kuric

EE.UU/Eslovaquia

Escolta

1.93

30

Víctor Claver

España

Ala-pívot

2.07

33

Nikola Mirotic

Montenegro/Esp

Ala-pívot

2.08

44

Ante Tomic

Croacia

Pívot

2.17

 

Svetislav Pesic

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: BOLTAUZER, ROCHA, THEPENIER