Valencia Basket seeks its third acb final in a do-or-die game on the Real Madrid’s court

Valencia Basket returns to the Wizink Center for the fifth time this season with the aim of seeking a victory in its third and final game of the semifinal series against Real Madrid (Thursday 10, 10:00 p.m., Wizink Center, #Vamos) that will it would allow them to qualify for its third Liga Endesa final.

 

After extending the series with a win by 85-67 in game 2 played yesterday, the taronja squad will face its sixth game in eleven days trusting that the fact of having lengthened the rotation and distributed the minutes among the available players will allow it to have enough energy to face this difficult challenge, in which the Whites will once again have the support of up to a thousand of their fans.

 

The particular precedents are not favorable to the taronja squad, which has only won one of the three do-or-die game it has played in the semifinals. Nor are the general precedents, since there is only one precedent for a team that has risen 1-0 against in a best-of-three semifinal series in the entire history of the Endesa League.

 

However, the balance of direct confrontations this season is favorable to the Taronja squad by 4 to 3 and Jaume Ponsarnau's men became yesterday the first team to defend their court against Real Madrid in national competition. The Valencia Basket coach has his entire squad, who will travel to Madrid tomorrow morning by train.

 

Rosters

REAL MADRID

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Fabien Causeur

Francia

Alero

1.96

2

Juan Núñez

España

Base

1.91

5

Rudy Fernández

España

Alero

1.96

7

Alex Tyus

EE.UU/Israel

Pívot

2.03

11

Tristan Vukcevic

Italia

Ala-pívot

2.08

12

Carlos Alocén

España

Base

1.94

16

Usman Garuba

España

Pívot

2.03

17

Vincent Poirier

Francia

Pívot

2.13

20

Jaycee Carroll

EE.UU

Escolta

1.88

22

Walter Tavares

Cabo Verde

Pívot

2.20

44

Jeff Taylor

Suecia

Alero

2.01

 

Pablo Laso

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

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

Nikola Kalinic

Serbia

Alero

2.02

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

21

Derrick Williams

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.01

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

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