Valencia Basket seeks the triumph in Malaga to return the series to the Fonteta

Valencia Basket travelled this morning towards Málaga with one goal: to improve to seek the win in the Endesa League Quarterfinals game 2 vs. Unicaja (Sunday 2, 16: 30h, Martín Carpena, #Vamos) and return the series to the Fonteta to play the game 3 on Tuesday 4. The taronja team lost the home-court advantage after falling yesterday in the first game of the series by 78-85 and now is bound to win on a complicated court (although he has won in six of his last eleven visits to Carpena) so that his 2018-19 season does not end tomorrow.

 

In addition to knocking down a Unicaja in good dynamics and with high after Friday's triumph, Valencia Basket will also fight against its own history, since until now it has never lifted a series in which it started with 0-1 and in only an occasion (in the 2016-17 Endesa League Finals that supposed the title) has finished overcoming a Playoff in which it began losing the game 1.

 

The first step to be able to rewrite the taronja history in the ACB Playoffs necessarily involves come back with the triumph from Málaga and not repeating the series of the 2009-10 season, when after losing the first home game against the green team, Unicaja closed the series in the second commitment. Shooting guard Matt Thomas is sidelined for all this Playoff, recovering from the surgery he needed in the right thigh.

 

Rosters

UNICAJA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Jaime Fernández

España

Base

1.86

9

Alberto Díaz

España

Base

1.88

10

Sasu Salin

Finlandia

Escolta

1.91

11

Dani Díez

España

Alero

2.01

12

Dragan Milosavljevic

Serbia

Alero

1.96

17

Giorgi Shermadini

Georgia

Pívot

2.17

21

Adam Waczynski

Polonia

Alero

1.99

22

Brian Roberts

EE.UU

Base

1.88

26

Mathias Lessort

Francia

Pívot

2.05

32

Rubén Guerrero

España

Pívot

2.13

33

Kyle Wiltjer

Canadá

Ala-pívot

2.08

43

Carlos Suárez

España

Ala-pívot

2.03

 

Luis Casimiro

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

13

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

17

Rafa Martínez

España

Escolta

1.90

19

Fernando San Emeterio

España

Alero

1.99

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

Injured list

21

Matt Thomas

EE.UU

Escolta

1.96

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ- MANUEL- CABALLERO