Valencia Basket seeks to change its dynamics vs. Joventut Badalona at La Fonteta

Valencia Basket closes a series of three home games in a row and wants to count on the warmth of La Fonteta to change its negative dynamic of three consecutive losses and win the first Endesa League at home against an opponent who will not make it easy for them, Joventut Badalona (Saturday 6, 8:45 p.m., Movistar Deportes) in a game corresponding to Endesa League round 9

 

The Taronja squad will try to recover from the adjusted defeats has suffered in recent games in a clash that will mean the first return to the Fonteta of the sixth player with the most games played in the history of the entity, point-guard Guillem Vives, who now defends the colors of the green and black squad.

 

In a game full of crossed paths in which Xabi López-Arostegui will face the team in which he was grown for the first time, one of the incentives on the court will be to see the confrontation between the two most valued players in the Endesa League: Bojan Dubljevic and Ante Tomic.

 

Coach Joan Peñarroya recovers point guard Sam Van Rossom to extend the available professional squad players to nine, as he maintains the casualties of long-term injured Victor Claver, Mike Tobey and Neno Dimitrijevic. Valencia Basket is currently eighth in the Endesa League with a balance of 4-4.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

8

Guillem Ferrando

España

Base

1.84

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

12

Gonzalo Bressan

Argentina

Pívot

2.05

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

0

Neno Dimitrijevic

Macedonia del N.

Base

1.90

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

JOVENTUT BADALONA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

2

Pep Busquets

España

Escolta

1.97

4

Pau Ribas

España

Escolta

1.94

10

Vladimir Brodziansky

Eslovaquia

Ala-pívot

2.10

14

Albert Ventura

España

Escolta

1.92

16

Guillem Vives

España

Base

1.92

22

Andréz Feliz

R.Dominicana

Base

1.88

30

Derek Willis

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.06

32

Arturs Zagars

Letonia

Base

1.90

35

Simon Birgander

Suecia

Pívot

2.09

44

Joel Parra

España

Alero

2.02

55

Zsombor Maronka

Hungría

Alero

2.08

88

Ante Tomic

Croacia

Pívot

2.17

 

Carles Duran

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: Pérez Pérez - Bultó - Mendoza