Valencia Basket seeks to get up against Unicaja with La Fonteta as the sixth player

Valencia Basket closes a very tough week of three home games to face Unicaja just 42 hours after the final buzzer of their Euroleague game against Zalgiris Kaunas (Sunday 27, 5:00 p.m., Fonteta, Movistar+ Deportes) in a game that closes the ninth round of the Endesa League.

 

The Taronja team will need La Fonteta to become the sixth player to give Álex Mumbrú's men extra energy to help them recover from the wear and tear of last Friday's game and the moral blow of losing a game they had controlled for most of the clash.

 

Valencia Basket will seek to break a bad dynamic that is already four consecutive defeats against a rival that arrives in an opposite streak and that has been able to take the win in the Fonteta in three of its last five visits.

 

In the game that can gather the most EuroBasket 2022 champions, with the presence of four gold medalists on the Fonteta hardwood, the Taronja squad will seek to recover their best offensive feelings and the accuracy from the 3-point line that has decreased in recent games against one of the best defenses of the acb.

 

In the medical report, Chris Jones could already be on the hardwood in Friday's game but Sam Van Rossom joins the list of indefinite sidelined players since he will undergo surgery to solve the problems that he has been suffering in his right knee. His absence joins the already well-known of Millán Jiménez (left ankle) and the long-term injured Martin Hermannsson. Valencia Basket begins this round located in the 11th position with a balance of 4-4.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Base

1.78

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

5

James Webb

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/Armenia

Base

1.88

12

Jonah Radebaugh

EE.UU/MNT

Escolta

1.91

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

21

Kyle Alexander

Canadá/Jamaica

Pívot

2.08

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

55

Lucas Marí

España

Base

1.97

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Álex Mumbrú

Entrenador

 

UNICAJA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Dylan Osetkowski

EE.UU/Alemania

Ala-pívot

2.06

3

Melvin Ejim

Canadá/Nigeria

Alero

2.01

4

Tyler Kalinoski

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

6

Augusto Lima

Brasil/España

Pívot

2.09

7

Jonathan Barreiro

España

Alero

2.03

8

Darío Brizuela

España

Escolta

1.96

9

Alberto Díaz

España

Base

1.88

11

Tyson Carter

EE.UU

Base

1.93

14

Nihad Djedovic

Bosnia/Alemania

Escolta

1.97

15

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

45

David Kravish

EE.UU/Bulgaria

Pívot

2.08

55

Kendrick Perry

EE.UU/Montenegro

Base

1.83

 

Ibon Navarro

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: Juan Carlos García González - Sergio Manuel - Carlos Merino