Valencia Basket seeks to recover its identity hosting Baskonia in La Fonteta

Valencia Basket men's team repeats at Fonteta after the disastrous game against LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne, seeking to recover its identity and good feelings hosting Baskonia (Sunday 7, 5:00 p.m., Fonteta, Movistar Deportes 2) in a Endesa League round 28 game.

 

The game will mark the debut of a homegrown man like Xavi Albert as head coach of the Taronja team after the dismissal of Álex Mumbrú, which will make him the 25th coach in the history of our Club.

 

The Taronja team will need to take a step forward to regain the support of La Fonteta in an important duel in the race to enter the very expensive Endesa League Playoffs between two of the teams involved.

 

A local win would mean putting two games ahead of the Vitorian team, which in the case of reaching 9+ points would also give the Taronja team the tie-breaker.

 

And it would also break the bad streak against this rival in Valencia, since the Baskonista team has taken the win in its last four visits to Fonteta in national competition and has tilted the history of clashes in Taronja fiefdom in its favor (21-23). Of course, the solid Taronja win in the Euroleague in Vitoria a little over two months ago broke the general bad streak that Valencia Basket had against this rival.

 

The latest Taronja signing, center Alpha Kaba, has been registered in the Endesa League and is at the coach's disposal to be able to make his debut in this game in which the long-term injured Boubacar Touré and the point guard Kevin Pangos are sidelined.

 

With 14 players available, the Taronja coach will have to leave out two of his players, one of them necessarily an American player.

 

Valencia Basket begins this round in seventh position in the Endesa League with a balance of 16-11.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Jared Harper

EE.UU

Escolta

1.78

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

3

Nate Reuvers

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.11

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

5

Justin Anderson

EE.UU

Alero

1.98

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

7

Chris Jones

EE.UU/ARM

Base

1.88

10

Damien Inglis

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.06

16

Stefan Jovic

Serbia

Base

1.98

27

Alpha Kaba

Francia

Pívot

2.08

30

Kassius Robertson

Canadá/JAM

Escolta

1.90

32

Brandon Davies

EE.UU/UGA

Pívot

2.08

37

Semi Ojeleye

EE.UU/NIG

Alero

2.01

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

21

Boubacar Touré

Senegal

Pívot

2.13

47

Kevin Pangos

Canada/SLO

Base

1.85

Xavi Albert

Entrenador

 

BASKONIA VITORIA-GASTEIZ

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Markus Howard

EE.UU

Base

1.79

2

Sander Raieste

Estonia

Alero

2.01

3

Chris Chiozza

EE.UU

Base

1.80

4

Joseba Querejeta

España

Base

1.86

8

Tadas Sedekerskis

Lituania

Alero

2.04

9

Vanja Marinkovic

Serbia

Escolta

1.98

10

Codi Miller-McIntyre

EE.UU/Bulgaria

Base

1.91

11

Dani Díez

España

Alero

2.01

17

N. Rogkavopoulos

Grecia

Alero

2.01

21

Maik Kotsar

Estonia

Pívot

2.11

24

Matt Costello

EE.UU/CIV

Ala-pívot

2.08

25

Jordan Theodore

EE.UU/MKD

Base

1.83

95

Chima Moneke

Nigeria

Ala-pívot

1.98

 

Dusko Ivanovic

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: Luis Miguel Castillo - Alfonso Olivares - Alberto Baena