Valencia Basket seeks to seal his ticket for the Playoffs hosting Cafés Candelas Breogán

Valencia Basket starts at home the last month of the Regular Season hosting Cafés Candelas Breogán in a Endesa League round 30 game (Saturday 4, 18:00h, Fonteta, Movistar Deportes). The team will try to extend its four-games winning streak and add a victory that would allow the taronja squad to guarantee mathematically the spot in the Endesa League Playoffs for the 13th consecutive season.

 

It will not be easy against an needed opponent and with the injuries that accumulate in the backcourt rotation: Abalde (surgery on a finger of the right hand), Van Rossom (bone edema in the left knee), Diot (hamstring) and Matt Thomas (right thigh bruise) will not be against the Galicians. In a call with only nine pro players and only one point-guard, Young players Josep Puerto and Tomas Pavelka will complete the roster. Valencia Basket currently occupies the fourth position of the Endesa League with a balance of 19-10.

 

Jaume Ponsarnau

"Cafés Candelas Breogán has totally changed the philosophy with the change of coach. Now it is a very vertical team, very aggressive. The signing of McCallum has meant a lot for this change of philosophy. It is a team that wants to attack the hoop, which seeks the advantage from the determination and at this moment is playing very well and with a lot of competitive ability. We are going to have to be good in everything that is to control that”.

 

Rosters

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

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

33

Tomas Pavelka

Eslovaquia

Pívot

2.17

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

Injured list

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

21

Matt Thomas

EE.UU

Escolta

1.96

Jaume Ponsarnau

Entrenador

 

CAFÉS CANDELAS BREOGÁN

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

3

Ray McCallum

EE.UU

Base

1.91

4

Aleksandar Cvetkovic

Serbia

Base

1.88

12

Johan Löfberg

Suecia

Alero

1.99

14

Salva Arco

España

Escolta

1.96

15

Romaric Belemene

RD Congo

Alero

2.02

19

Emir Sulejmanovic

Finlandia

Pívot

2.04

20

Tadija Dragicevic

Serbia

Ala-pívot

2.06

21

Alec Brown

EE.UU

Pívot

2.16

22

Christian Díaz

España

Base

1.84

25

Lucio Redivo

Argentina/Italia

Escolta

1.83

42

Sergi Quintela

España

Escolta

1.85

52

Volodymyr Gerun

Ucrania

Pívot

2.08

 

Tito Díaz

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: PERUGA- OYÓN- ZAMORANO