Valencia Basket seeks victory to extend its series against a very secure at home UCAM Murcia

Valencia Basket men's team faces the second game of its Endesa League quarterfinals series against UCAM Murcia (Wednesday 22, 8:30 p.m., Palacio de los Deportes, Movistar+ Deportes) with the need to add the win to extend the series, return it to Fonteta and ensure that their season does not end after losing in the game 1 by 86-96.

 

The taronja team will try to improve its offensive efficiency and its defensive exercise to extend a dynamic that says that on the last two occasions in which it began a best-of-three quarterfinals series with a 0-1, it was able to win the second game.

 

 It will not be an easy task on the court of a team that has won 22 of its 24 home games this season and that has also done so with solvency with an average difference of 15.2 points in its victories.

 

A fact for optimism is that Valencia Basket is one of the two teams that has managed to take the win this season at the Palacio de los Deportes de Murcia, when they won after over-time by 77-85. The other, who has won in six of his last eight visits to this venue. Although it is the first time that they will play a Playoff game there.

 

With Chris Jones, Brandon Davies and Semi Ojeleye missing practices, the only confirmed sidelined players are long-term injured Boubacar Touré and Kevin Pangos.

 

Rosters

UCAM MURCIA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

00

Rodions Kurucs

Letonia

Alero

2.03

8

Howard Sant-Roos

Cuba

Alero

2.01

10

Troy Caupain

EE.UU

Base

1.93

11

Nemanja Radovic

Montenegro

Ala-pívot

2.08

12

Jonah Radebaugh

EE.UU/MON

Base

1.91

13

Wilhelm Falk

Suecia

Escolta

2.03

14

Dustin Sleva

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.03

15

Fabián Flores

España

Pívot

2.11

21

Moussa Diagne

Senegal

Pívot

2.11

22

Ludde Hakanson

Suecia

Base

1.89

24

Yannis Morin

Francia

Pívot

2.06

25

David Jelinek

Rep.Checa

Alero

1.94

31

Dylan Ennis

Canadá/SRB

Escolta

1.88

47

Arturs Kurucs

Letonia

Base

1.93

 

Sito Alonso

 

Entrenador

 

 

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

 

Injured list

 

 

 

21

Boubacar Touré

Senegal

Pívot

2.13

47

Kevin Pangos

Canadá/SLO

Base

1.85

Xavi Albert

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Pérez Pérez - Aliaga - García González