Valencia Basket visits the court of Barça, the undefeated leader of the Liga Endesa

Valencia Basket closes its very tough week with the visit to the court of the undefeated leader of the Endesa League, Barça (Sunday 14, 6:30 p.m., Palau Blaugrana, #Vamos) in a game corresponding to round 10 of the Endesa League that the Taronja squad will face with the moral rush of their comeback and win on the Virtus Segafredo Bologna’s court but with two new sidelined players in the squad that join the other three that the Taronja team has been dragging in recent games.

 

Power forward Louis Labeyrie and point guard Martin Hermannsson will miss this game due to muscle injuries in the left leg, joining the already known absences of Victor Claver, Mike Tobey and Neno Dimitrijevic.

 

In a game that will put the two highest ranked players in the Endesa League face to face (Dubljevic and Mirotic), the Valencian team will try to improve their performance compared to the previous one this season, which was the defeat in the semifinal of the Endesa Super Cup by 87-68.

 

Although the general precedents are clearly favorable to the Catalan team, the recent dynamics are quite balanced in the last ten games between these two teams in national competition at the Palau Blaugrana, with five wins for each side. Valencia Basket is currently eighth in the Endesa League with a balance of 5-4.

 

Rosters

FC BARCELONA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Brandon Davies

EE.UU/Uganda

Pívot

2.08

5

Sertaç Sanli

Turquía

Pívot

2.13

8

Sergi Martínez

España

Alero

2.02

10

Rolands Smits

Letonia

Alero

2.07

14

Nigel Hayes

EE.UU

Alero

2.03

18

Pierre Oriola

España

Ala-pívot

2.06

20

Nico Laprovittola

Argentina/Italia

Base

1.90

22

Cory Higgins

EE.UU

Escolta

1.96

24

Kyle Kuric

EE.UU/SVQ

Escolta

1.93

31

Rokas Jokubaitis

Lituania

Base

1.93

33

Nikola Mirotic

Montenegro/Esp

Ala-pívot

2.08

42

Michael Caicedo

España

Escolta

1.99

99

Nick Calathes

Grecia

Base

1.96

 

Sarunas Jasikevicius

 

Entrenador

 

 

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

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

34

Rafael Vila

España

Alero

1.98

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

42

Alejandro Bellver

España

Escolta

1.95

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

0

Neno Dimitrijevic

Macedonia del N.

Base

1.90

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

7

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Antonio Conde - Luis Miguel Castillo - Carlos Merino Campos