Valencia Basket visits the court of the reigning Euroleague champions, Fenerbahçe Dogus

Valencia Basket will visit for the first time in his European career the court of the current Turkish Airlines Euroleague champion traveling to Istanbul to play against Fenerbahçe Dogus (Thursday 2, 18: 45h, Ulker Sports Arena, Movistar Deportes 1). The taronja squad recovers two players for this game. Croatian power forward Damjan Rudez is already available for the European game and forward Fernando San Emeterio, injured since the Endesa Supercup Finals, has joined the team practices and could have options to play. However, coach Txus Vidorreta keeps Antoine Diot, Joan Sastre and Latavious Williams in the injured list.

 

Valencia Basket comes to this hard commitment in a positive streak of play and results (chaining five wins in a row) and with the endorsement of being the best defense of the competition (only 65.5 points received per game). The taronja squad occupies at the start of this round 5 of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague the third position with a balance of 3-1, after getting two wins in the double day of last week at Baskonia’s court and with a home win vs. Unicaja.

 

Vidorreta: "We want to continue competing as we did until now”

Valencia Basket coach, Txus Vidorreta, said in the preview of the game that leads the taronja squad to visit the Fenerbahçe Dogus Istanbul’s court that "we want to play, see our feelings facing the European champion with Zeljko Obradovic, the coach most laureate in the history of European basketball. We want to continue giving good sensations, competing, as the team is doing in all the games we have played so far. And with the illusion of winning, of course".

 

Rosters

FENERBAHÇE DOGUS ISTANBUL

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

1

Jason Thompson

EE.UU

Pívot

2.11

4

Nicolo Melli

Italia

Ala-píivot

2.05

5

Baris Hersek

Turquía

Ala-pívot

2.08

10

Melih Mahmutoglu

Turquía

Escolta

1.91

11

Brad Wanamaker

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

16

Kostas Sloukas

Grecia

Base

1.90

21

James Nunnally

EE.UU

Alero

2.01

23

Marko Guduric

Serbia

Escolta

1.96

24

Jan Vesely

Rep.Checa

Pívot

2.13

32

Sinan Guler

Turquía

Escolta

1.92

35

Bobby Dixon

EE.UU/Turquía

Base

1.78

44

Ahmet Duverioglu

Turquía

Pívot

2.09

70

Luigi Datome

Italia

Alero

2.03

 

Zeljko Obradovic

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Damjan Rudez

Croacia

Ala-pívot

2.05

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

21

Tibor Pleiss

Alemania

Pívot

2.18

32

Erick Green

EE.UU

Escolta

1.90

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

51

Tryggvi Hlinason

Islandia

Pívot

2.15

 

Lesión

 

 

 

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

22

Latavious Williams

EE.UU

Pívot

2.02

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

 

Txus Vidorreta

 

Entrenador

 

 

REFEREES: ILIJA BELOSEVIC, MATEJ BOLTAUZER, ELIAS KOROMILAS