Valencia Basket visits the Gran Canaria Arena in its first option to get into the semifinals

Valencia Basket has traveled this afternoon to Las Palmas to face tomorrow the Endesa League quarterfinals game 2 vs. Herbalife Gran Canaria (Wednesday 30, 22: 00h, Gran Canaria Arena, Movistar Deportes 1) after add the first point of this series winning in the Fonteta by 71-56. The taronja squad will try to extend their good defensive feelings on a court where their rival has become strong this season and where they clearly won the Valencians in the Regular Season game, but in which Valencia Basket won the yellows in the final of the Endesa Super Cup despite having the support of its public.

 

It will be the first time that Valencia Basket visit Herbalife Gran Canaria for a Playoff game, a court where there is tremendous equality in the precedents, with five wins for each team in the last ten games. The taronja expedition consists of thirteen players, including the Icelandic young center Tryggvi Hlinason, so the coach Txus Vidorreta will have to make a technical discard before the start of the game. The injured Tibor Pleiss, Latavious Williams and Antoine Diot are out for this game.

 

Rosters

HERBALIFE GRAN CANARIA

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

4

Albert Oliver

España

Base

1.87

8

Marcus Eriksson

Suecia

Alero

2.01

9

Gal Mekel

Israel

Base

1.91

11

DJ Seeley

EE.UU

Escolta

1.93

12

Ondrej Balvin

Rep.Checa

Pívot

2.17

13

Eulis Báez

Rep.Dominicana

Ala-pívot

2.01

14

Anzejs Paseckniks

Letonia

Pívot

2.16

21

Oriol Paulí

España

Alero

2.01

22

Xavi Rabaseda

España

Alero

1.96

31

Nikola Radicevic

Serbia

Base

1.97

34

Pablo Aguilar

España

Ala-pívot

2.02

40

Luke Fischer

EE.UU/Armenia

Pívot

2.11

 

Luis Casimiro

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Will Thomas

EE.UU/Georgia

Ala-pívot

2.03

5

Sergi García

España

Base

1.93

6

Alberto Abalde

España

Alero

2.02

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

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

25

Ivan Buva

Croacia

Pívot

2.08

30

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.00

32

Erick Green

EE.UU

Escolta

1.90

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

51

Tryggvi Hlinason

Islandia

Pívot

2.15

 

Injured list

 

 

 

8

Antoine Diot

Francia

Base

1.93

21

Tibor Pleiss

Alemania

Pívot

2.18

22

Latavious Williams

EE.UU

Pívot

2.02

Txus Vidorreta

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ, GARCÍA ORTIZ Y OYÓN