Valencia Basket will fight on the Lenovo Tenerife’s court to be seeded in the Copa del Rey

Valencia Basket closes the first leg of the Endesa League recovering its round 15 postponed game to visit the always hard court of Lenovo Tenerife (Sunday 30, 8:00 p.m., Santiago Martín, Movistar Deportes 2) in a game in which a win would allow the taronja squad to put its name in the seeding pot in the Copa del Rey draw to be held on Monday.

 

After mathematically guaranteeing their presence at the tournament to be played in Granada between February 17 and 20 with their solid 91-62 win yesterday at La Fonteta against Gran Canaria, the accounts of the Taronja team are very simple: if they win in the Santiago Martín will be seeded in the tomorrow’s draw and if loses will be not.

 

After having eleven pro-players for the second time in the season in the Endesa League, coach Joan Peñarroya will find himself for this Canarian tour with a new setback after the positive for COVID-19 of the Valencian forward Josep Puerto, who joins Víctor Claver (injured in the left foot) as sidelined players. LEB Plata young players Millán Jiménez and Alejandro Bellver will complete the roster for the next two games.

 

Driven by the good feelings of an open streak that is now seven wins in a row and after two solid games at La Fonteta, the Taronja squad closes the week on a court where they have lost on their last two visits, but where they have a positive balance of 8-2.

 

This clash in which the two most valued centers in the competition (Dubljevic and Shermadini) will face each other will also mean the first reunion with shooting guard Joan Sastre, who left our Club this summer to set course for the Aurinegro team after five seasons and 237 games defending our colors. Valencia Basket currently occupies the fifth position in the Endesa League, with a balance of 10-6.

 

Rosters

LENOVO TENERIFE

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

2

Tobias Borg

Suecia

Escolta

1.83

6

Bruno Fitipaldo

Uruguay/Italia

Base

1.83

9

Marcelinho Huertas

Brasil/Italia

Base

1.91

10

Sasu Salin

Finlandia

Escolta

1.90

13

Sergio Rodríguez

España

Alero

2.04

15

Joan Sastre

España

Escolta

2.01

19

Giorgi Shermadini

Georgia

Pívot

2.17

20

Dejan Todorovic

Serbia

Alero

1.96

22

Emir Sulejmanovic

Bosnia/Finlandia

Ala-pívot

2.05

33

Kyle Wiltjer

EE.UU

Ala-pívot

2.06

35

Fran Guerra

España

Pívot

2.14

42

Aaron Doornekamp

Canadá/Holanda

Ala-pívot

2.01

 

Txus Vidorreta

 

Entrenador

 

 

VALENCIA BASKET

Nº

Nombre

Nacimiento

Posición

Alt.

0

Neno Dimitrijevic

Macedonia del N.

Base

1.90

3

Klemen Prepelic

Eslovenia

Escolta

1.91

4

Jaime Pradilla

España

Ala-pívot

2.05

6

Xabi López-Arostegui

España

Alero

2.00

9

Sam Van Rossom

Bélgica

Base

1.88

10

Mike Tobey

EE.UU

Pívot

2.13

14

Bojan Dubljevic

Montenegro

Pívot

2.05

16

Millán Jiménez

España

Alero

1.99

24

Martin Hermannsson

Islandia

Base

1.90

41

Jasiel Rivero

Cuba

Ala-pívot

2.06

42

Alejandro Bellver

España

Alero

1.99

99

Louis Labeyrie

Francia

Ala-pívot

2.08

 

Sidelined

 

 

 

1

Víctor Claver

España

Alero

2.08

2

Josep Puerto

España

Alero

1.99

Joan Peñarroya

Entrenador

 

REFEREES: Antonio Conde - Luis Miguel Castillo - Alfonso Olivares