Without López-Arostegui, Klemen Prepelic, or Sam Van Rossom, but with the return of Millán Jiménez after qualifying the Valencia Basket subsidiary, L’Horta Godella, for the playoffs for promotion to LEB Oro. The youth squad from La Rioja is the great novelty in the call of Álex Mumbrú to travel to Murcian lands, where today Valencia Basket will face UCAM Murcia willing to confirm its improvement but above all to begin to secure eighth position in four finals against four applicants, the first of which is Sito Alonso’s team, with three fewer victories, but who already surprised at La Fonteta in the first round with a last triple by McFadden (74-75). After participating in the Euroleague, it is time for a double confrontation this week in the Endesa League, first today with UCAM Murcia, and on Saturday with Bilbao Basket, another of the teams that is speeding up its options to get into the fight for the league title. or what is the same, among the eight best in the regular league, a selection that Mumbrú’s men close right now, with seven days to go. Monbus Obradoiro and Río Breogán also await the decision of the taronja and their pursuers to tighten the fight in this final stretch. Exactly the same thing that Valencia Basket needs to try to reach the seventh place that Gran Canaria occupies, seventh with three victories and one more game, although the islanders have the ‘basket average’ to participate in their favor, as well as the general difference of points.
auspicious track
The Palacio de los Deportes in Murcia will host Valencia Basket this afternoon (8:30 p.m., Movistar Deportes 3), which will also be the first visit of American power forward James Webb III. It is a track historically favorable for the taronja, where they have won on five of their last six visits, not always comfortably, and with quite a few tight and exciting finishes. Jared Harper, one of the three non-EU players who has the token disabled for the Endesa League, where only two tokens are allowed for non-Europeans, will not be there either. The positive note in the call-up is Millán Jiménez, a 20-year-old forward, who could return to play for the first team for the first time this season four months after his left ankle operation. The man from Calahorra had reappeared with the LEB Plata affiliate, qualifying for the promotion phase to LEB Oro, and Mumbrú could take advantage of his good mood and form to make his debut this season in the Endesa League.
2023-04-19 02:00:41
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