Barça, forced to win against Valencia

Start the Barça playoff for the league title, the only one they can achieve this year, in a rarefied environment. The run-run that accompanies the section since the defeat in the Final Four has gone in crescendo this past week, with some big budget cuts now poised to be savage. With Mirotic’s contract in question and the continuity of Jasikevicius in doubt, Valencia Basket visits the Palau in a duel that entails a lot of danger. Those from Mumbrú have finished eighth in the regular league, but they have already shown what they are capable of in the Euroleague. A team worked, that can beat Barça, and start a fire. The Catalans are almost forced to win the competition and a defeat in the first round would be a catastrophe. The collapse of the section.

As for what will be seen on the parquet, on the Barça side, few surprises. Higgins will miss all the playoff (it is the only casualty) and Jasikevicius will not make inventions. With Da Silva almost certainly out, the management of quotas has hurt him a lot this season, the Lithuanian coach will continue to bet on the group of players that has led them to finish first in the regular season. It is worth noting the excellent moment of Abrines, which is also not a flash in the pan: it has been very successful for several weeks now. With Satoransky and Laprovittola on the outside and Mirotic and Vesely on the inside, the rotation is predictable. But no less dangerous for that.

Valencia has signed an irregular regular season, but has ended up getting into playoff. Dubljevic is a player who has traditionally caused problems for Barça, but he is by no means the visitors’ only weapon. With the casualties of Van Rossom, Millán Jiménez and Xabi López-Arostegui, Mumbrú will have to juggle the quotas. Harper can sit out to benefit James Webb and Jasiel Rivero.

THIS IS HOW THEY ARRIVE

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Valencia Basketball

TEMPLATES

	pos.	Height	Age
twenty-one Alex Abrines	AND	198	29
22 Cory Higgins	TO	196	33
55 give me sarr	TO	198	16
46 james naji	P	208	19
6 Jan Veseley	P	213	33
24 Kyle Kuric	AND	193	33
23 Mike Toby	P	213	28
twenty Nicholas Laprovittola	B.	188	33
10 Nikola Kalinic	TO	202	31
33 Nikola Mirotic	PA	208	32
3 Oriol Pauli	TO	201	29
1 oscar da silva	TO		24

	pos.	Height	Age
14 Bojan Dubljevic	P	205	31
7 chris jones	AND		30
8 Guillem Ferrando	B.		twenty-one
5 J.Webb III	TO	203	29
4 Jaime Pradilla	TO	202	22
0 Jared Harper	B.	177	25
41 Jasiel Rivero	TO	206	29
12 jonah radebaugh	AND		25
2 Josep Puerto	AND	199	24
3 Klemen Prepelic	B.	191	30
twenty-one kyle alexander	TO	208	26
55 Lucas Mari	B.	181	17