Valencia, Madrid and Barça, with problems in the Super Cup

Although this summer has not been like the last, when, after the postponement of the Games, the ACB teams were able to chain vacations and preseason at ease, the internationals have had more time to prepare at their clubs than in September with Eurobasket or World Cup , in which they reach the Super Cup almost without training. Several of those who were at the Tokyo Olympics will play tomorrow in Tenerife (Barça-Valencia, 7pm; Lenovo-Madrid, 10pm) after almost three weeks working out on their teams: Laprovittola, Abrines, Prepelic, Claver and Tobey. While the six Madridistas (Llull, Heurtel, Rudy, Abalde, Yabusele and Poirier), as is usual with Laso, have had one more week of vacation than their rivals because the season is very long and the big titles are decided at final.

A course, in which before raising the curtain, casualties are already dragged for various reasons: long-term injuries, the wear and tear of the Olympic summer and the harshness of the preseason itself. The Super Cup will begin this Saturday with Lenovo Tenerife as host, perhaps the only one that has not had notable physical setbacks, awaiting the reappearance, increasingly closer, of the guard Dejan Todorovic, who broke for the second time a year ago year the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee. His opponent in the semifinals, Madrid, accumulates the long-term casualties of Thompkins (since May due to an arthroscopy in the left knee) and Randolph (ruptured left Achilles tendon in December) and has just lost the Olympian Abalde (muscle injury in the right leg). Two or three weeks out, which almost ruled him out for the start of the League on the 19th. The youth squad Tristan Vukcevic is ready after missing two of the three friendlies and Eli John Ndiaye continues to train with the first team.

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In the other duel this Saturday, Barça recovers Oriola, absent in the Catalan League, and has serious doubts about its star signing, the Turkish Sertac Sanli, which is not going to force with a fissure in the big toe of the left foot. While his rival in the Santiago Martín pavilion, Valencia Basket, will be presented with a wide casualty part. Forward Xabi López-Arostegui underwent surgery on his left ankle on Wednesday (at least a month KO) and his absence was joined by base Dimitrijevic and center Labeyrie, both with muscular problems. Tobey, on the other hand, has recovered after suffering a viral problem and Prepelic (ankle) also. Joan Peñarroya, who makes his debut as a taronja, can take homegrown players Guillem Ferrando, Millán Jiménez and Argentine Gonzalo Bressan, point guard, forward and center, to the island, respectively. There is a title at stake.

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