History

2006-07

acb league

Quarterfinals

The second season in a row without reaching the playoffs for the title requires a new effort to improve the team. Ricard Casas faces his second season as head coach of the first team, with the arrival of proven players in each position.

For the point guard position, Albert Oliver, a talented point guard from Terrasa who had stood out in recent seasons as one of the leaders of Ricoh Manresa. Oliver will be in charge of leading the team along with Vule Avdalovic, who is in his second season at the club.

To reinforce the scoring guard position, the chosen one is Ruben Douglas, a Californian player with Panamanian descent who has just played the World Cup with this national team and is known as a great three-point shooter in his time in Italy and Russia. In the same position comes Jon Stefansson, Icelandic player, the brother of the popular handball player Olafur and winner of a Coppa Italia with Eldo Napoli. Along with them, Mindaugas Timinskas in the small forward position and Víctor Luengo, in what will be his 15th and last season as a first team player. In addition, a new youth player has joined the first team: Víctor Claver, a young 18-year-old red-haired player, international with the national team's youth categories, who will alternate between the small forward and power forward positions.

On the inside, Panamanian Rubén Garcés and Catalan Albert Miralles will continue, and three more players will join the cause. Italian Roberto Chiacig, who lost the 2002 Lyon final, and Dejan Milojevic, a talented Serbian power forward who has been tipped to be a key player in Europe, arrived in the summer. In addition, due to Miralles' physical problems, a new player is hired, Haris Mujezinovic, a globetrotter with experience in many leagues.

The season began not as well as expected and soon, in Day 5, with a run of 1 win and 4 losses, it was decided to change the course. Ricard Casas is dismissed, and in his place comes the Greek coach Fotis Katsikaris. Little by little, the victories began to come, and despite not qualifying for the Copa del Rey in Malaga, the team began to find a good line.

Just in time for the Cup, there is a reshuffle in the roster, with three players leaving: Haris Mujezinovic is cut, and Jon Stefansson and Roberto Chiacig are traded to Lottomatica of Rome in exchange for a sum of money and the loan of the young Greek center Loukas Mavrokefalidis. With Albert Miralles already recovered from his back problems, the outside shooting guard was replaced by the American point guard Justin Hamilton. In the second round, the team's good performance contrasts with the unfortunate news of Dejan Milojevic's serious knee injury, whose place in the inside rotation will be filled with good performance by the Valencian Víctor Claver.

Pamesa Valencia arrives in top form to the final stretch of the league, and enters the Play-Offs as seventh in the standings, curiously obtaining the same second round run as Real Madrid, second and ultimately, rival in the playoffs. Álex Urtasun, on loan during the season, was added to the team for the title playoffs. Pamesa put up a good fight, and only a controversial last play prevented them from taking the first game in Madrid. The Valencians evened the tie in the second in Valencia, but the third and fourth games went to Madrid, who would later win the ACB. However, with the result, Pamesa Valencia would return to Europe.