Two former teammates who played together at FC Barcelona for three seasons will now face each other as Valencia Basket's Victor Claver goes at it with Zalgiris Kaunas's Rolands Smits on Friday night in Round 10.
Marquee matchup: Valencia's Claver vs. Zalgiris's Smits
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Regular Season
Round 10 of 34
Regular Season
Valencia BasketVBC
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Zalgiris KaunasZAL
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Claver is averaging 6.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.0 assists and 1.0 steals while coming mainly off the bench for almost 20 minutes per night in nine appearances this season. Against Real earlier this week, he had a career-high 5 steals, plus 6 points and 5 rebounds coming off his weakest performance of the season.
Something similar is happening with Smits, who is averaging 9.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.1 assists as a starter in nine games this season, but who also had one of his weakest games so far against Baskonia. He will be trying to bounce back just like Claver did against Real and hopefully lead Zalgiris to a win to end its Spanish tour.