Starting the match with Doğuş, Granger, Cedi, Brown and Dunston, Anadolu Efes scored the first point with captain Doğuş and Granger’s three-pointers and led the score table 6-2 towards going into the second minute. After Dunston and Cedi’s underneath shots, Granger scored 7 points and by the 7th-minute, the score table was set to 17-13. Remaining 3-minute duration the rival team scored and our team left the first 10 minutes of the game trailing 22-17. Starting the second period with Brown’s mid-range shot, Anadolu Efes brought the score to 21-26 at the 12:30 minutes with Thomas’s score. Perasovic called for a time out when the score table was set to 21-32 at the 13th minute. Returning from the time-out Paul scored 4 points and lowered the score difference to 7 points at the 14th minute: 25-32. Granger and Dunston scored one point each in the painted area, then Paul scored a three-pointer and brought down the score difference to 4 points at the 16th minute, then the hosting team called for a time-out: 32-36. Returning from the time-out Granger brought down the score difference to two points, and then towards the end of the quarter, Dunston and Brown duo balanced the score: 39-39. Remaining duration Cedi scored and Anadolu Efes finished the first half trailing 41-44.

Starting the second period with Brown’s offense, Anadolu Efes brought down the score difference to 2 points, then with Dunston’s fancy dunk, our team led the score table at the 21:30: 45-44. From this moment on the night’s scorer, Granger, took the wheel and scored continuing 6 points and scored his 20th point, also helped our team to lead the score: 51-48. Brown raised the score difference to 5 points at the 26th minute, then with Granger’s points the score was brought to 58-50 at the 27th minute. Anadolu Efes reached to the 60th point with Honeycutt’s 2 points from the free-throw and went into the last 1:40 minutes of the quarter with underneath points and set the score table to 60-59. Starting the final quarter with Paul’s three-pointer, our team led the score at the 31st minute: 63-59. At the 31:30 the hosting team balanced the score, then Brown scored 2 points from the free-throw and brought the score to 65-63 at 32:30. Anadolu Efes was trailing at the 35th minute, then after Dunston’s scores, Honeycutt scored a three-pointer and at the 37th-minute, Anadolu Efes was 2 points ahead: 70-68. Scoring with going to the hoop, captain Doğuş raised the score difference to 4 points, then Honeycutt’s defensive rebound was turned into a point by Brown and Anadolu Efes led the score table in the last 45 seconds of the game: 74-68. Remaining duration Paul scored 2 more points and Anadolu Efes won the game 76-68.