Starting the match with Larkin, Micic, Anderson, Moerman, and Pleiss, Anadolu Efes’s first points were scored by Anderson. While our team was leading the score table with Micic’s points 4-3, Larkin and Pleiss dup’s points set the score table to 12-6. Within the following 2-minute duration, the score table was set to 12-14, then Simon and Anderson scored and our team was 18-17 ahead. The remaining duration Simon scored 2 and Larkin scored 3 minutes and our team finished the first quarter 23-22 ahead. Starting the second quarter with a 5-minute silence, our team scored at the 15th minute with Simon’s three-pointer and set the score table to 26-32. After Pleiss and Larkin scored at the 18th minute, the score difference was brought down to 2 points: 32-34. Micic and Singleton scored and our team was trailing 37-38 at the last minute of the quarter, then within the remaining duration, our team failed to score and head into the changing rooms trailing 37-42.

Starting the second half with Micic and Anderson’s three-pointers, our team set the score tablet o 43-44 at the 22nd minute. After Pleiss scored with Anderson’s defensive rebound at the 23rd minute, our team started to lead the score table with this 8-0 series and the rival team called a time-out: 45-44. Returning from the time-out Larkin scored another basket and our team was 47-44 ahead at the 24th minute. After Pleiss’s 4 and Micic’s 2 points, our team was 53-48 ahead at the last 2-minute duration of the quarter. Then within the remaining duration, Moerman scored 4 more points and set the score of the quarter: 57-50. Starting the final quarter with Moerman’s 5 points, our team raised the score difference to 10 points at 32:30: 62-52. Sertaç scored a mid-range shot at the 34th minute and set the score table to 64-55, then Pleiss scored 2 points from the free-throw line and set the score table to 66-58 at 34:30. Within the remaining 3-minute duration, the score table was set to 66-64, then Larkin scored a layup and our team was 68-64 ahead at the last 2:30 minutes. After Micic scored 2 points from the free-throw line, our team was 70-67 ahead at the last 2 minutes of the match. While the score table was set to 70-72 at the last minute, Larkin scored 1 point from the free-throw line and set the score table to 71-72. In the last 11 seconds our team was trailing 71-74, remaining duration our team couldn’t score and lost the match 71-74.