With the ceremony held before the match, the flag of our championship, which we won in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague last season, took its place at the Sinan Erdem Sports Hall.

Starting the match with Larkin, Micic, Anderson, Moerman, and Petrusev, Anadolu Efes’s first points were scored by Micic and the score was set to 4-5 at the 2nd minute. Petrusev contributed with 4 points in this part, then Singleton’s points set the score table to 12-15 heading into the television time-out. Returning from the time-out Micic scored a three-pointer and the score was a tie: 15-15. The rival set the score table to 15-24 following 2:30 minutes and so coach Ergin Ataman called a time-out. Returning from the time-out Micic scored 4 and Moerman scored 2 points and our team finished the first quarter trailing 21-26. Starting the second quarter with Dunston, Beaubois, and Anderson’s points, our team was 28-26 ahead at the 11th minute. Anderson’s underneath basket followed by Dunston and Micic’s 2 points each from the free-throw line at the 14th minute and the score table was set to 34-38. Beaubois and Micic scored three-pointers and set the score table to 40-42, then Larkin scored 4 points at 17:30 and the score was a tie again: 44-44. After the score table was set to 44-51 coach Ergin Ataman called another time-out at the 19th minute. Returning from the time-out Larkin scored 2 more points within the remaining 1 minute and our team was trailing 46-51 at the end of the first half.

Starting the second half with Micic’s three-pointer, our team set the score table to 49-53 at 21:30. While Dunston scored our 51st point, our team head into the television time our setting the score table to 51-63. Returning from the time-out Petrusev scored 3 points and set the score table to 54-67 at the 25th minute. Micic’s three-pointer followed by Moerman and Pleiss’s points at 27:30 and our team set the score table to 61-57. Larkin scored 4 points and Pleiss scored a three-pointer to set the score of the third quarter: 68-79. Starting the final quarter with Pleiss’s fancy dunk, our team brought down the score difference to a single digit: 70-79. Moerman and Pleiss’s underneath points at the 33rd minute set the score table to 74-83, then Micic and Beaubois scored three-pointers and set the score table to 80-92 at the 36th minute. Our team was trailing 85-94 after Larkin and Micic’s points within the last 2 minutes of the match, then Moerman scored three points and-one and set the score table to 88-94. Micic scored a fancy dunk at last 1:24 minutes and the rival team called a time-out: 90-94. Returning from the time-out Moerman scored a three-pointer at the last 52 seconds and our team brought down the score difference to 2 points: 93-95. While the rival team set the score table to 93-97 at the last 35 seconds, Moerman scored 2 points and our team brought down the score difference to 2 points again at the last 18 seconds: 95-97. Captain Doğuş scored 1 point from the free-throw line at the last 9 seconds of the match and set the score table to 96-98, then within the remaining duration, our team couldn’t score and lost the match with a score of 96-100.