Anadolu Efes won the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four final match in Cologne, Germany, with 86-81 against Spain’s FC Barcelona team. Anadolu Efes was 39-36 ahead at the half-time of the match that was played in Lanxess Arena.
With this result, we completed the 2020-2021 season as champion in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague.
Starting the match with Larkin, Micic, Simon, Singleton, and Sertaç, Anadolu Efes’s first 8 points were scored by Sertaç and our team was 8-6 ahead in the 4th minute. While the rival team set the score table to 8-11 at the 5th minute, Simon scored a layup and set the score table to 10-11. Singleton and Micic scored 2 points each and Larkin scored 1 point from the free-throw line and our team was trailing 15-20 at the 9th minute. In the remaining duration, our team failed to score and finished the first quarter 15-22 trailing. Starting the second quarter with Moerman’s underneath points, our team was trailing 17-25 at the 12th minute. Larkin was stopped with an unsportsmanlike foul during the fastbreak and scored 2 points from the free-throw line, then Pleiss scored a three-pointer at 12:30 and set the score table to 22-25. The rival team called a time-out and returning from it, Simon scored and brought down the difference to 1 point: 24-25. Pleiss’s mid-range shot followed by Larkin’s 4 points from the free-throw line set the score table to 30-29 at the 16th minute. Micic’s basket followed by Larkin and Sertaç’s 2 points from the free-throw line at 18:30 and our team was 36-29 ahead. In the remaining duration, Moerman scored 2 and Beaubois scored 1 point, and our team head into the changing rooms 39-36 ahead.
Starting the second half with Dunston’s basket, our team was 41-26 ahead. Micic scored 5 points at the 22nd minute and set the score table to 46-39. Larkin’s fancy dunk at 23:30 set the score table to 48-41. Micic was stopped by a foul during another three-pointer shot and so he scored 4 points and the score difference went up to 11 points: 52-41. The rival team’s three-pointer was responded by Larkin with another three-pointer and our team was 55-44 ahead at the 25th minute. Dunston and Micic’s points at 27:30 set the score table to 61-51. Moerman scored our 63rd point, then Beaubois scored 2 points from the free-throw line and our team was 10 points ahead: 65-55. In the remaining duration, our team failed to score and the third quarter ended with a score of 65-58. Starting the final quarter our team was 65-62 ahead, then Sertaç scored a fancy alley-oop at the 33rd minute and set the score table to 67-62. Larkin’s layup at the 34th minute set the score table to 69-64, then within the following 1 minute the score table was set to 69-69 and so coach Ergin Ataman called a time-out. Returning from the time-out Micic scored a three-pointer at 35:30 and our team was ahead again: 72-69. Larkin’s 3 points and-one at 36:20 set the score table to 75-72. After Singleton’s basket, our team was 77-74 ahead at the 37th minute, then Micic scored a layup: 79-74. Micic scored another basket and our team was 81-76 ahead at the last 1:20 minutes Within the last 30 seconds of the match Larkin and Micic scored from the free-throw line and our team won the match with a score of 86-81.
Shane Larkin and Vasilije Micic were selected as the co-MVP for the first time in Turkish Airlines Euroleague’s history after a match, and Vasilije Micic was selected as the Final Four 2021’s MVP.
# | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
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0 | Shane Larkin | 36:37 | 21 | 3 / 5 %60,00 | 1 / 4 %25,00 | 12 / 12 %100,00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 28 |
1 | Rodrigue Beaubois | 10:10 | 3 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 3 / 4 %75,00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
2 | Chris Singleton | 19:25 | 4 | 1 / 1 %100,00 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 2 / 2 %100,00 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
4 | Doğuş Balbay | 00:12 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -1 |
15 | Sertaç Şanlı | 12:57 | 12 | 4 / 8 %50,00 | 0 / 3 %0,00 | 4 / 5 %80,00 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
18 | Adrien Moerman | 20:48 | 6 | 3 / 4 %75,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 2 %0,00 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
19 | Buğrahan Tuncer | 00:00 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
21 | Tibor Pleiss | 07:56 | 5 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
22 | Vasilije Micić | 34:54 | 25 | 6 / 10 %60,00 | 2 / 4 %50,00 | 7 / 8 %87,50 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 28 |
23 | James Anderson | 09:53 | 0 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -1 |
42 | Bryant Dunston | 18:37 | 6 | 2 / 4 %50,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 2 / 2 %100,00 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
44 | Krunoslav Simon | 28:31 | 4 | 2 / 4 %50,00 | 0 / 3 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
TOPLAM | 86 | 22 / 39 %56,41 | 4 / 18 %22,22 | 30 / 35 %85,71 | 7 | 23 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 25 | 30 | 94 |
# | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
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0 | Davies, Brandon | 24:52 | 17 | 6 / 12 %50.00 | 1 / 4 %25.00 | 2 / 5 %40.00 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 18 |
8 | Hanga, Adam | 00:07 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
9 | Bolmaro, Leandro | 25:18 | 7 | 3 / 5 %60.00 | 0 / 2 %0.00 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
10 | Smits, Rolands | 09:27 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -3 |
16 | Gasol, Pau | 13:07 | 1 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
18 | Oriola, Pierre | 0 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
21 | Abrines, Alex | 10:00 | 2 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 2 / 2 %100.00 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
22 | Higgins, Cory | 30:57 | 23 | 2 / 6 %33.33 | 4 / 6 %66.67 | 7 / 7 %100.00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 23 |
24 | Kuric, Kyle | 24:12 | 18 | 2 / 4 %50.00 | 2 / 7 %28.57 | 8 / 8 %100.00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 18 |
30 | Claver, Victor | 14:19 | 2 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
33 | Mirotic, Nikola | 30:17 | 11 | 3 / 7 %42.86 | 1 / 5 %20.00 | 2 / 4 %50.00 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
99 | Calathes, Nick | 17:24 | 0 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 / 3 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | -5 |
TOPLAM | 81 | 17 / 37 %45.95 | 8 / 30 %26.67 | 23 / 29 %79.31 | 17 | 21 | 38 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 30 | 25 | 68 |