Champion of Turkish Airlines Euroleague 2020-2021 Season: Anadolu Efes

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. 

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Anadolu Efes Player Statistics
# Player Min Pts 2P 3P FT OR DR R A St To B F FR EFFP
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
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Opponent Team Player Statistics
# Player Min Pts 2P 3P FT OR DR R A St To B F FR EFFP
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   8117 / 37 %45.95 8 / 30 %26.67 23 / 29 %79.31 17 21 38 10 5 14 3 30 25 68
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