We Started the Double Match Week with Zalgiris Kaunas Win: 80-70

We hosted Lithuania's Zalgiris Kaunas team in the 22nd-week match of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague and we won the match 80-70. We were ahead 38-28 in the first half of the match played at Sinan Erdem Dome.

While Micic, Beaubois, Elijah, M'Baye, and Dunston were our starting five, our team started the match with a score of 6-6 in the third minute with the points of Dunston and M'Baye duo. Dunston continued to score and Elijah contributed to the score, making it 14-16 in the ninth minute. In our last offense, Clyburn hit the field goal and the first 10 minutes of the fight ended with a 16-16 tie. Starting the second period with Clyburn's field goal, our team brought the score to 21-19 in the 11th minute after Larkin scored three points. When Clyburn scored a three-pointer, we brought the score to 24-19 at 13:30 and the visiting team's timeout came. With Zizic and Elijah's points after the time-out, we increased the lead to double digits for the first time in the match in the 17th minute with Clyburn's layup: 33-23. In the remaining time, we scored three points with Micic and two points with Clyburn, and the first half of the game ended with a 38-28 lead.

We started the second half with Clyburn's three-pointer and we were leading 41-28 in the 21st minute. Clyburn, who scored three more points in an and-one position, brought the score to 44-38 at 23:30, while the score was 48-43 in the 26th minute with four points from Larkin. After Micic's five points, we entered the last 10 minutes of the game with a 55-49 lead with Zizic's under-the-rim score. Our first points in the final period came from Beaubois, and we were ahead 60-51 in the 32nd minute. With Zizic and Dunston's lay-ups, we increased the lead to 11 points in the 35th minute: 67-56. After M'Baye's stylish dunk, Micic got the three-point field goal and brought the score to 72-61 in the 37th minute. We entered the last 1:20 minutes of the game with a score of 72-70, and with four points from Larkin and Clyburn, we were leading 76-70 in the last 50 seconds of the game. We maintained our lead in the remaining time and after Beaubois' four points, we won the match 80-70.

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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 28:29 10 2 / 3 %66,67 1 / 3 %33,33 3 / 4 %75,00 0 3 3 4 2 2 0 1 5 17
1 Rodrigue Beaubois 18:21 9 3 / 5 %60,00 1 / 1 %100,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 12
2 Chris Singleton 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
6 Elijah Bryant 28:34 6 3 / 4 %75,00 0 / 2 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 6 6 0 1 4 1 2 2 6
11 Erten Gazi 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
12 Will Clyburn 30:51 19 5 / 9 %55,56 2 / 4 %50,00 3 / 3 %100,00 0 7 7 3 1 1 0 1 5 27
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 01:38 0 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -2
22 Vasilije Micić 31:09 11 0 / 2 %0,00 3 / 4 %75,00 2 / 2 %100,00 1 0 1 5 0 4 0 3 2 8
24 Amath M'Baye 22:53 4 1 / 3 %33,33 0 / 2 %0,00 2 / 2 %100,00 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 5
41 Ante Žižić 13:24 9 4 / 4 %100,00 0 / 0 %0,00 1 / 1 %100,00 2 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 15
42 Bryant Dunston 24:41 12 6 / 8 %75,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 3 2 5 0 0 2 3 4 2 14
  TOPLAM   80 24 / 38 %63,16 7 / 16 %43,75 11 / 12 %91,67 6 22 28 18 7 14 5 14 19 102
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Opponent Team Player Statistics
# Player Min Pts 2P 3P FT OR DR R A St To B F FR EFFP
3 Giedraitis, Dovydas 02:09 0 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 -2
4 Lekavicius, Lukas 20:40 8 1 / 1 %100.00 2 / 3 %66.67 0 / 0 %0.00 0 2 2 1 0 3 0 1 0 6
8 Hayes, Kevarrius 19:26 6 3 / 7 %42.86 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 5 1 6 1 2 2 2 4 0 6
10 Smits, Rolands 24:27 5 1 / 1 %100.00 1 / 5 %20.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 3 3 3 0 1 0 5 0 1
14 Krivas, Motiejus 0 0 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Birutis, Laurynas 11:26 0 0 / 5 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 2 %0.00 2 2 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 -4
16 Lukosiunas, Karolis 03:41 0 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 1 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 -2
17 Brazdeikis, Ignas 29:54 25 6 / 10 %60.00 4 / 5 %80.00 1 / 2 %50.00 2 1 3 3 0 1 0 3 3 23
25 Polonara, Achille 11:29 2 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 1 %0.00 2 / 2 %100.00 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 6
33 Dimsa, Tomas 20:47 7 2 / 4 %50.00 1 / 4 %25.00 0 / 1 %0.00 0 2 2 2 1 3 1 3 3 4
51 Butkevicius, Arnas 23:23 2 0 / 3 %0.00 0 / 2 %0.00 2 / 2 %100.00 1 2 3 1 2 1 0 1 2 1
92 Ulanovas, Edgaras 32:38 15 6 / 10 %60.00 0 / 0 %0.00 3 / 3 %100.00 2 1 3 2 2 1 0 0 3 20
  TOPLAM   7019 / 41 %46.34 8 / 21 %38.10 8 / 12 %66.67 12 16 28 13 8 14 3 19 14 59