Playing on the road against Russia’s CSKA Moskow at the 20th week match-up of Turkish Airlines Euroleague, Anadolu Efes was defeated 77-80. Anadolu Efes was trailing 35-42 at the halftime of the match, played at Megasport Arena.
Starting the match with Heurtel, Paul, Cedi, Brown and Dunston, Anadolu Efes started the game with Cedi’s three-pointer. Scoring 2 points with Brown and Heurtel and 1 point with Paul Anadolu Efes was trailing 8-15 when television time out was called. Returning from the time out Honeycutt’s being included into the game and him scoring a series of 6-0 points lowered the score difference to 1 point: 14-15. Our team got ahead with Granger’s layup and Honeycutt’s 2 free-throws by the 8th minute: 18-17. Scoring with Brown and setting the score to 20-17, Efes scored 4 more points with Dunston and Granger and finished the first 10 minutes trailing 24-25. Starting the second period with an amazing dunk by Dunston, our team got ahead again: 26-25. While both teams were scoring in this part, Paul and Kirk’s points set the score to 31-32 at 15th minute. In the last part of the quarter Anadolu Efes scored with Honeycutt and Heurtel and finished the first-half trailing 35-42.
Starting the second-half Dunston scored with a fancy dunk and brought the score to 37-44 by 21st minute. The rival team’s eight points were responded with Granger’s 2 layups, our team was trailing 41-52 at 24:40 and Perasovic called for time-out. After the time-out Honeycutt and Heurtel scored towards the end of the quarter at 3:30 and score was 45-56. Remaining duration Thomas and Heurtel scored 7 points and Anadolu Efes was trailing 52-65 by the end of the quarter. In the final quarter Brown scored 4 points and score was brought to 56-67 by 33rd minute. After Heurtel’s layup Brown scored with a dunk and the score difference was brought down to nine points, then the hosting team called for a time-out at 33:30: 60-69. After the time-out Honeneycutt scored at 34:20 brought the score to 62-69. After Heurtel’s three points at 36th minute the score was 65-73 and with Dunston’s fancy dunk Anadolu Efes trailed 8 points going into the last 2:45 minutes: 67-75. After Honeycutt’s layup our team scored eight points with Heurtel and brought down the score difference to 2 points in the last 14 seconds of the game: 77-79. Remaining duration Anadolu Efes couldn’t close the score difference and defeated 77-80.
