We were guests of AX Armani Exchange Milan in the first match of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague play-off and we won the game 64-48. Our team was 29-26 ahead in the first half of the match played at Mediolanum Forum.
After this result, we took a 1-0 lead in the series. The second match of the series will be played on Thursday, April 21, at the Mediolanum Forum.
We started with Larkin, Micic, Anderson, Moerman, and Dunston starting five, and we got the score of 4-2 in the third minute with the points of Anderson and Dunston duo. With Moerman and Dunston's points, we were ahead 11-8 in the seventh minute. We couldn't find a score in the remaining time and we were behind 11-16 in the first 10 minutes of the match. We started the second period with Pleiss and Micic's points and tied the score in the 12th minute: 16-16. We took the lead again at 13:30 with Singleton's three-pointer: 19-16. Another three-pointer came from Larkin, bringing the score to 22-16 at 16:30. After the score came to 22-22 in the 18th minute, we scored with Larkin, Beaubois, and Dunston in the remaining section and finished the first half of the match ahead 29-26.
Our first basket came from Anderson in the second half, and Micic's three-pointer brought the score to 34-26 in the 22nd minute. With Pleiss's basket, we increased the lead to double digits for the first time in the match at 22:30 and the home team's timeout came: 36-26. On the return from the time-out, we were ahead 40-28 in the 24th minute with Larkin and Micic's points. After the three-pointers from Micic and Elijah in the final part of the third quarter, we were leading 46-34 in the last 10 minutes of the game. Our first hit in the final period was Singleton, behind the three-point line: 49-37. With Larkin and Micic's points, we were ahead 56-42 in the 34th minute. After Singleton's only hit from the foul line, Larkin found the three-pointer to bring the score to 60-47 at 36:30. While we were leading 60-48 in the last 1:30 minute of the match, we scored four points with Micic in the last 1:30 minutes and we won the match 64-48.
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| # | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Shane Larkin | 33:48 | 16 | 3 / 9 %33,33 | 3 / 6 %50,00 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 1 | Rodrigue Beaubois | 10:51 | 1 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Chris Singleton | 19:04 | 7 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 2 / 3 %66,67 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Elijah Bryant | 12:50 | 3 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 18 | Adrien Moerman | 20:56 | 3 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 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 | 14:46 | 5 | 2 / 5 %40,00 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 22 | Vasilije Micić | 29:21 | 16 | 4 / 8 %50,00 | 2 / 8 %25,00 | 2 / 3 %66,67 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| 23 | James Anderson | 19:01 | 4 | 2 / 2 %100,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 33 | Filip Petrušev | 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 |
| 42 | Bryant Dunston | 25:03 | 9 | 4 / 7 %57,14 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 1 / 1 %100,00 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 44 | Krunoslav Simon | 14:20 | 0 | 0 / 2 %0,00 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | -2 |
| TOPLAM | 64 | 15 / 35 %42,86 | 9 / 23 %39,13 | 7 / 12 %58,33 | 11 | 29 | 40 | 14 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 17 | 19 | 73 |
48| # | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Melli, Nicolo | 30:58 | 10 | 2 / 5 %40.00 | 1 / 3 %33.33 | 3 / 4 %75.00 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 15 |
| 10 | Grant, Jerian | 14:47 | 0 | 0 / 2 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 |
| 13 | Rodriguez, Sergio | 18:40 | 2 | 1 / 3 %33.33 | 0 / 4 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | -7 |
| 15 | Tarczewski, Kaleb | 09:22 | 0 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Ricci, Giampaolo | 02:05 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 |
| 22 | Hall, Devon | 17:56 | 8 | 2 / 3 %66.67 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 23 | Delaney, Malcolm | 22:36 | 1 | 0 / 2 %0.00 | 0 / 3 %0.00 | 1 / 3 %33.33 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | -1 |
| 30 | Daniels, Troy | 10:00 | 8 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 2 / 4 %50.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 31 | Shields, Shavon | 34:10 | 8 | 2 / 4 %50.00 | 1 / 5 %20.00 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 40 | Alviti, Davide | 07:05 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 2 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -2 |
| 42 | Hines, Kyle | 16:08 | 2 | 1 / 4 %25.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 2 %0.00 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | -1 |
| 50 | Bentil, Ben | 16:13 | 9 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 3 / 4 %75.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| TOPLAM | 48 | 9 / 27 %33.33 | 8 / 28 %28.57 | 6 / 12 %50.00 | 9 | 23 | 32 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 33 |
