Finishing Second in ING Basketball Super League: 80 - 92

We hosted Fenerbahçe Beko in the fourth match of the ING Basketball Super League play-off final and we were defeated 80-92. We finished the first half of the match played at Sinan Erdem Dome, 35-41 behind.

After this result, we finished the ING Basketball Super League in second place.

While our team started the game with Larkin, Micic, Elijah, Singleton, and Pleiss starting five, our first basket came with Singleton's dunk. After Pleiss and Singleton's hits from the foul line, the fifth minute passed with a score of 7-11 while Micic scored with a lay-up. In the second five-minute part of the period, we scored three points with Larkin and two points with Dunston, and the first 10 minutes of the game ended 12-24. When the score was 12-28 in the first minute of the second quarter, coach Ergin Ataman took a time-out. On the return from the timeout, after Larkin's two accurate free throws, Dunston scored our first three-pointer of the game 12 minutes into the game: 17-28. Elijah and Larkin also contributed to the score in this section, and the score came to 24-33 in the 15th minute. After Micic's layup, Singleton and Pleiss' points made the score 30-36 in the 16th minute. After points from Micic, Singleton, and Pleiss in the last part of the half, we finished the first half of the game 35-41 behind.

While our first basket in the second half came from Pleiss, we narrowed the lead to one point at 21:30 with the points of Micic and Singleton: 42-43. After Buğrahan's three-pointer, with five points from Pleiss, the 24th minute was passed with a score of 50-51. After the score was 50-61 in the 26th minute, we brought the score to 57-63 in the 28th minute with the points of Pleiss, Elijah, and Micic. After Larkin and Elijah's hits, we were behind 61-70 in the last 10 minutes of the match. Our first points in the final period came from Singleton and Pleiss, and the 31st minute was entered with a score of 65-73. When the score was 65-77 at 32:30, coach Ergin Ataman took a time-out. After the timeout, Singleton's three-pointer brought the score to 68-79 at 33:30. With Elijah's four accurate free throws, the final 2:30 minutes of the match was entered with a score of 72-87. Even though we scored points with Dunston, Ömercan, and Yiğitcan in the remaining section, we were defeated 80-92 in the match.

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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 33:16 10 2 / 3 %66,67 1 / 5 %20,00 3 / 3 %100,00 1 1 2 6 2 4 0 1 0 11
2 Chris Singleton 37:08 17 4 / 6 %66,67 2 / 4 %50,00 3 / 4 %75,00 0 4 4 0 0 1 1 3 0 16
3 Yiğitcan Saybir 01:19 2 1 / 1 %100,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
4 Doğuş Balbay 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 27:50 10 3 / 3 %100,00 0 / 1 %0,00 4 / 4 %100,00 0 4 4 1 0 1 0 4 0 13
10 Ömercan İlyasoğlu 01:42 3 0 / 0 %0,00 1 / 1 %100,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4
11 Erten Gazi 08:04 0 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 1 %0,00 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 2
15 Egemen Güven 01:42 0 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Buğrahan Tuncer 11:30 3 0 / 1 %0,00 1 / 3 %33,33 0 / 0 %0,00 3 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 0 3
21 Tibor Pleiss 26:28 17 6 / 9 %66,67 0 / 1 %0,00 5 / 6 %83,33 0 3 3 1 2 1 0 3 0 17
22 Vasilije Micić 36:19 10 4 / 8 %50,00 0 / 4 %0,00 2 / 2 %100,00 0 4 4 7 0 6 0 3 0 7
42 Bryant Dunston 14:42 8 1 / 3 %33,33 2 / 2 %100,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 10
  TOPLAM   80 21 / 34 %61,76 7 / 21 %33,33 17 / 20 %85,00 4 16 20 18 8 14 3 19 0 85