We were guests of Serbia's Crvena Zvezda in the 27th-week match of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague and we were defeated 75-94. We finished the first half of the match, which was played at the Aleksandar Nikolic Hall, 45-49 behind.
Our three point guards, Doğuş Balbay, Vasilije Micic, and Shane Larkin, did not play due to injuries.
While our team started the game with Beaubois, Buğrahan, Clyburn, M'Baye, and Zizic starting five, we were ahead 5-0 in the second minute with the points of Zizic and Beaubois. Our team, which scored M'Baye and Buğrahan's points, brought the score to 15-9 in the fifth minute with Zizic's layup. After Beaubois' four points, Elijah's layup brought the score to 23-16 in the eighth minute. After Clyburn contributed four points in the remaining part, we finished the first 10 minutes of the game ahead 25-20. We started the second period with Clyburn's five points and we were ahead 30-26 in the 12th minute. After Dunston's lay-up, we got another basket with Clyburn and increased the lead to eight points in the 13th minute: 34-26. We couldn't score in the next two minutes and the score was 34-36 in the 15th minute and coach Ergin Ataman took a timeout. We balanced the score at 17:30 with six points from Zizic on the return of the timeout: 40-40. We scored two points with Elijah and three points with Buğrahan in the remaining time and finished the first half of the game behind 45-49.
Our first hit in the second half came at 12:30, with Beaubois behind the three-point line: 48-55. The score was 54-59 in the 25th minute with M'Baye's two three-pointers in a row, while M'Baye found another three-pointer after Zizic's four points and narrowed the gap to three points in the 28th minute: 61-64. After Beaubois's three-pointer, Elijah scored three points in the basket foul position and put our team ahead again at 29:30: 67-66. After the basket from the opposing team in the remaining section, we were behind 67-68 in the last 10 minutes of the match. We started the final period with Elijah's three-pointer, leading 70-68 into the 32nd minute. While the score was 70-78 in the 34th minute, we brought the score to 72-78 at 34:30 with Zizic's basket. With Beaubois's basket, the score was 74-83 in the 36th minute. We could not take the lead in the remaining part and after one point by Clyburn, we lost the match 75-94.
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| # | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rodrigue Beaubois | 27:33 | 15 | 3 / 4 %75,00 | 3 / 3 %100,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 15 |
| 2 | Chris Singleton | 09:39 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Karahan Tuan Efeoğlu | 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 | 19:49 | 10 | 3 / 6 %50,00 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 1 / 1 %100,00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | Erten Gazi | 04:55 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -4 |
| 12 | Will Clyburn | 35:36 | 12 | 4 / 6 %66,67 | 1 / 6 %16,67 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 21 |
| 14 | Furkan Haltalı | 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 |
| 19 | Buğrahan Tuncer | 32:07 | 8 | 1 / 5 %20,00 | 2 / 5 %40,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 21 | Tibor Pleiss | 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 |
| 24 | Amath M'Baye | 30:21 | 12 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 4 / 4 %100,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 18 |
| 41 | Ante Žižić | 28:24 | 16 | 7 / 9 %77,78 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 2 / 4 %50,00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| 42 | Bryant Dunston | 11:36 | 2 | 1 / 1 %100,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| TOPLAM | 75 | 19 / 32 %59,38 | 11 / 21 %52,38 | 4 / 7 %57,14 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 16 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 21 | 18 | 79 |
94| # | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vildoza, Luca | 20:20 | 6 | 1 / 3 %33.33 | 1 / 3 %33.33 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Lazarevic, Stefan | 21:04 | 5 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 2 / 2 %100.00 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 7 | Campazzo, Facundo | 23:53 | 22 | 4 / 5 %80.00 | 3 / 3 %100.00 | 5 / 7 %71.43 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 30 |
| 9 | Mitrovic, Luka | 23:37 | 10 | 4 / 5 %80.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 2 / 4 %50.00 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
| 12 | Martin, Hassan | 05:42 | 2 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Dobric, Ognjen | 24:42 | 15 | 3 / 4 %75.00 | 3 / 5 %60.00 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| 20 | Ivanovic, Nikola | 0 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Nedovic, Nemanja | 15:29 | 9 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 2 / 5 %40.00 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 27 | Markovic, Stefan | 14:32 | 3 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 32 | Kuzmic, Ognjen | 10:41 | 5 | 2 / 3 %66.67 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 33 | Petrusev, Filip | 12:43 | 7 | 3 / 6 %50.00 | 0 / 3 %0.00 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 50 | Bentil, Benjamin | 27:17 | 10 | 4 / 6 %66.67 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 2 / 2 %100.00 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| TOPLAM | 94 | 23 / 36 %63.89 | 11 / 21 %52.38 | 15 / 22 %68.18 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 25 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 18 | 20 | 105 |
