We are in the Play-off Finals: 104-77

In the fifth match of the ING Basketball Super League play-off semi-finals, we hosted Galatasaray Nef and won the match 104-77. We were 51-42 ahead in the first half of the match played at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

After this result, we brought the series to 3-2 and advanced to the final. In the final, we will play with Fenerbahçe Beko for the championship.

Our team started the game with Larkin, Micic, Elijah, Moerman, and Dunston starting five, and we were ahead 5-0 in the first minute with the points of Micic and Larkin duo. In this section, our team scored eight points from Dunston's hand, and at 5:30 the score came to 13-15. After Moerman and Larkin's points, the three-pointer from our young player Erten we passed 20-22 in the eighth minute of the game. In the remaining two minutes, we scored four points with Micic and two points with Elijah, and the first 10 minutes of the game ended 26-26. We started the second period with Larkin's three-pointer and took the lead again at 11:30: 29-28. After Elijah and Singleton's lay-ups, we increased the lead to five points in the 14th minute: 35-30. With points from Micic and Larkin, we were ahead in the last three minutes of the half with a score of 43-40. After Singleton's three-pointer, we brought the score to 48-42 in the last minute of the half with the layup we found with Moerman in the fast break. We had three more points with Larkin in the remaining part and finished the first half of the game 51-42 ahead.

On our first offense in the second half, we hit three points with Micic and increased the lead to double digits for the first time in the game: 54-44. After Dunston's dunk, Micic's three-pointer increased the lead to 15 points in the 23rd minute: 59-44. Injured during the three-point field goal, Micic was out of the game. Larkin, who was stopped by a foul during the three-point field goal, also scored the free throw, and we scored four points in one attack: 63-44. Buğrahan, named after Dunston and Elijah's points, scored a three-pointer, bringing the score to 72-51 in the 27th minute. In the remaining time, Larkin hit three consecutive three-pointers and we were leading 81-53 into the last 10 minutes of the game. With the points from Buğrahan and Moerman, the difference reached 30 points in the 33rd minute: 88-58. While Elijah also contributed to the score in this section, we were leading 98-73 in the last three minutes of the game with Buğrahan's three-pointer. While our 101st point came with Erten's three-pointer, we scored one point with Egemen and two points with Moerman in the last two minutes of the match, and we won the match 104-77.

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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 30:40 28 2 / 3 %66,67 7 / 9 %77,78 3 / 4 %75,00 1 3 4 6 1 4 0 0 0 31
2 Chris Singleton 21:57 10 2 / 3 %66,67 2 / 3 %66,67 0 / 0 %0,00 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 11
3 Yiğitcan Saybir 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
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 30:37 13 4 / 6 %66,67 1 / 1 %100,00 2 / 2 %100,00 3 7 10 1 0 1 0 2 0 21
10 Ömercan İlyasoğlu 02:45 0 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
11 Erten Gazi 15:59 6 0 / 0 %0,00 2 / 3 %66,67 0 / 0 %0,00 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 3 0 7
15 Egemen Güven 02:45 1 0 / 1 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 1 / 2 %50,00 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2
18 Adrien Moerman 27:50 10 5 / 8 %62,50 0 / 3 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 4 4 0 3 1 0 2 0 10
19 Buğrahan Tuncer 20:03 8 1 / 2 %50,00 2 / 4 %50,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 2 2 4 2 1 0 0 0 12
22 Vasilije Micić 19:11 14 3 / 7 %42,86 2 / 2 %100,00 2 / 2 %100,00 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 1 0 12
42 Bryant Dunston 28:13 14 5 / 7 %71,43 0 / 0 %0,00 4 / 4 %100,00 2 2 4 5 1 0 2 4 0 24
  TOPLAM   104 22 / 37 %59,46 16 / 25 %64,00 12 / 14 %85,71 9 20 29 23 9 10 2 16 0 131
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