Took the Lead in the Series: 71-64

We were the guests of Galatasaray Nef in the third match of the ING Basketball Super League play-off semi-finals and we won the game 71-64. We finished the first half of the match played at Sinan Erdem Dome, 29-30 behind.

After this result, we took the 2-1 lead in the series. The fourth match of the series will be played on Thursday, June 2, at Sinan Erdem Dome. If we are victorious in this match, we will advance to the final in the play-offs.

While our team started the game with Larkin, Micic, Singleton, Dunston, and Pleiss starting five, we took the lead 3-2 at 1:30 with Elijah's three-pointer. We continued to score with Elijah after Singleton's hit and tied 9-9 in the sixth minute. We scored points under the basket with Dunston and Pleiss in the remaining part and we finished the first 10 minutes of the game behind 15-18. We started the second quarter with Dunston and Pleiss' points, and we were up 19-18 at the 11th minute. The home team's timeout came as Elijah scored after Dunston's defensive rebound: 21-18. On the return from the time-out, we made the score 25-22 in the 16th minute with the points from Elijah and Larkin. We had four more points with Dunston in the remaining part and finished the first half of the game 29-30 behind.

When the score was 29-35 in the first minute of the second half, coach Ergin Ataman took a time-out. After the timeout, we made the score 34-37 in the 23rd minute with the points from Dunston and Pleiss. After Dunston's stylish dunk and a three-pointer hit, we were ahead 39-37 in the 25th minute. After micic's three-pointer, we were ahead 46-43 in the 28th minute with points from Elijah. In the last minute of the quarter, Pleiss also hit a hit from behind the three-point line and we were leading 49-45 into the last 10 minutes of the game. When the score reached 49-52 at 32:30 in the final period, coach Ergin Ataman took a time-out. After the timeout, Micic's three-pointer tied the score at 33:30: 52-52. Our team's three-pointers came from Elijah and Larkin, and we took the lead again in the 35th minute: 58-57. Micic responded in the same way to the opposing team's three-pointer, and we were leading 61-60 in the last 3:30 minutes of the match. While Micic's one-hit free throws brought the score to 62-60 in the 37th minute, we brought the score to 64-60 in the last two minutes of the game with Singleton's lay-up. In the remaining two minutes, we scored three more points with Micic and four more points with Larkin, and we won the match 71-64.

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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 33:46 9 1 / 4 %25,00 1 / 7 %14,29 4 / 4 %100,00 1 3 4 10 0 3 0 1 0 11
2 Chris Singleton 19:05 4 2 / 3 %66,67 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 4 4 2 0 0 0 4 0 9
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 36:32 16 5 / 8 %62,50 2 / 7 %28,57 0 / 0 %0,00 2 6 8 2 3 0 1 2 0 22
10 Ömercan İlyasoğlu 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
11 Erten Gazi 00:31 0 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Egemen Güven 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 14:53 0 0 / 1 %0,00 0 / 2 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 1 0 1
21 Tibor Pleiss 28:47 9 2 / 4 %50,00 1 / 4 %25,00 2 / 2 %100,00 2 6 8 0 1 1 0 0 0 12
22 Vasilije Micić 35:12 13 0 / 2 %0,00 4 / 9 %44,44 1 / 5 %20,00 0 3 3 4 1 1 0 3 0 9
42 Bryant Dunston 31:14 20 7 / 8 %87,50 1 / 2 %50,00 3 / 5 %60,00 1 5 6 0 0 0 1 3 0 23
  TOPLAM   71 17 / 30 %56,67 9 / 31 %29,03 10 / 16 %62,50 7 28 35 20 5 6 3 14 0 87
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