After this result, we brought the series to 2-0 and reached the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, we will fight against Beşiktaş Icrypex, which passed Tofaş with a 2-0 series.

Starting the match with Micic, Beaubois, Simon, Singleton, and Sertaç, Anadolu Efes’s first points were scored by Micic. Beaubois’s three-pointer at the 4th minute set the score table to 5-6, then Sertaç and Micic scored at 6:30 and our team was 10-8 ahead. Singleton scored in the remaining duration, and the score was a tie at the end of the first quarter: 16-16. Starting the second quarter with Pleiss’s 4 points, our team was 20-16 ahead at the 11th minute. Pleiss and Simon’s baskets followed by Larkin’s consecutive 8 points at the 16th minute and the score difference went up to double digits: 32-19. Pleiss scored underneath, then Micic’s basket set the score of the first half with a 15-point difference: 38-23.

Starting the second half with Beaubois’s three-pointer, Anadolu Efes was 41-28 ahead at the 22nd minute. Singleton and Pleiss’s baskets at the 25th minute set the score table to 46-32. Simon and Micic scored from the free-throw line, while Sertaç and Yiğitcan scored from the paint and our team was 56-44 ahead at the end of the third quarter. Starting the final quarter with Micic’s layup, our team was 58-46 ahead at the 31st minute. While the rival team set the score table to 58-51 at the 32nd-minute coach Ergin Ataman called a time-out. Returning from the time-out Simon scored 7 points and our team was 65-54 ahead at the 33rd minute. Pleiss and Beaubois’s points at the 36th minute set the score table to 71-59. Singleton, Larkin, Pleiss, and Erten scored in the remaining duration, and our team won the match with a score of 83-67.