Hosting Lithuania’s Zalgiris Kaunas team in the 29th-week match of Turkish Airlines Euroleague, Anadolu Efes won the game 89-62. Anadolu Efes was 49-28 ahead at the half-time of the match that was played in Sinan Erdem Sports Hall.
Losing the first match that was played in Lithuania 89-73 with a 16 points difference, our team won this match with 27 points difference and secured the head to head advantage.
Starting the match with Micic, Beaubois, Simon, Moerman, and Sertaç, Anadolu Efes’s first points were scored by Beaubois and our team was 5-4 ahead in the 2nd minute. Micic and Sertaç scored 5 points each at 4:30 and set the score table to 15-8 and after Moerman’s underneath point our team heads into the television time-out 17-8 ahead. Returning from the time-out Simon and Micic scored and raised the score difference to 10 points at the 7th minute: 22-12. In the remaining duration, Sertaç and Larkin scored and our team finished the first quarter 26-12 ahead. Starting the second quarter with Larkin and Singleton’s three-pointers, our team was 32-12 ahead at the 11th minute. While Larkin continued to score, our team was 36-14 ahead at the 14th minute, then Micic and Singleton contributed to scoring and our team set the score table to 40-18 at the 16th minute. Simon scored a three-pointer, then Micic scored 2 and Sertaç scored 1 point from the free-throw line and our team was leading the score table 46-25 at the 19th minute. With our final fastbreak of the quarter, Larkin scored a three-pointer and set the score of the first half: 49-28.
Starting the second half the rival team set the score table to 49-33 in the first 1:30minutes and so coach Ergin Ataman called a time-out. Returning from the time-out Simon and Moerman duo scored and set the score table to 54-33 at 22:30. Sertaç scored underneath and Larkin scored a three-pointer and our team was 64-40 ahead at the 26th minute. While Micic and Beaubois scored through fastbreaks at 27:30, our team set the score table to 70-43. In the remaining duration, Micic and Beaubois scored three-pointers each and our team finished the third quarter 76-48 ahead. Starting the final quarter with Anderson’s 2 three-pointers, our team was 82-50 ahead at the 32nd minute. After Singleton and Anderson scored 1 point each from the free-throw line our team was 84-55 ahead at 33:30. Simon scored a three-pointer at the 36th minute and set the score table to 87-57, then Singleton scored and our team was 89-62 ahead heading into the last minute of the match. Our team couldn’t score within the final minute and won the match with a score of 89-62.
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| # | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Shane Larkin | 27:36 | 18 | 1 / 1 %100,00 | 4 / 9 %44,44 | 4 / 4 %100,00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 23 |
| 1 | Rodrigue Beaubois | 21:22 | 12 | 3 / 3 %100,00 | 2 / 4 %50,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 | Chris Singleton | 20:54 | 8 | 2 / 3 %66,67 | 1 / 5 %20,00 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Doğuş Balbay | 05:42 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Dzanan Musa | 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 |
| 15 | Sertaç Şanlı | 22:16 | 12 | 4 / 5 %80,00 | 1 / 3 %33,33 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
| 18 | Adrien Moerman | 19:06 | 4 | 2 / 2 %100,00 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 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 |
| 22 | Vasilije Micić | 30:20 | 17 | 3 / 4 %75,00 | 2 / 5 %40,00 | 5 / 5 %100,00 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 25 |
| 23 | James Anderson | 11:03 | 7 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 2 / 3 %66,67 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 42 | Bryant Dunston | 17:44 | 0 | 0 / 3 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 44 | Krunoslav Simon | 23:57 | 11 | 1 / 1 %100,00 | 3 / 4 %75,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 17 |
| TOPLAM | 89 | 16 / 23 %69,57 | 15 / 34 %44,12 | 12 / 15 %80,00 | 6 | 25 | 31 | 23 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 22 | 120 |
62| # | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Walkup, Thomas | 31:56 | 15 | 5 / 7 %71.43 | 1 / 5 %20.00 | 2 / 2 %100.00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 |
| 1 | Blazevic, Marek | 0 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Lekavicius, Lukas | 11:06 | 0 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -4 |
| 10 | Hayes, Nigel | 25:34 | 2 | 1 / 3 %33.33 | 0 / 2 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | Jankunas, Paulius | 20:04 | 3 | 0 / 3 %0.00 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 16 | Lukosiunas, Karolis | 05:21 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 2 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 |
| 23 | Geben, Martinas | 12:25 | 2 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 24 | Rubit, Augustine | 23:49 | 13 | 5 / 11 %45.45 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 3 / 3 %100.00 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 17 |
| 31 | Jokubaitis, Rokas | 25:24 | 7 | 2 / 3 %66.67 | 1 / 3 %33.33 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 32 | Vasturia, Steve | 06:07 | 0 | 0 / 2 %0.00 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -5 |
| 40 | Grigonis, Marius | 28:20 | 14 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 4 / 6 %66.67 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 77 | Lauvergne, Joffrey | 09:54 | 6 | 3 / 5 %60.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| TOPLAM | 62 | 18 / 38 %47.37 | 7 / 22 %31.82 | 5 / 5 %100.00 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 16 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 22 | 15 | 50 |
