Hosting Aliağa Petkim Spor team in the 26th-week match of ING Basketball Super League, Anadolu Efes won the game 87-80. Anadolu Efes was 45-44 trailing at the half-time of the match that was played in Sinan Erdem Sports Hall.
With this result, we secured the regular season leadership.
Starting the match with Larkin, Simon, Anderson, Singleton, and Pleiss, Anadolu Efes’s first points were scored by Simon and Pleiss and their three-pointers set the score table to 6-2 at the 2nd minute. Anderson’s layup followed by Larkin’s points and our team was 16-7 ahead at the 5th minute. After Pleiss and Larkin’s points, our team was 24-15 ahead at the 7th minute, then Anderson scored underneath and raised the score difference to double digits for the first time: 26-15. In the remaining duration, Singleton and Anderson scored and set the score of the quarter: 32-20. Starting the second quarter our team failed to score for the first 3-minute duration, the rival team set the score table to 32-29 at the 13th minute. After Tolga’s basket, Simon scored 2 points from the free-throw line and our team was 36-33 ahead at the 15th minute. Buğrahan scored 5 and Pleiss scored 3 more points and our team was trailing 45-44 at the end of the second quarter.
Starting the second half with Simon’s three-pointer, our team was 47-45 ahead at the 21st minute. Pleiss scored 6 and Singleton scored 3 points at the 25th minute and set the score table to 56-54. Pleiss continued to score, then Simon and Larkin’s baskets tied the score to 65-65 at the end of the third quarter. Starting the final quarter with Dunston’s underneath points, the score was a tie at 32nd minute again: 67-67. Buğrahan scored 1 point from the free-throw line and the score table was set to 68-73 after the rival team’s points, so coach Ergin Ataman called a time-out. Returning from the time-out Simon and Dunston scored a series of 7-0 and set the score table to 75-73 at the 35th minute, so the rival team called a time-out. Returning from the time-out Simon scored 7 points and Anadolu Efes was 82-76 ahead at the last 3 minutes of the match. Singleton and Anderson score to set the score table to 87-78 at the last 1:30 minutes. In the remaining duration, our team continue leading the score table and won the match with a score of 87-80.
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| # | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Shane Larkin | 32:48 | 18 | 2 / 4 %50,00 | 3 / 7 %42,86 | 5 / 5 %100,00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19 |
| 2 | Chris Singleton | 29:20 | 9 | 0 / 2 %0,00 | 3 / 4 %75,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| 3 | Yiğitcan Saybir | 00:40 | 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 | 04:07 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Tolga Geçim | 01:54 | 2 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Erten Gazi | 06:00 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 / 1 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -1 |
| 15 | Sertaç Şanlı | 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 | 17:32 | 6 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 1 / 3 %33,33 | 1 / 2 %50,00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 21 | Tibor Pleiss | 22:20 | 18 | 5 / 5 %100,00 | 2 / 3 %66,67 | 2 / 2 %100,00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25 |
| 23 | James Anderson | 27:38 | 8 | 4 / 5 %80,00 | 0 / 3 %0,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 42 | Bryant Dunston | 22:51 | 5 | 2 / 4 %50,00 | 0 / 0 %0,00 | 1 / 1 %100,00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 44 | Krunoslav Simon | 34:50 | 21 | 3 / 5 %60,00 | 3 / 9 %33,33 | 6 / 6 %100,00 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 26 |
| TOPLAM | 87 | 18 / 29 %62,07 | 12 / 30 %40,00 | 15 / 16 %93,75 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 23 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 106 |
80| # | Player | Min | Pts | 2P | 3P | FT | OR | DR | R | A | St | To | B | F | FR | EFFP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Boran Güler | 4:30 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Deniz Çelen | 0:00 | 0 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Yiğitcan Turna | 10:39 | 6 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 2 / 2 %100.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 11 | Ege Arar | 20:57 | 12 | 6 / 11 %54.55 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 12 | Sarunas Vasiliauskas | 29:21 | 14 | 2 / 3 %66.67 | 3 / 5 %60.00 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| 13 | Okben Ulubay | 24:38 | 4 | 2 / 5 %40.00 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 20 | Thomas E Sean Shavez Wimbush | 20:05 | 2 | 1 / 2 %50.00 | 0 / 3 %0.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | Stephen George Zack | 19:03 | 14 | 7 / 10 %70.00 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 18 |
| 23 | Canberk Kus | 18:40 | 10 | 4 / 5 %80.00 | 0 / 2 %0.00 | 2 / 3 %66.67 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 30 | Dorukhan Engindeniz | 24:00 | 3 | 0 / 1 %0.00 | 1 / 6 %16.67 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | -1 |
| 34 | Ian Hummer | 28:07 | 15 | 6 / 11 %54.55 | 1 / 1 %100.00 | 0 / 0 %0.00 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 |
| TOPLAM | 80 | 28 / 48 %58.33 | 7 / 21 %33.33 | 3 / 5 %60.00 | 7 | 23 | 30 | 22 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 95 |
