Returning from Zalgiris Kaunas Away Game with a Victory: 85-71

We were guests of Lithuania's Zalgiris Kaunas in the 30th-week match of Turkish Airlines Euroleague and we won the game 85-71. We finished the first half of the match ahead 41-30 which had been taken place at Zalgirio Arena.

Our team started with Larkin, Micic, Anderson, Moerman, and Dunston starting five, and we took a 7-0 lead in the first two minutes with the points of Anderson, Micic, and Dunston. After Dunston had two more hits from under-the-rim, we were ahead 16-13 in the seventh minute with Micic's five-point contribution. After Larkin and Beaubois supported Moerman's three-pointer with a basket each, we finished the first 10 minutes of the game with a 23-19 lead. We started the second period with two accurate free throws from Micic, leading 25-19 into the 11th minute. After Beaubois' layup, we were leading 32-23 in the 15th minute with Dunston and Pleiss's points in the paint. With the points of Pleiss and Beaubois, the score was 36-27 in the 18th minute. In this section, we increased the lead to double digits with good defensive effort and finished the first half of the game ahead 41-30 after the hits by Micic and Larkin.

 

Starting the second half with Micic's one free throw hit and then Moerman's three-pointer, this time Larkin scored a three-pointer after Anderson's one-hit free throw, and at 22:30 we got the 19 points of lead: 49-30. Our team, which geared up in this section, made the score 56-32 in the 25th minute with a three-point field goal from Micic, after Larkin and Dunston's hits from under the basket. In the second five-minute part of the period, we scored six points with Pleiss and three points with Elijah, leading 65-40 in the last 10 minutes of the game. We started the final period with Elijah's three-pointer and made it 68-40 in the 31st minute. With the hits of Micic and Pleiss, we entered the 33rd minute with our 72-47 lead. We were 80-60 ahead in the 37th minute with Beaubois' eight points in a row. After the field goals from Moerman and Micic in the remaining time, we won the match 85-71.

 

 

 

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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 32:56 10 2 / 4 %50,00 2 / 8 %25,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 2 2 8 1 2 0 1 3 13
1 Rodrigue Beaubois 22:10 15 4 / 4 %100,00 2 / 5 %40,00 1 / 2 %50,00 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 17
2 Chris Singleton 18:41 0 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 1 %0,00 0 / 0 %0,00 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 -3
6 Elijah Bryant 14:32 6 0 / 1 %0,00 2 / 2 %100,00 0 / 0 %0,00 0 4 4 0 0 1 0 2 0 6
11 Erten Gazi 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
18 Adrien Moerman 23:01 8 1 / 2 %50,00 2 / 3 %66,67 0 / 0 %0,00 1 4 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 10
19 Buğrahan Tuncer 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
21 Tibor Pleiss 11:06 12 5 / 7 %71,43 0 / 1 %0,00 2 / 2 %100,00 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 2 12
22 Vasilije Micić 33:03 20 3 / 6 %50,00 3 / 6 %50,00 5 / 6 %83,33 0 1 1 7 0 2 0 1 4 21
23 James Anderson 17:19 3 1 / 2 %50,00 0 / 0 %0,00 1 / 2 %50,00 1 6 7 0 1 0 0 1 1 9
33 Filip Petrušev 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
42 Bryant Dunston 27:12 11 5 / 7 %71,43 0 / 0 %0,00 1 / 1 %100,00 4 2 6 1 3 2 1 3 4 19
  TOPLAM   85 21 / 33 %63,64 11 / 26 %42,31 10 / 13 %76,92 8 20 28 18 8 7 1 14 16 104
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Opponent Team Player Statistics
# Player Min Pts 2P 3P FT OR DR R A St To B F FR EFFP
0 Webster, Tai 13:54 3 0 / 3 %0.00 1 / 2 %50.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 -5
1 Blazevic, Marek 08:10 2 1 / 1 %100.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0
4 Lekavicius, Lukas 24:18 5 1 / 5 %20.00 1 / 2 %50.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 0 0 4 1 2 0 3 1 1
7 Nebo, Josh 24:32 12 6 / 7 %85.71 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 3 5 8 0 0 1 0 0 1 19
10 Miniotas, Regimantas 01:45 0 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -1
13 Jankunas, Paulius 04:14 0 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 3
16 Lukosiunas, Karolis 0 0 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Milaknis, Arturas 26:03 13 2 / 2 %100.00 3 / 6 %50.00 0 / 0 %0.00 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 9
32 Strelnieks, Janis 17:30 2 1 / 2 %50.00 0 / 4 %0.00 0 / 0 %0.00 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 -2
34 Cavanaugh, Tyler 30:52 22 4 / 5 %80.00 3 / 7 %42.86 5 / 8 %62.50 0 7 7 2 0 1 0 3 6 25
55 Giffey, Niels 17:36 6 1 / 1 %100.00 0 / 1 %0.00 4 / 4 %100.00 2 2 4 3 0 0 1 1 3 15
92 Ulanovas, Edgaras 31:06 6 2 / 2 %100.00 0 / 2 %0.00 2 / 2 %100.00 0 4 4 5 2 3 0 1 2 13
  TOPLAM   7118 / 28 %64.29 8 / 24 %33.33 11 / 14 %78.57 6 20 26 17 5 11 1 16 14 77
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