A massive step on the play off from Anadolu Efes: 76-68

Hosted by Lithuania’s Zalgiris Kaunas team at the 27th-week match-up of Turkish Airlines Euroleague, Anadolu Efes won 76-68. Anadolu Efes was trailing 41-44 at the halftime of the match, played at Zalgirio Arena.

Starting the match with Doğuş, Granger, Cedi, Brown and Dunston, Anadolu Efes scored the first point with captain Doğuş and Granger’s three-pointers and led the score table 6-2 towards going into the second minute. After Dunston and Cedi’s underneath shots, Granger scored 7 points and by the 7th-minute, the score table was set to 17-13. Remaining 3-minute duration the rival team scored and our team left the first 10 minutes of the game trailing 22-17. Starting the second period with Brown’s mid-range shot, Anadolu Efes brought the score to 21-26 at the 12:30 minutes with Thomas’s score. Perasovic called for a time out when the score table was set to 21-32 at the 13th minute. Returning from the time-out Paul scored 4 points and lowered the score difference to 7 points at the 14th minute: 25-32. Granger and Dunston scored one point each in the painted area, then Paul scored a three-pointer and brought down the score difference to 4 points at the 16th minute, then the hosting team called for a time-out: 32-36. Returning from the time-out Granger brought down the score difference to two points, and then towards the end of the quarter, Dunston and Brown duo balanced the score: 39-39. Remaining duration Cedi scored and Anadolu Efes finished the first half trailing 41-44.

Starting the second period with Brown’s offense, Anadolu Efes brought down the score difference to 2 points, then with Dunston’s fancy dunk, our team led the score table at the 21:30: 45-44. From this moment on the night’s scorer, Granger, took the wheel and scored continuing 6 points and scored his 20th point, also helped our team to lead the score: 51-48. Brown raised the score difference to 5 points at the 26th minute, then with Granger’s points the score was brought to 58-50 at the 27th minute. Anadolu Efes reached to the 60th point with Honeycutt’s 2 points from the free-throw and went into the last 1:40 minutes of the quarter with underneath points and set the score table to 60-59. Starting the final quarter with Paul’s three-pointer, our team led the score at the 31st minute: 63-59. At the 31:30 the hosting team balanced the score, then Brown scored 2 points from the free-throw and brought the score to 65-63 at 32:30. Anadolu Efes was trailing at the 35th minute, then after Dunston’s scores, Honeycutt scored a three-pointer and at the 37th-minute, Anadolu Efes was 2 points ahead: 70-68. Scoring with going to the hoop, captain Doğuş raised the score difference to 4 points, then Honeycutt’s defensive rebound was turned into a point by Brown and Anadolu Efes led the score table in the last 45 seconds of the game: 74-68. Remaining duration Paul scored 2 more points and Anadolu Efes won the game 76-68.  

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