Hosted by the Fenerbahçe Beko team in the 4th-week match of the ING Basketball Super League, Anadolu Efes lost the game 68-90. Anadolu Efes was trailing 31-47 at the half-time of the match that was played in the Ülker Sports Arena.
Starting the match with Larkin, Beaubois, Moerman, Singleton, and Dunston, Anadolu Efes’s first points were scored by Moerman and Larkin duo’s three-pointers and our team was 6-4 ahead at the 3rd minute. Larkin’s basket was followed by Dunston and Beaubois’s points and the score was a tie at the 7th minute: 12-12. In the remaining 3-minute duration Pleiss scored 4 points and our team was trailing 16-24 at the end of the first quarter. Starting the second quarter with Pleiss’s dunk, our team was trailing 18-29 at the 12th minute. After the rival team set the score table to 18-33 at 13:30 coach Ergin Ataman called a time-out. Returning from the time-out Beaubois scored 2 three-pointers at the 15th minute and set the score table to 24-37. Dunston and Yiğitcan’s points at the 18th minute set the score table to 29-43, then in the remaining 2-minute duration Beaubois scored 2 more points and our team was trailing 31-47 at the end of the first half.
Starting the second half with Moerman’s basket, our team was trailing 33-47 at the 21st minute. Larkin and Beaubois scored at the 23rd minute and set the score table to 37-52. Pleiss’s 5 and Erten’s 3 points set the score of the third quarter: 45-68. Starting the final quarter with Erten’s basket and our team was trailing 47-72 at the 32nd minute. Larkin and Beaubois scored at the 35th minute and set the score table to 55-74. Erten, Tolga, and Dunston’s baskets set the score table to 68-84 in the last minute of the match. Our team failed to score in the last minute and lost the match with a score of 68-90.
