Galatasaray Nef: 86 - Anadolu Efes: 81

We were the guests of Galatasaray Nef in the fourth match of the ING Basketball Super League play-off semi-finals and we were defeated 81-86. We were 43-42 ahead in the first half of the match played at Sinan Erdem Dome.

After this result, the series tied at 2-2. The fifth and last game of the series will be played on Saturday, June 4 at Sinan Erdem Dome.

While our team went into the game with Larkin, Micic, Elijah, Singleton, and Pleiss, starting five our first points came from Elijah and we were ahead 4-3 in the first two minutes of the game. We scored back-to-back points with Singleton after Larkin's three-pointer, leading 14-10 into the fifth-minute television break. After the timeout, Larkin and Micic scored five points and made it 19-10 in the sixth minute. We scored four more points with Micic and Larkin in the remaining part and we were ahead 23-16 in the first 10 minutes of the game. Our first hit in the second half came from Larkin, and we were ahead 25-18 in the 11th minute. When the score was 25-26 in the 12th minute, coach Ergin Ataman took a time-out. After the timeout, Dunston and Micic's points made the score 30-33 in the 14th minute. After Elijah's layup, Micic's mid-range hit narrowed the lead to one point in the 17th minute: 34-35. With the points from Buğrahan and Dunston, we entered the last minute of the half with a 38-37 lead. In the remaining time, we scored five more points with Micic and finished the first half of the game ahead 43-42.

We started the second half with four points from Elijah, leading 47-45 into the 22nd minute. With the three-pointers from Micic and Buğrahan, we brought the score to 53-51 in the 25th minute. Micic had another three-pointer as the score was 56-56 in the 27th minute. With Pleiss' stylish dunk, we entered the last 2:30 minutes of the third quarter behind 58-59. The score was tied again in the 28th minute with Singleton's three-pointer: 61-61. In the last section, a three-pointer came from Elijah and we were behind 64-66 in the last 10 minutes of the match. We tied Dunston on our first offense in the final period: 66-66. After Micic's layup, Dunston also scored on the foul line, and the 32nd minute was tied 69-69. With Larkin's three-pointer, the score was 72-74 in the 34th minute, and the score came to 74-79 at 35:30 with Singleton's under-basket. After Micic and Dunston's points, Larkin's hit a three-pointer, trailing 81-86. We could not find a score in the remaining part and we lost the match 81-86.

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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 27:03 17 1 / 4 %25,00 5 / 9 %55,56 0 / 0 %0,00 0 3 3 5 0 2 0 1 0 16
2 Chris Singleton 32:27 12 3 / 5 %60,00 2 / 4 %50,00 0 / 2 %0,00 2 1 3 1 1 1 0 3 0 10
3 Yiğitcan Saybir 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
4 Doğuş Balbay 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
6 Elijah Bryant 34:31 13 5 / 7 %71,43 1 / 5 %20,00 0 / 0 %0,00 4 4 8 4 1 1 0 2 0 19
10 Ömercan İlyasoğlu 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
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
15 Egemen Güven 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 19:23 5 1 / 3 %33,33 1 / 2 %50,00 0 / 0 %0,00 2 1 3 2 0 1 0 3 0 6
21 Tibor Pleiss 19:21 2 1 / 3 %33,33 0 / 0 %0,00 0 / 2 %0,00 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 -1
22 Vasilije Micić 39:03 23 5 / 6 %83,33 3 / 7 %42,86 4 / 5 %80,00 0 6 6 3 1 3 0 2 0 24
42 Bryant Dunston 28:12 9 4 / 4 %100,00 0 / 1 %0,00 1 / 2 %50,00 2 6 8 1 0 1 1 3 0 16
  TOPLAM   81 20 / 32 %62,50 12 / 28 %42,86 5 / 11 %45,45 10 21 31 17 3 10 2 16 0 90