There was a moment of silence before the match for our old captain Taner Korucu who lost their lives yesterday.

Starting the match with Heurtel, Cedi, Paul, Brown and Dunston, Anadolu Efes’s first point was scored by Cedi. After Heurtel’s layup Dunston scored continues 4 points and Anadolu Efes finished the first 3 minutes 9-2 ahead. While finding easy points, our team brought the score to 24-13 at the 7th minute with Cedi and Brown’s points. Remainig duration Cedi scored 4 more points and Anadolu Efes finished the first 10 minutes 28-22 ahead. Starting the second quarter with Brown’s point, at 12:30 minutes the hosting team brought the score to 30-30, thus Perasovic called for a time-out. Returning from the time-out Thomas scored one point from the free-throw line then Dunston scored 4 points and Can Maxim scored a three-pointer and brought the score to 38-32 at the 15th minute. Remaining 5 minutes of the quarter Thomas, Paul and Cedi scored and Anadolu Efes finished 45-41 ahead.

Starting the second period with Dunston’s point, Brown and Paul duo scored 12 points and at the 26th minute the score was brought to 61-55. Our 63th point was scored by Dunston, then Efes was trailing at the 29th minute with the score of 63-64. Within the last minute of the quarter Dunston scored three points and went into the last quarter 66-64 ahead. Starting the final quarter with Thomas’s three-pointer from our first offense and brought the score to 69-66. After Cedi’s point Thomas also scored and after Can Maxim’s five points the score table was set to 78-77 at the 33rd minute. After Dunston’s point and one more point from the free-throw line Efes was trailing 82-81 at the 35th minute, then with the hosting team’s points Efes went into the last three points of the game trailing 86-81. Paul and Dunston’s scores brought down the score difference to 1 point at the remaining 1:45 minutes of the game with the score 85-86. Then Anadolu Efes led the score table again with Can Maxim’s three-pointer at the last 24 seconds of the game with the score of 88-86 and in the remaining duration Heurtel scored one point from the free-throw line and the rival team scored a three-pointer at the last second and this balanced the score and the overtime had to be played.

Starting the overtime with Brown’s point, the 42nd minute was finished with a balanced score of 91-91. The rival team’s points were responded with Dunston’s points and so the balance was not broken at the 43:30 either: 93-93. Anadolu Efes trailing after the rival team’s points, then even though Can Maxim scored three-pointer our team lost the game with the score of 100-96.