After this result, our team was ahead 1-0 in the series. The second match of the series will be played on Sunday, May 16 in Gaziantep. If our team is victorious in this match, it will advance to the semi-finals.

Starting the match with Doğuş, Larkin, Simon, Moerman, and Dunston, Anadolu Efes’s first points were scored by Dunston through the free-throw line. Our team continued to score with Larkin and Moerman and was trailing 8-9 at the 5th minute. Simon and Micic’s points set the score table to 12-11 at the 6th minute. Dunston’s fancy dunk followed by Micic’s 5 points and our team was 19-13 ahead at the 8th minute. Micic scored a three-pointer and set the score of the first quarter: 22-18. Starting the second quarter with Anderson’s 4 points, our team set the score table to 26-18 at the 11th minute, so the rival team called a time-out. Returning from the time-out Sertaç scored and the point difference went up to 10 points, then Micic scored 5 points at 13:30 and set the score table to 33-20. Anderson’s 2 and Dunston’s 3 points at the 17th minute raised the score difference to 16 points at the 17th minute: 38-22. Micic and Dunston scored and our team head into the changing rooms 45-30 ahead at the end of the first half.

Starting the second half with Micic’s points, our team was 47-30 ahead at the 21st minute. Moerman and Sertaç scored and our team was 55-37 ahead at the 23rd minute. Micic’s basket followed by Moerman and Sertaç’s baskets and our team went up 20 points at the 25th minute: 61-41. Anderson and Moerman’s points at the 27th points set the score table to 65-43, in the remaining 3-minute duration Moerman and Yiğitcan scored from the paint and Sertaç and Larkin scored behind the three-pointer line and our team finished the third quarter with a 25-point difference: 75-53. Starting the final quarter with Yiğitcan’s three-pointer, Anadolu Efes went up 25 points at the 31st minute: 78-53. Dunston’s and Erten’s points at the 33rd minute raised the score difference to 30 points at the 33rd minute:83-53. Erten scored another three-pointer, followed by Yiğitcan’s layup at the 35th minute and our team was 88-57 ahead. Tolga’s three-pointer at the 36th minute set the score table to 91-59. Erten scored underneath and set the score table to 93-59. Erten scored another three-pointer and our team won the match with a score of 96-73.