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This is the sixth consecutive victory for the Euroleague leader of the season “Anadolu Efes”. Erginas Ataman’s troops wrote the biggest failure of CSKA Moscow in modern Euroleague history: 100: 70.
The landslide victory in Istanbul is the fourth in a row for the Turkish team, which beat Piraeus Olympiakos by 23 points, Istanbul Fenerbahche by 32 points and Valencia by 16 points.
“Everyone asks me if we passed the level of last year. No, we are better than last year, “said Ergin Ataman after the victory over CSKA, using the word” excellent “to describe various aspects of the game during a press conference.
He has a reason for that: the last six victories were achieved with an average advantage of 19.5 points.
Anadolu Efes, who has moved up to fourth place, is now two wins behind Euroleague leader Šarūnas Jasikevičius “Barcelona”.
It was after the victory against the Catalan club that E. Ataman said he wanted to correct the work started last year.
Before the coronavirus brought the Euroleague season to a halt, Anadolu Efes had 24 wins in 28 games on his account, and record-breaking Shane Larkin was hunting for MVP trophies.
At the start of this season, the Istanbul club was somewhat hampered by injuries and a coronavirus that broke out in the team. There were a series of defeats, the biggest of which was the 35-point difference against CSKA itself.
A few months later, Anadolu Efes took revenge on his rivals. This is CSKA’s biggest defeat in modern Euroleague history.
“It just came to our knowledge then. We played very badly in Moscow three months ago and lost. After the game we had a 2-3 hour meeting and today I saw the character of the basketball players. This is important for the future and our goal in the Euroleague ”, said A. Atamanas.
The match between Anadolu Efes and Kaunas Žalgiris will take place on Friday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. Lithuanian time.
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