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In the season opener in TU Euroleague, our representative Anadolu Efes lost to Zenit with a score of 73-69. Zenit, who started the game effectively, was effective with Micic and Dunston and scored Anadolu Efes against Rivers and Gudaitis and finished the first quarter with a 15-10 lead.
Anadolu Efes, who did not allow his opponent easy points with his effective defense at the beginning of the second half, tied the score in the 15th minute with Beaubois’s points behind the 3-point line and under the pot: 17-17. The teams could not dominate each other in the remaining section. Anadolu Efes responded to Zenit’s baskets with Pangos and Fridzon with points won by Moerman and the teams went to the dressing room with 26-26 equal.
In the first part of the third quarter, Anadolu Efes scored 3 points with Simon and a hit with Beaubois in the first part of the third quarter, and was 9 points in the 24th minute: 40-31. The visiting team prevented the gap from widening with Pangos, with triple baskets that they found in the last seconds of attack time. Anadolu Efes scored from the painted area with Micic in the last section against the points that Zenit scored with Gudaitis, 54-49 in the last half.
In the fourth quarter, Anadolu Efes struggled to stop the Canadian Zenit Pangos player. Adding points with the attacks led by this player, the visiting team took the lead in the 38th minute with Poythress’s basket under the boat: 65-67. Anadolu Efes couldn’t find a hit with Singleton and Simon on the 3s from the last episode. Zenit won the match 73-69 with the points that Pangos scored on free throws in the final seconds.
Canadian Zenit player Kevin Pangos played an important role in the victory with 23 points.
Symbolic jump with “Pink Ball”
This year, a first was achieved at Project Pink Ball in the Field, held for the seventh time.
The jump shot within the scope of the project, which takes place at the first European match organized by Anadolu Efes each year as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, was not performed during the match due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. (Kovid-19).
This year, volunteer project supporter Neslihan Atagül Doğulu, national player Cedi Osman who played on the Cleveland Cavaliers team of the American Basketball League (NBA) and Anadolu Efes captain Doğuş Balbay gathered for the jump this year.
Neslihan Atagül Doğulu took his place between Cedi Osman and Doğuş Balbay at the Anadolu Efes sports club, and performed the symbolic aerial shot with a pink ball. On the other hand, Shane Larkin, a US-born Turkish player from Anadolu Efes, whose treatment process continues, did not play in the match.
Living room: Sinan Erdem
Anatolia Ephesus: Vasilije Micic xx 34, Krunoslav Simon xx 14, Chris Singleton x 4, Bryant Dunston xx 4, James Anderson x 2, Rodrigue Beaubois xx 12, Adrien Moerman xx 8, Tibor Pleiss x 3, Tolga Livelihood x, Sertaç Şanlı x 4, Dogus Balbay x 1, Buğrahan Tuner
Coach: Ergin ataman
Zenith: KC Rivers xx 14, Kevin Pangos x 23, Will Thomas x, Alex Poythress xx 7, Austin Hollins x 5, Arturas Gudaitis xx 7, Andrey Zubkov x 4, Mateusz Ponitka xx 4, Vitaliy Fridzon xx 7, Billy Baron x
Coach: Xavi Pascual
Period 1: 10-15 (in favor of Zenit)
Circuit: 26-16 (in favor of Anadolu Efes)
Period 3: 54-49 (in favor of Anadolu Efes)
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