Galatasaray Men’s Basketball Team, Champions League last 16 rounds J group Fourth week match Spanish representative Unicaja’ya 97-91 defeated. The competition was played at Jose Maria Maria Martin Carpena Sports Hall in Malaga, Spain.
Yellow-Kırmızılılar started the match well, the 12-point difference in 6 minutes (7-19) capture the superiority. Despite his opponent’s efforts to recover, Galatasaray finished the first quarter ahead 27-20. In the second quarter, the host team’s effective game was equalized at 30-30 in the 13th minute. However, Galatasaray, the opponent to prevent the lead in the circuit by preventing the score of the superior entered.
In the third quarter, a contentious game was exhibited. Unicaja’s return efforts remained fruitless, Galatasaray entered the last quarter with a superiority of 72-66. However, the last period was the scene of great excitement. The host team, capturing the draw several times 38 minutes 90-89 ahead. Galatasaray could not seize the superiority in the remaining time, the match lost 97-91.
Galatasaray 22 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists playing Will Cummings’ struggle, was not enough to prevent defeat. James Palmer 16, Buğrahan Tuncer and Michael Young reached double digits with a 12 -point number.
With this result, Galatasaray received the second defeat in the last 16 rounds of the Champions League, Unicaja won the third win in the group.