While the host Anadolu Efes started the match with Shane Larkin, Nick Weiler-Babb, Brice Dessert, Dozier and Ercan Osmani, Fenerbahçe Beko played with Nicolo Melli, Talen Horton-Tucker, Tarık Biberovic, Devon Hall and Khem Birch.
Fenerbahçe Beko, who started the match with a 9-0 series that started the match with Tarık Biberovic’s 3 consecutive shots from behind the three-point line, forced his opponent to take an early timeout, could not maintain this superiority in the following minutes. The home team took the lead: 13-12 with a 3-pointer made by Shane Larkin with 05.21 left in the first period. Anadolu Efes was ahead 29-26 in the first period, where the scoring advantage constantly changed hands with mutual points.
Starting the 2nd quarter with Tarık Biberovic’s 3-point field goal, the yellow-dark blue team leveled the score: 29-29. After this minute, the last 2 minutes of the 2nd period witnessed a great competition with mutual points, and the score was tied at 43-43. Fenerbahçe Beko went to the locker room with a 1-point lead, 50-49.
The conflict continued in the second half, which started with Tarık Biberovic’s 3-point field goal. PJ Dozier put Anadolu Efes ahead: 59-58, with 05.26 left in the period in which Fenerbahçe Beko had the leading score for a long time. The dark blue-whites, who managed to dominate their opponent in this quarter, especially with the effective play of Shane Larkin, increased the difference to double digits with PJ Dozier’s 3-point field goal at 02.08 before the end of the quarter: 71-60. The home team entered the last quarter with a 9-point advantage: 76-67.
The conflict in the last period, which started with Larkin and Baldwin’s mutual 3-point shots, continued until the last moments. Anadolu Efes won the last period 102-93 and took the series to the 4th game.
The top scorer of the match was Shane Larkin from Anadolu Efes with 31 points, while Tarık Biberovic played with 29 points from Fenerbahçe Beko.
LOUNGE: Basketball Development Center
REFEREES: Yener Yılmaz, Ahmet Tatlıcı, Tolga Edis
ANADOLU EFES: Larkin 31, Weiler-Babb 2, Dessert 1, Dozier 15, Ercan Osmani 8, Beaubois 4, Şehmus Hazer 8, Loyd 23, Smits 1, David Mutaf 2, Erkan Yılmaz 7, Jones
FENERBAHÇE BEKO: Melli 2, Tarık Biberovic 29, Hall 7, Birch 1, Metecan Birsen, Baldwin 24, Horton-Tucker 14, Melih Mahmutoğlu 4, Boston Jr. , Onuralp Bitim, Jantunen 10, Zagars 2
1ST PERIOD: 29-26
CIRCUIT: 49-50
3RD PERIOD: 76-67 The match at the Basketball Development Center was refereed by the referee trio Yener Yılmaz, Ahmet Tatlıcı and Tolga Edis.