CSKA Moscow – Anadolu Efes 97-99: Overtime triumph for the European champions

Two teams that want to win a championship, two teams that are not in the best form, two opponents who fought tooth and nail in Moscow on Wednesday evening (February 2nd) for the 24th game of the EuroLeague. CSKA and Anadolu Efes also had goal motivation and selfishness, with Daniel Hackett working wonders, but Turkey survived in overtime to take the win 99-97.

At 11-11, Anantolou Efes made a huge effort for the octave (7-3 home and 4-8 a), at 13-9 CSKA (7-4 home and 6-5 a) that wasn’t enough for the patient Dimitris Itoudis on the bench was led by Andreas Pistiolis but found no defence, shot, creation to claim the win.

The race

Shocking was Efes’ start, laying five threes in the seventh minute for +13 (8-21) before CSKA leveled the game to take the lead (28-27) with a Claiborne basket at 13′ and a three. -Pointer of Boloboi in the next phase. That part of the Russians’ 23-6 was impressive, but Larkin was the one to judge the score in the first twenty minutes (41-44) as he reached 19 points (3/4 two points, 4/5 three points, 1/ 1 shot) with his team in 9/17 shots from the periphery against 5/14 of the home team.

And because this was the match of breakouts, CSKA made another one at the beginning of the second part. They ran an incredible 18-0 streak for 59-44, with Hackett in an incredible situation for Anadolu to survive and go ahead with one again with his own epic 5-21 early in the fourth period. From there the match became a rodeo, with Claiborne hitting a big three in 38 minutes to make it 82-81, followed by shots from Mitsic (82-83 at 1:38), misses from Grigonis – Claiborne, his Morman shot for 82-84 at 27″ and Hackett’s giant foursome for 86-84 at 13″. Mitzic responded with an equalizer at 0.8″ and in the time Claiborne stayed, he took a high pass near the basket but found an iron.

In overtime, Larkin scored to make it 91-92, Antonov responded with a three to make it 94-92, Plays equalized to make it 1:21 and Bobua fired a great shot to make it 94-97 on 49″ from Mitsic’s sixth assist. Grigonis pared to 97 -98 with a three before receiving an unsportsmanlike foul from Morman, missing two shots but maintaining possession for Efes at 2.1″. Bobua didn’t miss the line on the first execution, losing the second shot on purpose and giving the Turks the win 97-99.

THE REFEREES: Lotermoser, Rocha, Perez

THE TEN MINUTES: 16-23, 41-44, 64-57, 86-86 (etc.), 97-99

CSKA MOSCOW (Pistiolis): Ludberg 2 (1/5 shots), Boloby 7 (1), Uhoff, Ivlef, Hackett 31 (5/7 two points, 6/10 three points, 3/3 shots), Antonov 3 (1), Fogtman, Claiborne 19 (4/8 two points, 3/11 three points, 2/2 shots, 7 rebounds, 4 assists), Milutinov 4 (7 rebounds), Grigonis 20 (2/4 two points, 4/6 three points ). , 4/4 shots) , Kurbanov 5 (1), Svend 6 (0/7 three points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists)

ΑΝΑΝΤΟΛΟΥ ΕΦΕΣ (Sekizkok): Larkin 26 (4/7 two points, 5/7 three points, 3/3 shots, 5 rebounds, 9 assists), Bobua 22 (0/4 two points, 7/13 three points, 1/2 shots ). , 6 rebounds, 3 assists), Singleton 3, Bryant, Gazi, Morman 7 (2), Plays 9 (1 three points, 12 rebounds), Mitsic 16 (2/7 two points, 3/5 three points, 3/4 Shots, 4 rebounds, 6 assists), Dunston 12 (5/5 two points, 2/2 shots, 3 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals), Simon 4

CSKA Moscow team statistics: 19/39 two points, 16/43 three points, 11/11 shots, 41 rebounds (24 defensive – 17 offensive), 21 assists, 11 steals, 3 blocks, 8 errors

The group statistics of Anantolou Efes: 15/34 two points, 19/34 three points, 12/21 shots, 39 rebounds (27 defensive – 12 offensive), 25 assists, 6 steals, 6 blocks, 14 errors

The next games of the two teams: In the 25th game, CSKA Moscow hosts Alba Berlin (4/2 at 19:00), while Anadolu Efes hosts Villeurbanne (4/2 at 19:30).