Pınar Karşıyaka, who lost 2-1 in the series after beating Spain’s Tenerife team in the third match of the FIBA Champions League Play-In Tour, with an away score of 74-71, said goodbye to Europe early. Karşıyaka closed its European book before it could reach the last 16 rounds of the tournament in which it played the final last season.
Pınar Karşıyaka hosted Lenovo Tenerife of Spain in the third match of the FIBA Champions League Play-In tour. Karşıyaka, who made a bad start to the match, closed the first set behind with a score of 17-11. The green-red team, who could not gain the upper hand in the second set, entered the circuit behind 37-29. Starting the third quarter fast, the Izmir team reduced the gap to 5 and entered the last quarter behind 58-53. Karsiyaka, who also managed to take the lead in the last set, where there was a great struggle, could not defend his opponent in the last 1 minute and fell back and lost the match 74-71. With this result, Karşıyaka lost the Play-In tour series 2-1 and said goodbye to Europe.
Karşıyaka played the final in this tournament last season and finished second in the tournament.
“I think we deserve to win”
Making a statement after the match, Pınar Karşıyaka Head Coach Ufuk Sarıca said, “It was a tough match. We played our matches in a very difficult and tight schedule until now. We were bad in the first half, we made a lot of mistakes, especially in attack. We were better in the second half, we fought together on the field. We showed our character. “We came back with a 15-16 point lead, but it wasn’t enough for us to win. At the end of the match, we could have been the winner and I think we deserved it. But we have to admit that we made wrong choices in the last minutes. I congratulate Tenerife.”
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