Pınar Karşıyaka lost 76-71 to Türk Telekom at home in the ING Basketball Super League. With this result, Kaf-Kaf received their 4th defeat in 13 matches in the league, while Telekom achieved 5 victories.
Pınar Karşıyaka lost 76-71 to Türk Telekom at home in the ING Basketball Super League. In the match, which finished the first half with a margin of 18 points, the green-red team, which reduced the gap to 1 point in the last minutes, could not prevent the defeat. Blackmon, who had a knee injury in Karşıyaka, where Semih Erden and Roll had surgery, could not play. With this result, Kaf-Kaf received their 4th defeat in 13 matches in the league, while Telekom achieved 5 victories.
Taking the lead with Pınar Karşıyaka, who played with a very bad shooting percentage in the first period, returning empty from consecutive attacks, Türk Telekom increased the lead up to 15 points with Harrison and Dawkins’ 3-pointers. With the points of Tyus from the host, 23-11 in the first 10 minutes resulted in the favor of the guest team. Responding to Karşıyaka’s efforts to reduce the gap in the second period with accurate outside shots, Telekom did not let its opponent catch up with it.
MINUTES FROM THE MATCH:
With Dawkins’ last-second basket, the first half ended with a margin of 18 points, with Türk Telekom superiority 44-26. Although Karşıyaka tried to be a partner in the game with M’Baye, Taylor and Can Korkmaz in the third period, Türk Telekom started the fourth period ahead 61-47. Pınar Karşıyaka, who gave her opponent only 2 points for 6 minutes with a good defense in the last period, reduced the gap to 4 points. The score was 66-67 with Taylor’s long-range three pointer with 1 minute 46 seconds left.
After this attack, Clemmons put his team forward by 4 points with a 3-point field goal and did not allow the gap to close. The guest team, who did not make any mistakes in the last moments, won the hall 76-71.
HALL: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
REFEREES: Mehmet Karabilecen (xx), Mehmet Serdar Unal (xx), Burak Yılmaz (xx)
PINAR KARŞIYAKA: Taylor (xxx) 20, Yunus (x), Colson (xx) 8, M’Baye (xxx) 24, Mahir (xx), Tyus (xx) 8, Berkan (xx) 6, Can Korkmaz (x) 3, Burak Can (x) 2
TÜRK TELEKOM: Clemmons (xxx) 12, Johnson (xxx) 13, Harrison (xxx) 9, Samet (xx) 2, Can Uğur (xx) 4, Perez (x) 2, Dawkins (xxx) 17, Erdi (x) 3, Berk (xxx) 8, Dorukhan (xx) 6
1st PERIOD: 11-23
FIRST HALF: 26-44
3rd PERIOD: 47-61
FALLING FOUL 5: Burak Can (39.46) (Pınar Karşıyaka)
