Under the management of Head Coach Ergin Ataman, our National Men’s Basketball Team played its second friendly match against Slovenia today as part of the 2023 World Cup Qualification and 2022 European Championship preparations. The regular time of the match, which was played at Sinan Erdem Sports Hall and witnessed a fierce struggle, was completed with 90-90 equality, while Crescent-Yıldızlılar was defeated 104-103. Furkan Korkmaz was the top scorer of the match with 33 points in the national team; Goran Dragic had 28 points and Luka Doncic had 23 points for Slovenia.
Under the management of Head Coach Ergin Ataman, our National Men’s Basketball Team played its second friendly match against Slovenia as part of the 2023 World Cup Qualification and 2022 European Championship preparations. The regular time of the match, which was played at Sinan Erdem Sports Hall and witnessed a fierce struggle, was completed with 90-90 equality, while Crescent-Yıldızlılar was defeated 104-103.
Furkan Korkmaz was the top scorer of the match with 33 points in the national team; Goran Dragic had 28 points and Luka Doncic had 23 points for Slovenia.
Turkey in the match played at Sinan Erdem Sports Hall; Buğrahan Tuncer, Furkan Korkmaz, Cedi Osman, Sadık Kabaca, Sertaç Şanlı started with the top five. Slovenia’s top 5 consisted of Goran Dragic, Doncic, Zoran Dragic, Cancar and Tobey. Starting the match well, the national team was ahead 12-9 in the first 4 minutes with the effective play of Furkan Korkmaz. Effective in the attack with Alperen and Onuralp coming from the side in the remaining part of the period, Turkey could not prevent Slovenia’s points from the foul line as the foul right expired early. The national team closed the first period ahead 26-21.
Starting the second quarter with Prepelic’s scoring game, Slovenia brought the score to 29-29 with 7:34 remaining in the period. Taking the lead in the game later in the period, Slovenia increased the lead to 6 with Cancar’s three-pointer with 2:49 left in the first half: 36-42. Slovenia, who managed to maintain the difference in the last part of the period, entered the locker room 46-40 ahead.
Both teams started the third period effectively on offense. While the national team scored with Cedi and Furkan; Slovenia was effective in offense with Doncic and Goran Dragic, and the national team was behind 55-58 in the television break with 4:48 left of the period. Slovenia, which dominated the game in the rest of the period, started to open the gap with Doncic and Goran Dragic and entered the decision period 73-62 ahead.
Both teams started the decision period sluggish. Allowing its opponent to score only 2 points in the first 4 minutes of the period, the national team narrowed the lead to 6 with 5:40 remaining with Sertaç Şanlı’s free throws: 69-75. The national team reduced the lead to 3 with Alperen Şengün’s basket foul with 25 seconds left in the game. After Slovenia’s offensive turnover, Furkan Korkmaz’s free throws narrowed the lead to 1 with 10 seconds left: 88-89. After Dragic hit one of the 2 free throws, the national team hit the ball with Furkan Korkmaz in the last attack and the match went to overtime with 90-90.
While the national team was effective with Furkan Korkmaz in the overtime section; Slovenia scored points with Goran Dragic. With 18 seconds left in the game, Goran Dragic took his team 104-103 ahead with a three-pointer. The national team, who could not find the number in the last position, lost the match 104-103.
Great attention to Luka Doncic
Fans who came to watch the match showed great interest to Luka Doncic, star basketball player of Dallas Mavericks, one of the NBA teams. Doncic, who took pictures with the fans, struggled with 23 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists in the match.
3 matches in Istanbul
During the period of 2nd coach Ergin Ataman in the national team, our 12 Giant Men gave their first two exams against Ukraine and Slovenia. In the Istanbul leg, our Nationals will play 3 matches, and after Slovenia, they will face Poland on Sunday. Then, our 12 Giant Men will go to Athens, and they will finish their friendlies with Greece on 17 August, Poland on 18 August and again with the host on 19 August.
On August 25, our opponent Latvia
Crescent-Stars will face Latvia away on 25 August and Serbia on 28 August in the second round of 2023 World Cup Qualification. Our 12 Giant Men will then compete in the 2022 European Championship, which will start on 1 September. In Group A, Montenegro will face Bulgaria, hosts Georgia, Belgium and Spain.
LIVING ROOM: Sinan Erdem
REFEREES: Yener Yilmaz, Kaan Buyukcil, Caglar Ozkan
TURKEY: Buğrahan Tuncer, Furkan Korkmaz 33, Cedi Osman 24, Sadık Kabaca 2, Sertaç Şanlı 8, Alperen Şengün 19, Şehmus Hazer 4, Onuralp Bitim 8, Yiğitcan Saybir 5, Melih Mahmutoğlu, Doğuş Özdemiroğlu, Furkan Haltalı, Metecan Birsen
SLOVENIA: Goran Dragic 28, Doncic 23, Zoran Dragic 7, Cancar 12, Tobey, Nikolic 2, Dimec 4, Muric 10, Blazic, Prepelic 14, Samar 4, Hrovat
1st PERIOD: 26-21
FIRST HALF: 40-46
3rd PERIOD: 62-73
NORMAL TIME: 90-90
5 FOULS: 43.50 Alperen Şengün (Turkey), 34.12 Dimec (Slovenia)
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