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Turk Telekom stops Aris, 87-77

Turk Telekom stops Aris, 87-77

Game Report

11 December 20243 Mins read

Ismet Akpinar and Anthony Brown led Turk Telekom to its sixth victory.

Regular Season

Round 11 of 18

game Aris Midea Thessaloniki vs Turk Telekom Ankara

Group B

11 December 2024, 16:30

Regular Season

11 December 2024, 16:30

Regular Season

Turk Telekom Ankara

TTA

Aris Midea Thessaloniki

ARI

Final Score

Turk Telekom Ankara took an important step towards qualifying for the eighthfinals by topping Aris Midea Thessaloniki 87-77 in the Turkish capital on Wednesday. Turk Telekom improved to 6-5 in Group B and now has a 2-0 record against Aris, which dropped to 2-9.

Ismet Akpinar led the winners with 19 points. Anthony Brown added 18 and Olivier Hanlan scored 16 for Turk Telekom. Sharife Cooper paced Aris with 20 points, Darral Willis netted 15, D'Moi Hodge 11 and Landers Nolley 10.

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Emmanouil Chatzidakis got Aris going with a layup and Cooper added a three-pointer for a 0-5 lead. Speedy Smith and Hanlan stepped up for Turk Telekom before Nolley and Willis boosted the visitors' lead to 4-10. Berkan Durmaz scored in penetration and erased Hodge's triple with a shot from downtown. Hodge kept pacing Aris with a layup off a steal and found Joshua Roberts for a basket that made it a double-digit game, 9-20. Brown found his first points and then Yoan Makoundou bettered Willis's jump hook with a corner triple that made it 14-22 after 10 minutes.

Brown struck from beyond the arc early in the second quarter. Willis made a jumper that Makoundou matched with a put-back slam. Akpinar buried a corner triple in transition that led to an Aris timeout at 22-24. Cooper stepped up with a baseline jumper and a three-pointer in a 0-7 run that restored a 22-31 Aris lead. Brown and Makoundou each had 5 points in a 12-0 run that gave Turk Telekom its first lead, 34-31. Tilemachos Vissariou, Akpinar and Nate Laszewski each made a triple to even the score at 37-37. Roberts dunked and Willis gave Aris fresh air at 37-41. After Hanlan struck twice from beyond the arc, Nolley answered with a fallaway jumper. Brown gave Turk Telekom a 45-43 lead at halftime.

Cooper scored in penetration soon after the break. Mahir Agva rescued Turk Telekom. Then Cooper and James Banks helped Aris regain the lead, 48-49. Kyle Alexander scored down low and Hanlan added a driving layup but Cooper hit a triple off the dribble to tie it at 52-52. Brown scored again and Alexander dunked to put the hosts back ahead. Willis kept pacing Aris and Nolley banked in a close shot to bring the visitors within 59-58. Akpinar struck from downtown and got help from downtown to boost Turk Telekom's lead to 63-60 through three quarters.

Willis took over with a wild three-point play early in the fourth quarter and Cooper added a reverse layup for a 63-66 Aris lead with over 7 minutes left. Cooper capped a 0-10 run with free throws, as Hanlan answered with a driving layup and Brown hit a triple that tied it at 68-68. Laszewski bettered Agva's layup with a triple. Akpinar answered from beyond the arc and added free throws for a 75-72 Turk Telekom edge. Hanlan beat the shot clock with a turnaround jumper and matched Nolley's floater from the foul line. Akpinar made it 83-74 with 46.3 seconds left, which was more than enough to seal the outcome.