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Game Notes, Championship game, Madrid vs. Efes

Game Notes, Championship game, Madrid vs. Efes

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20 May 20224 Mins read

Game Notes, Championship game, Madrid vs. Efes

Here are some interesting notes about the Final Four championship game between Real Madrid and Anadolu Efes Istanbul.

Final Four

Final

game Anadolu Efes Istanbul vs Real Madrid

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

21 May 2022, 17:00

Final Four

21 May 2022, 17:00

Final Four

Real Madrid

RMB

Anadolu Efes Istanbul

EFS

Final Score

· Real has a 26-13 lead in EuroLeague games against Efes and the teams split home wins this season.

· Earlier this season, Real beat Efes 82-69 in Madrid in the season opener. In Round 31, Efes rallied to pull out a 93-90 win over Real in Round 31 behind 29 points and 6 assists from Vasilije Micic. He earned co-MVP of the Round honor with PIR 29.

· The 2022 championship game is a rematch of last season's best-of-five EuroLeague Playoffs which Efes won in five games. Efes dominated the first two games of the series in Istanbul, winning 90-63 and 91-68 before Real used big fourth-quarter rallies in Games 3 and 4 to send the series into a deciding game. In Game 5, Efes held on to win 88-83 and proceeded to capture the EuroLeague crown.

· In Game 5 of the playoffs, Chris Singleton posted a career-high in index rating with 38, scoring a career-best 26 points and pulling down 8 rebounds for Efes.

· Last season in their regular-season clash in Madrid in Round 32, Efes raced to an 83-108 victory. In that game, Efes scored 67 second-half points, which is the most points Real has allowed in a single half of a EuroLeague game this century.

· Shane Larkin made history in the 2019-20 season against Real in Madrid by becoming the first player with a streak of four straight MVP of the Round honors. Larkin powered Efes to a 75-80 road win, piling up 32 points along with 4 assists, 3 rebounds and 2 steals for a performance index rating of 36.

· With that win in January 2020, Efes snapped a streak of 12 consecutive defeats in the Spanish capital, a run that dated back to January 2005.

· Real Madrid ousted Efes with a 3-1 series win in the 2015 EuroLeague Playoffs. Rudy Fernandez averaged 13.5 points, 4.0 assists and 3.3 rebounds in the series.

· Real's single-game record for three-pointers made is 7, which has been done twice against Efes. Alberto Herreros made 7 triples against Efes in April 2002 in Madrid, though Efes won that game 92-109. Real sharpshooter Jaycee Carroll tied the mark by making 7 triples on 8 attempts in a 97-80 victory over Efes in April 2017.

· The Efes single-game record for assists is 15, which Thomas Heurtel set in a game against Los Blancos in April 2015.

· Heurtel played for Efes from 2015 to 2017; he was a teammate of Dogus Balbay and Bryant Dunston during his time there.

· Heurtel was a teammate of Efes forward Adrien Moerman at Barcelona during the 2017-18 season.

· Efes big man Chris Singleton was a teammate of Heurtel’s at FC Barcelona during the 2018-19 season.

· Efes center Tibor Pleiss was a teammate of Heurtel for two seasons at Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, from 2012 to 2014.

· Pleiss was a teammate of Real forward Adam Hanga at Baskonia during the 2013-14 season.

· Hanga was a teammate of Efes guards Larkin and Rodrigue Beaubois at Baskonia during the 2016-17 season.

· Real center Vincent Poirier and Efes guard Beaubois were teammates at Baskonia during the 2017-18 season.

· Real Madrid forward Anthony Randolph was a teammate of Singleton at Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar during the 2015-16 season. They reached the EuroLeague Final Four together.

· Randolph and Efes guard Krunoslav Simon were teammates at Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar during the 2014-15 season.

· Real guard Fabien Causeur and Efes center Pleiss were teammates at Baskonia for two seasons, from 2012 to 2014.

· Causeur had a career-best performance playing for Brose Bamberg against Efes in December 2016. He scored a career-high 28 points and earned the MVP of the Round award with a personal-best performance index rating of 35.

· Real guard Sergio Llull dished a career-high 12 assists against Efes in April 2015. He also had a career-best 3 steals against Efes in December 2011, and career-high 8 rebounds in January 2019.

· Real big man Vincent Poirier had 16 points, 12 rebounds and career-bests of 5 blocks and a PIR 35 playing for Baskonia in an 81-82 road win at Efes in December 2017. He won his first MVP of the Round honor for his performance.

· Efes forward Moerman posted his career-high PIR of 33 against Real Madrid in December 2018.

· Efes big man Bryant Dunston posted his career-high in points with 21 playing for Olympiacos Piraeus against Real in April 2014. Dunston set a career-high with 4 steals in Game 4 of last season's playoff series against Real.

· Real forward Gabriel Deck scored a career-best 23 points in Round 31 loss against Efes.

· Real guard Alberto Abalde dished a career-high 8 assists playing for Valencia Basket against Efes in February 2018. He set a career-high with 3 steals for Valencia against Efes in October 2019.

· Real Madrid big man Trey Thompkins set a career-high with 3 blocks playing for Nizhny Novgorod against Efes in November 2014.

· Real guard Carlos Alocen posted his career-high in assists with 6 in Game 4 of the playoffs last season.

· Hanga had a career-best 11 rebounds, including a career-high 10 defensive rebounds, playing for FC Barcelona against Efes in April 2019.

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