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Efes blows past ALBA, 98-73

Efes blows past ALBA, 98-73

Game Report

28 February 20253 Mins read

Igor Petrinovic

Euroleague.net

Jordan Nwora, Rolands Smits and Vincent Poirier combined for 49 points

Regular Season

Round 27 of 34

game ALBA Berlin vs Anadolu Efes Istanbul

Group Regular Season

28 February 2025, 17:30

Regular Season

28 February 2025, 17:30

Regular Season

Anadolu Efes Istanbul

EFS

ALBA Berlin

BER

Final Score

Anadolu Efes Istanbul got back on the winning track by downing the visiting ALBA Berlin 98-73 on Friday night. This win improved Efes to a 13-14 record, just one win behind 10th-placed Real Madrid, while already eliminated ALBA remained in last place, dropping to 4-23.

Efes took control of the game with a 13-0 second-quarter run, after which ALBA never got closer than 8 points the rest of the way. Jordan Nwora led Efes with 18 points and 7 rebounds. Rolands Smits finished with 17 points, Vincent Poirier scored 14, while Elijah Bryant and Derek Willis each scored 12. Shane Larkin had 8 points and dished 8 assists. Meanwhile, Yanni Wetzell scored 20 for ALBA, David McCormack had 13 points and Matt Thomas netted 10 in defeat.

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Rodrigue Beaubois hit a jumper and Bryant scored 5 points, including a three-point play, but Matt Thomas nailed a triple before Wetzell scored 5 points, including a three-point play, to open 9-14 lead. But Efes scored the next 6 points, a run sparked by Bryant, before Smits and Nwora nailed back-to-back three-pointer to make it 21-16. ALBA tied it back up through Louis Olinde and Hermannsson, as the first 10 minutes featured six lead changes and five ties, but Efes ended up taking a 24-21 lead into the second quarter.

The trend continued in the second quarter, which Hermannsson opened with a three-point play, then Wetzell followed it up with a dunk. But Nwora answered with a three-pointer. Larkin fed Poirier for a dunk and Nwora for a wide-open triple, then back-to-back triples from Derek Willis opened 42-29 lead with 4 minutes left in the half. Justin Bean’s three-point play snapped a 13-0 run, and Olinde also had a three-point play, but Efes held 48-35 at halftime.

Poirier and Willis extended the margin to 16 points in the early going of the third quarter, but Wetzell had a three-point play and Thomas nailed a three-pointer to make it 53-43. Bryant answered with a three-point play, but McCormack’s three-point play got ALBA within 56-48. However, Nwora nailed another triple, later added a basket-and-1, then beat the end-of-the-quarter buzzer with a put-back layup to make it 68-55 after 30 minutes.

Procida had a four-point play that cut the lead to 70-59 early in the fourth, but Larkin nailed a three-pointer. McCormack and Poirier traded close-range baskets as the margin remained in double figures, before layups from Poirier and Wills made it 82-65 with exactly 5 minutes left. A three from PJ Dozeir and an acrobatic layup from Larkin broke the 20-point barrier, 87-65, before Efes closed out the game.