Hapoel Tel Aviv defeated Anadolu Efes 118-88 at Botevgrad Arena in EuroLeague the eighth round. Antonio Blakeney scored 35 points as Hapoel built a 22-point halftime lead and extended it further in the third quarter. Efes suffered their fifth defeat in the competition despite a brief first-half rally that brought them close again. The game ended with a 30-point margin.
Hapoel Tel Aviv defeated Anadolu Efes 118-88 at Botevgrad Arena in Bulgaria in the eighth round of the EuroLeague. The result was Efes’s fifth defeat in the competition. Hapoel finished the opening quarter 27-21 ahead and reached halftime with a 63-41 advantage. Efes had briefly narrowed the gap early in the second quarter before Hapoel pulled away.[1], [2]
Antonio Blakeney led Hapoel with 35 points. Daniel Oturu added twenty and Elijah Bryant sixteen. Basketfaul described Oturu’s scoring as important during Hapoel’s first-half surges, while Blakeney had already reached twenty-one points by the interval. Efes drew within one point at 31-30 early in the second quarter, but the hosts responded and restored a substantial lead before halftime.[2]
Hapoel continued to score after halftime and led 90-59 at the end of the third quarter. Jordan Loyd finished with nineteen points for Efes, whose scoring was insufficient to bring the game back within reach. The final margin was thirty points. Hapoel’s scoring across the opening three quarters had left Efes facing a large deficit throughout the last period.[1]
