Featuring the official license of EuroLeague Basketball with the top 50 clubs in Europe, and the Turkish ING Basketbol Sper Ligi.Larkin had 38 points in Game 5, as Efes exacted revenge from the Turkish Cup final.Efes, which has now won seven straight, made a blistering start to take a.
Euroleague Basketball Manager 2008 License Of EuroLeagueEfes played outstanding basketball in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague all season long. With the same coach, Ergin Ataman, and the same core of players that reached the championship game the year before featuring Shane Larkin, Vasilije Micic, Rodrigue Beaubois, Krunoslav Simon, James Anderson, Adrien Moerman, Bryant Dunston and Tibor Pleiss, among others, Efes ranked topped the standings with a 24-4 record when the competition was halted. Before that, Larkin broke the EuroLeagues single-game scoring record with 49 points against FC Bayern Munich on November 29, 2019. Larkin was chosen MVP of the Month in both November and January and earned MVP of the Round honors six times. He was the MVP in four consecutive rounds, from Rounds 18 to 21, to set another record. Efes also led the Turkish League with a 21-2 record, but had lost against Darussafaka Tekfen Istanbul in the Turkish Cup quarterfinals. Efes won its first Turkish League trophy in 1979 and made it to the EuroLeague quarterfinals group stage the following season. More Turkish League crowns came in 1983 and 1984, but Efes did not become a dominant club and a European contender until the 1990s when it went on a glorious run and won the Turkish championship in five of six seasons through 1997 under the tutelage of Coach Aydin Ors. Thats when Efes also put Turkey on the continental basketball map for good. In 1993, Larry Richard, Petar Naumoski and Ufuk Sarica took Efes to the Saporta Cup final, but Aris Thessaloniki escaped with a narrow win. In 1996, Efes became the first Turkish club to win a European title when Naumoski and Sarica joined forces with Conrad McRae and a young Mirsad Turkcan to lead Efes to the Korac Cup crown by downing Olimpia Milan in the finals. Efes soon became a EuroLeague regular and in 2000 the club achieved another first among Turkish teams by making the Final Four, a milestone it repeated in the 2001 SuproLeague with Hedo Turkoglu, Mehmet Okur, Predrag Drobnjak, Ibrahim Kutluay and Damir Mulaomerovic leading the way. Efes came within one shot of reaching the 2004 Final Four too, but was denied by Skipper Bolognas Gianluca Basile. It was back dominating domestically during that span, in which Efes won four consecutive Turkish championships from 2002 through 2005. The club lifted Turkish Cups in 2006 and 2007 and did even better in 2009 by winning the Turkish League and Cup double, but had to wait until 2015 to capture another trophy the Turkish Cup after beating archrival Fenerbahce in the final. Euroleague Basketball Manager 2008 Series In TheEfes qualified for the EuroLeague Playoffs in 2013, but lost to eventual champion Olympiacos Piraeus in a classic series in the maximum five games. In 2016-17, the squad coached by Velimir Perasovic reached the playoffs for the third time in five years thanks to a sixth-place finish in the regular season. Its series against Olympiacos was the only one to reach Game 5 that season, but Efes eventually fell to the Reds. Efes ended a three-year title drought with a Turkish Cup triumph in 2018, but the arrival of Larkin and Micic took the club to another level. Against all odds, Efes went from being last in the 2017-18 EuroLeague to runner-up a year later. Then Efes downed Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul 73-92 behind 30 points from Larkin to reach the championship game. CSKA Moscow stood in its way, but Efes went home and completed a great season by lifting its first Turkish League title since 2009.
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