Barça will have to row and sweat in the second half if they want to win their third Euroleague basketball. After winning by 10 points in the first quarter, Efes’ comeback has placed the Turkish team with an advantage on the scoreboard at halftime (36-39).
The success with which the Barça team started has vanished in this second quarter, weighed down by a bad night in the 3-point shot (2/12) and the void in the scoring for now by Nikola Mirotic, who in Ecuador the final has not yet inaugurated its points locker.
Efes has dominated this second quarter clearly with a 14-24 run, making good use of their trips to the line of three, and collecting two almost consecutive sets in their favor (0-9 and 0-10), the last of them that has taken the game from 29-26 for Barça to 29-36. Bolmaro and a triple by Kuric have broken Barça’s bad streak, in which the top scorers are for now the aforementioned Kuric and Davies, with 10 points each.