Turkish League, Regular Season, Game 10: December 8-9, 2007 - TURKEY

May 23, 2013

Turkish League, Regular Season, Game 10: December 8-9, 2007

Huseyin Besok, Charles Gaines and Chris Owens dominated the paint for a total of 55 points at Galatasaray Cafe Crown downed Fenerbahce Ulker 88-77 in the Istanbul derby. The result saw red-hot Galatasaray win its fourth straight Turkish League game to improve to 8-2, keeping it in second place and one victory behind leader Turk Telekom, which downed Mersin Buyuksehir Belediyesi on the road 66-93 behind Erwin Dudley’s 24 points and 16 rebounds. Efes Pilsen was shocked by Alpella 98-92 for its fourth loss of the season. Despite leading for three quarters, Efes conceded 31 points in the last period. Young center Omer Asık led Alpella with 25 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists. Besiktas Cola Turka struggled against Kepez Belediyesi, but won 97-89 in overtime to remain tied for third place. Sinan Guler and Preston Shumpert stepped up in the extra period to lead Besiktas to its seventh win. Meanwhile Gary Neal and Quinton Hosley combined for 56 points to lead Pinar Karsiyaka past Mutlu Aku Selcuk University 83-78, keeping it also in third place at 7-3. In other games, Ricardo Marsh scored 24 to lead Antalya Buyuksehir Belediye over Banvit 83-80, TTNet Beykoz got 14 points and 19 boards from Curtis Withers to top Darussafaka 71-74 and Oyak Renault climbed out of the cellar by downing CASA TED Kolejliler 70-76 thanks to 23 points and 17 boards from John Randle.

Huseyin Besok, Charles Gaines and Chris Owens dominated the paint for a total of 55 points at Galatasaray Cafe Crown downed Fenerbahce Ulker 88-77 in the Istanbul derby. The hosts played once again without the injured Tufan Ersoz, but Fenerbahce had two important players out, Ibrahim Kutluay and Semih Erden, due to injury. Galatasaray made an impressive start to the game with an 8-0 run through 6 points by Owens, but Fenerbahce tied the game later in the period at 14-14 on a James White jumper. Cuneyt Erden’s three-pointer ended the first quarter with the hosts up 22-18. Galatasaray’s defensive pressure grew in the second period and when Gaines converted a basket-plus-free throw, he extended the lead to 9 points, though Fener managed to get within 39-35 by halftime. Besok opened the second half with another three-pointer as Galatasaray started to get huge support with the noisy 3,000 fans at Sahenk Arena. Owens three later in the period made it 62-47 and his layup ended the third quarter at 64-53 for Galatasaray. The hosts cooled down in the last quarter, but the duo of Owens and Gaines were enough to keep Galatasaray comfortably ahead. Spectacular dunk followed spectacular dunk midway through the period as the lead peaked at 78-61 on the way to a Galatasaray victory. Owens finished with 22 points plus 7 rebounds, Besok had 18 points and 8 boards and both Gaines and Erden added 15 each. Erden dished 8 assists, too. Mirsad Turkcan was the only big man standing for Fener with 18 points plus 10 boards; White ended up with 16 and both Willie Solomon and Demir Kaan added 14 each.

Efes Pilsen was shocked by Alpella 98-92 on the Asian side of İstanbul, at the Kadıkoy Caferaga gym for the fourth loss of its season. Despite leading for three quarters, Efes conceded 31 points just in the last period to suffer the loss. Young center Omer Asık led Alpella with 25 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists. Serhat Cetin added 19 and both Damien Kinloch and Can Ozcan scored 17 each for Alpella. Andre Hutson scored 18 points, grabbed 9 rebounds and dished 4 assists, Ermal Kuqo added 17 points, Kenny Gregory 15 and Ender Arslan scored 13 for Efes Pilsen.

Turk Telekom remained on top of the standings by crushing Mersin Buyuksehir Belediyesi 66-93 in Mersin to improve its record to 9-1. Erwin Dudley scored 24 and grabbed 16 rebounds, while his compatriot Michael Wright scored 21 and Khalid El Amin added 17 points plus 8 assists. Michael Jones scored 17 points for Mersin in defeat. Besiktas Cola Turka struggled to beat Kepez Belediyesi of Antalya 97-89 in overtime. The home team went into the last period up 59-56, but Kepez managed to tie it at 80-80. The great efforts of Sinan Guler and Preston Shumpert in the overtime period kept the win home. Sandro Nicevic scored 25 points and grabbed 8 boards for Besiktas, Shumpert and Guler added 20 each and Christian Dalmau scored 16 points and dished 8 assists for Besiktas. Keith Simmons scored 25 points and Lorenzo Gordon added 19 for Kepez.

LAST GAME GAME 10 December 8-9, 2007
Day	Match	Result
Dec. 8	Besiktas C. Turka vs. Kepez	97-89OT
Dec. 8	Alpella vs. Efes Pilsen	98-92
Dec. 9	Darussafaka vs. TTNet	71-74
Dec. 8	Galatasaray vs.Fenerbahce	88-77
Dec. 8	CASA TED vs. Oyak Renault	70-76
Dec. 8	Antalya BSB. vs. Banvitspor	83-80
Dec. 8	Mersin vs. Turk Telekom	66-93
Dec. 9	Pinar vs. Mutlu Aku	83-78

NEXT GAME GAME 11 December 14-16, 2007
Day	Match
Dec. 16	Fenerbahce vs. Kepez
Dec. 15	Efes Pilsen vs. CASA TED
Dec. 14	TTNet vs. Galatasaray
Dec. 15	Turk Telekomvs.Daruss.
Dec. 15	Antalya vs. Besiktas C.
Dec. 15	Oyak Renault vs. Pinar
Dec. 15	Banvitspor vs. Alpella
Dec. 14	Mutlu Aku vs. Mersin BSB.

	STANDINGS	TG	W	L	P+	P-
1	Turk Telekom	10	9	1	941	792
2	Galatasaray Cafe Crown	10	8	2	782	695
3	Pinar Karsiyaka	10	7	3	871	845
4	Fenerbahce Ulker	10	7	3	846	765
5	Besiktas Cola Turka	10	7	3	820	705
6	Alpella	10	6	4	734	771
7	Efes Pilsen	10	6	4	841	757
8	Antalya Bsb.	10	5	5	744	786
9	Mersin Bsb.	10	4	6	719	763
10	Ttnet Beykoz	10	4	6	717	749
11	Kepez Bld.	10	4	6	732	764
12	Mutlu Aku Selcuk Uni.	10	4	6	770	851
13	Banvitspor	10	3	7	757	774
14	Casa Ted Kolejliler	10	3	7	783	853
15	Oyak Renault	10	2	8	649	730
16	Darussafaka	10	1	9	674	780