Two of Tuesday's winners go head to head with fresh breezes of confidence at their backs despite mutual injury woes as ALBA (2-10) hosts Efes (6-6) in Berlin.
Erten Gazi, Efes: 'ALBA's morale will be high'
2023-24
3 Lesezeit
Regular Season
Round 13 of 34
Regular Season
ALBA BerlinBER
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Anadolu Efes IstanbulEFS
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ALBA's narrow victory over Zalgiris ended a six-game losing streak, and the host can take confidence from a much-improved defensive performance which allowed just 20 field goals to be converted by forcing 23 turnovers. Offensively, Johannes Thiemann was again the main contributor with 16 points on 10-of-11 free throws, and dealing with his physical presence is a major challenge for Efes. That task will largely fall to Tyrique Jones, who delivered a monster performance in Efes's win over Panathinaikos with 21 points and 13 rebounds including 7 at the offensive end, and he will look to maintain that form in Berlin.
Israel Gonzalez, ALBA head coach
"We have lot of injury problems, but we are going to work 40 minutes. If we are able to continue our defense like in the last game against Zalgiris, we will have a chance."
Erdem Can, Efes head coach
"ALBA Berlin is a young and an energetic team. They had an important victory against Zalgiris Kaunas yesterday. They play good basketball on their own court. We need to react to this correctly."
Jonas Mattisseck, ALBA player
"We are all excited about tomorrow's game. For sure we want to take the confidence from the game against Kaunas with us, and we want to be ready from the beginning. Efes will also be full of confidence after beating Panathinaikos on Tuesday, despite their injury worries."
Erten Gazi, Efes player
"At a time when our morale was low due to the injuries that we experienced within the team, we came together and got a victory worthy of Anadolu Efes against Panathinaikos Aktor. We want to show Anadolu Efes's fight in Berlin again, get two wins in the double-game week, and complete this heavy week in the best way. I think ALBA Berlin's morale will be high with their last win, so a good game awaits us."