The Turkish side had been struggling of late but finished 2025 with a victory
Bahcesehir satisfied with serious showing against limited Hamburg
Game Report
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Regular Season
Round 12 of 18
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Bahcesehir College IstanbulBKS
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Bahcesehir College Istanbul closed 2025 on a high note, delivering a professional, wire-to-wire performance to snap recent struggles with a comfortable home win over winless Veolia Towers Hamburg.
Bahcesehir shared the ball crisply and dominated the paint in a 105–68 victory, piling up 28 assists against just seven turnovers while shooting a blistering 80.0% on two-point attempts. The Turkish side placed five players in double figures, led by Malachi Flynn and Caleb Homesley with 17 points apiece. Hunter Hale added 16, while all 11 players who saw the floor scored at least five points except Trevion Williams, who finished with 2 points but contributed 10 rebounds and 2 assists.
“This was a very good game from our side. We were very serious from the first moment,” head coach Marko Barac said. “After they punished us with a couple of threes, we tightened up the defense.”
Bahcesehir used an 18–4 run in the first quarter to open an eight-point lead, and the lead swelled to 21 points midway through the second quarter. The outcome was effectively settled by halftime, with the hosts up 63–38 and never looking back.
“The ball was moving the way I want,” Barac said. “We had many open looks. We didn’t score a lot of them from three (24.2%), but this is what I need. I trust that my team will keep working and those shots will fall.”
The win lifted Bahcesehir to 8–4 overall and 4–2 at home after losing three of its previous four games. The 63-point first half narrowly missed the club’s highest-scoring half in competition history, while the 105-point total was one shy of the season high set in a road win at Hamburg earlier this year. Bahcesehir’s single-game scoring record remains 110.
“We just needed to come out and play like we know we can,” Flynn said. “It was a good one for us, and we want to keep this going.” Flynn also posted 4 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals for a performance index rating of 24.
Hamburg dropped to 0–12, still searching for its first EuroCup victory. Devon Daniels led the visitors with 22 points, while recent addition Ross Williams chipped in 16.
“We started the game well and found a good rhythm in the first quarter, but we never established our defense,” Hamburg coach Benka Barloschky said. “They shot 80 percent from two-point range. Defensively, we were just not up for the task.”
Barloschky noted that injuries and illness forced him into a limited rotation.
“We’re going through a very rough patch,” he said. “We have players sick, players missing, and players competing through illness. I have to protect my team a little, but I still wasn’t satisfied with the defensive performance.”
