Record start led ASVEL to dominant win

This has been the most competitive of all seasons in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, but LDLC ASVEL’s convincing 91-77 win over Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul on Thursday night – although by no means the biggest winning margin – was perhaps the most one-sided encounter we have seen so far in terms of start to finish dominance.
ASVEL scored the first 11 points of the game, with new signing Dee Bost hitting 3 triples. That was the best start to a EuroLeague game in ASVEL’s history, surpassing the previous club best of 9-0 which had been achieved on two occasions. And that, essentially, was the game. With the opening salvo coming in the first 2 minutes and 20 seconds, Fenerbahce spent the rest of the game – more than 37 minutes – constantly trailing by at least 9 points, and never getting the margin below double digits in the final 28 minutes.
There was a brief flurry from Fenerbahce when Carsen Edwards scored a couple of triples early in the fourth quarter, reducing the deficit to 75-63 with more than 7 minutes still remaining. But then Nando De Colo decided that a comeback was not on the night’s menu, scoring 9 points in precisely 90 seconds to stretch the gap back to 16 points, 84-68, and ensuring that ASVEL’s control of the contest would last the full 40 minutes.