In the match at Ankara Sports Hall, Fenerbahçe Beko, the Super League champion of the last season, and Anadolu Efes, the winner of the Turkish Cup, faced each other.
Fenerbahce Beko finished the first half with a 19-point lead 42-23 against Anadolu Efes. Despite narrowing the gap to single digits in the last quarter, the dark blue-whites won the field 71-62 and became the owner of the trophy.
The cup, which was not organized in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, was once again defeated by Fenerbahçe in 2022, after 2018 and 2019. The navy-whites took the cup to the museum for the 13th time in total and continued to hold the title of the team that won this cup the most.
THE CUP WAS GIVEN BY VICE PRESIDENT FUAT OKTAY
Anadolu Efes’s trophy was presented by Vice President Fuat Oktay.
The dark blue and white team, who won the match played at Ankara Sports Hall 71-62, received the trophy, which they will take to the museum for the 13th time, with a ceremony.
Fuat Oktay and Minister of Youth and Sports Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoğlu presented the medals and the trophy to the Anadolu Efes technical committee and the players.
The second prize was given to Fenerbahçe Beko, the finalist of the cup, by Ömer Onan, the Deputy President of the Turkish Basketball Federation.
Anadolu Efes also succeeded in winning this cup for the third time in a row for the first time in its history. The navy-whites became the second team after Ülker to achieve this in this cup, which has been held since 1984.
ERGIN ATAMAN’S SIGNATURE ON 5 OF 13 CUP
Vice President Fuat Oktay followed the match between Anadolu Efes and Fenerbahçe Beko.
Fuat Oktay came to the hall in the last quarter of the match. Fuat Oktay was accompanied by Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoğlu, Minister of Youth and Sports, and Hidayet Türkoğlu, President of the Turkish Basketball Federation.
Anadolu Efes Head Coach Ergin Ataman won the President’s Cup for the 8th time in his career.
The experienced coach had previously won this trophy with Türk Telekom in 1997, Ülker in 2004 and 2005, and Anadolu Efes in 2000, 2009, 2018 and 2019. Ataman scored an important statistic by winning the cup in 2022 with the dark blue and white team.
Anadolu Efes won 5 of the 13 cups under the management of Ergin Ataman.
The number of trophies Ergin Ataman won at the head of Anadolu Efes increased to 12.
As the head coach, Ataman won the President’s Cup 5 times with the navy-whites, as well as 2 THY Europa Leagues, 3 Basketball Super Leagues and two Turkish Cups.
LOSE IN THE FIRST OFFICIAL MATCH
During his head coaching career, the number of trophies in Ataman’s club career increased to 24.
Dimitris Itioudis, the new head coach of Fenerbahce Beko, lost his first official match. With this defeat, many Fenerbahçe fans reacted to club President Ali Koç on social media.
The experienced head coach, who became the champion of the Europa League twice with the Russian team CSKA Moscow, could not experience the joy of victory against Anadolu Efes in his first exam in Turkey, which he returned to after 8 years.
Ante Zizic, the new transfer of Anadolu Efes, was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the Cup (MVP).
Completing the game with 22 points and 25 efficiency points, the Croatian player received his award at the ceremony held at the end of the match.
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