{"id":482626,"date":"2026-02-06T20:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=482626"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:31:45","slug":"efes-withstands-the-swings-and-completes-a-perfect-double-round-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/efes-withstands-the-swings-and-completes-a-perfect-double-round-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Efes withstands the swings and completes a perfect double-round week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2248\" data-end=\"2594\"><strong data-start=\"2248\" data-end=\"2264\">Anadolu Efes<\/strong> beat <strong data-start=\"2270\" data-end=\"2282\">Zalgiris<\/strong> 92-82 to finish the double-round week with two wins, keeping their positive momentum after earlier back-to-back victories in other stretches against Bayern Munich and Barcelona. Coming in with confidence after Valencia, Efes knocked down <strong data-start=\"2521\" data-end=\"2534\">16 threes<\/strong> and generated <strong data-start=\"2549\" data-end=\"2563\">24 assists<\/strong>, consistently finding offense.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2596\" data-end=\"2973\">Efes started scorching hot, opening 5\/5 from deep and leading 17-12 at the five-minute mark, then closing the first quarter up 25-24 on 7\/9 three-point shooting. Defense kept it from breaking open: Zalgiris climbed back and briefly moved ahead through Tubelis\u2019 post work (41-39), but Efes still held a 47-45 halftime lead, with Weiler-Babb on 10 and both Loyd and Dozier on 11.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2975\" data-end=\"3558\">The third quarter swung again as Osmani helped Efes stretch it to 55-45, only for Zalgiris to surge when Efes couldn\u2019t convert against the zone, turning it into a 67-65 Zalgiris edge heading to the last 10 minutes. Efes opened the fourth with maximum energy, cut out easy baskets and flipped it to 76-71 with six minutes left, before Tubelis\u2019 three made it 78-77 for Zalgiris. Saben Lee\u2019s isolations pushed Efes back in front (83-82 with 2:18 left), and <strong data-start=\"3429\" data-end=\"3444\">Jordan Loyd<\/strong> buried his fourth triple with 42 seconds remaining to land the key blow at 86-82, setting up the closing stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efes seals a second win in the double week, riding three-point shooting and ball movement even through rough stretches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":482625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-482626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/HAf2KDHX0AAKgy8.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482626"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=482626"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=482626"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=482626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}