{"id":151233,"date":"2025-09-18T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151233\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:58:10","slug":"aek-and-fenerbahce-play-out-thrilling-102-102-draw-after-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151233\/","title":{"rendered":"AEK and Fenerbah\u00e7e play out thrilling 102\u2013102 draw after overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eurohoops team\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n

AEK and Fenerbah\u00e7e<\/a> played an intense, back-and-forth preseason game full of momentum swings and clutch plays.<\/p>\n

The game ended 102\u2013102 after overtime,\u00a0after \u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius opted against a second overtime, leaving both teams to share the spoils.<\/p>\n

In overtime, Dimitris Flionis briefly put AEK ahead 102\u2013100, but missed opportunities by Armando Bacot and Flionis allowed Tarik Biberovi\u0107 to tie it 102\u2013102 with 0.7 seconds left. Bartley\u2019s last-second three-pointer also missed.<\/p>\n

The Greek team, coached by Dragan \u0160akota, showed resilience throughout, with Frank Bartley leading the way with 30 points and nine assists. Adonis Arms added 21 points, Chris Silva contributed 19 points, five rebounds, and four assists, while RaiQuan Gray chipped in 13 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n

For Fenerbah\u00e7e<\/a>, Tarik Biberovi\u0107 led the scoring with 24 points, followed by Devin Hall with 22, and Wade Baldwin added 17 points and six assists. Armando Bacot and Brandon Boston each scored 10 points, with Bacot also securing 11 rebounds for a double-double.<\/p>\n

The game featured multiple lead changes, including late baskets from both sides, and ended in a draw.<\/p>\n

Wins for Zalgiris, Barcelona\u2026<\/p>\n

Kaunas \u201c\u017dalgiris\u201d closed their preseason with a 68\u201363 victory over Tautvydas Sabonis\u2019 \u201cLions\u201d at London\u2019s Copper Box Arena. Sabonis, a former \u017dalgiris assistant coach, saw his team push hard, but \u017dalgiris gradually built a lead through Laurynas Birutis, Moses Wright, and Sylvain Francisco, with Dustin Sleva and Mantas Rub\u0161tavi\u010dius adding key baskets.<\/p>\n

Despite a late push from the Lions, led by J. Williams and K. McGusty, \u017dalgiris held on in the final seconds with Deividas Sirvydis and Edgaras Ulanovas sealing the win from the free-throw line. Francisco led the team with 15 points, while Wright added 10 points, eight rebounds, and four blocks.<\/p>\n

In other news, Bar\u00e7a began their Lliga Catalana campaign with a solid 90\u201381 victory against MoraBanc Andorra. Despite missing Juan N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Dar\u00edo Brizuela, Juani Marcos, and Tornike Shengelia, the Catalan side imposed their physical and technical superiority.<\/p>\n

Shannon Evans led Andorra with 22 points, while the Bar\u00e7a scoring was spread across several players. Willy Hernang\u00f3mez added 14 points, Will Clyburn 13, Kevin Punter 16, Tomas Satoransky 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net AEK and Fenerbah\u00e7e played an intense, back-and-forth preseason game full of momentum swings and clutch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-151233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}