After 53 minutes of fierce fighting, Shanxi narrowly defeated Shenzhen 119-113 in extra time, ending the opponent's nine-game winning streak. This is the second time that Shanxi team defeated Haoqiang in the second stage of the regular season, and after winning this game, Shanxi team won all three games in the second stage and continued to run with full force in a dark horse posture.
Compared with the Shenzhen team, the Shanxi team does not seem to have much advantage. Although Shanxi can average 110.2 points per game and rank second in the league, Shenzhen team is not inferior to the third team with an average of 108.7 points per game. In terms of foreign aid configuration, both sides are double foreign aid, and the personal ability of Shenzhen team foreign aid Booker and Salinger seems to be even better. In the local lineup, the Shenzhen team has Shen Zijie, He Xining, Gu Quan and other national players, but the domestic players of the Shanxi team are relatively starless, and in recent years, few players have represented the national team or entered the national team training. Moreover, the Shenzhen team has won 9 consecutive victories before the game, and the momentum is like a rainbow, and in the last game, they just reversed the strong Guangsha team in the last moment. But it was under such circumstances that the Shanxi team, which did not seem to have the advantage of strength, finally laughed to the end.
Relying on the powerful firepower output, the Shanxi team began to bite the score from the first quarter, and did not give the Shenzhen team the opportunity to open the point difference. On the contrary, the Shanxi team itself played patiently enough, and has always attacked the Shenzhen team as a challenger, putting the posture very low. The Shenzhen team has repeatedly wanted to play the Mengshan Shanxi team, but the result is that it cannot be reached quickly. In the regular four quarters of the competition, the Shanxi team once led the double digits in the third quarter and dominated the game for a long time, but it made the Shenzhen team, which was determined to win the game, a little anxious.
In the last 5 minutes of the fourth quarter, the Shenzhen team relied on a wave of attack waves to fill the big pit behind and surpassed 5 points, but the Shanxi team did not panic. Under the leadership of foreign aid Feld, Zhang Ning hit both free throws, and Feld scored 5 points in a row, and the Shanxi team regained the lead. The two teams staggered their teeth and alternated scores, shanxi caused Shenzhen's mistakes twice in a row, and Zhang Ning's second attack, Shanxi finally dragged the game into extra time. With the shoulder injury of Shen Zijie, the main internal line of the Shenzhen team, the Shanxi team did not give the Shenzhen team another chance in extra time, and finally won the Shenzhen team, which ranked second in the league before the game and had a record second only to liaoning.
This is the first time that The Shanxi team has won the championship this season. In the first stage of the regular season, they had already beaten Liaoning 107-99. In that game, although Guo Allen has not yet returned, but Liaoning's Zhao Jiwei, Han Dejun, Zhang Zhenlin, Li Xiaoxu and other main or main rotations have participated in the game, Shanxi team at that time although it had foreign aid (at that time it was a single foreign aid Feld), but the overall strength was still not optimistic, the result was that Shanxi team scored 6 people in double figures and finally won.
In the second stage of the regular season, the Shanxi team was once again jaw-dropping. Facing defending champions Guangdong, Shanxi won 125-99. Under the defense of Guangdong, Shanxi shot 23 three-pointers that set a new team's this season's high, the league's new high this season and the team's record high, and the three-point shooting rate was as high as 46%. In terms of rebounds, assists, steals and other data, Shanxi team completely suppressed the Guangdong team and ended the 13-game losing streak against the Guangdong team. Now, the Shanxi team has knocked the haoqiang Shenzhen team to the ground, once again interpreting its dark horse nature with performance. After defeating Shenzhen, Shanxi ranked 6th in the league with 12 wins and 4 losses, beating the Guangdong team with the same record.
The current results of the Shanxi team are obviously beyond the expectations of many people. Just before the start of the season, Shanxi was still a despised team. Last season, although they had two foreign players, Franklin and Morland, they missed the playoffs after changing the head coach, and only ranked 15th in the league. This summer, the Shanxi team released the local core Ren Junwei, foreign aid Franklin also left the team to join the Shanghai team, and another foreign aid Moland joined the Liaoning team. The Shanxi team replaced the head coach and invited back the former head coach Yang Xuezeng, the foreign aid chose Feld and Simmons, and the introduction of local players was a small repair. Among them, Felder performed mediocrely in Guangsha last season (averaging 14.3 points and 5.7 assists per game), and was not used by Guangsha to renew his contract first after the end of the season. Simmons left the team early because of his poor performance in Liaoning last season (averaging 9 points per game), playing only 16 games.
However, the Shanxi team, which is thus configured, has once again impressed people under the leadership of champion coach Yang Xuezeng. In the first stage, the Shanxi team achieved a certain performance, which can be said to be the dividend of foreign aid, after all, they were one of the few teams in the league to have foreign aid. But in the second stage, with 19 of the 20 teams in the league having foreign aid, half of the teams have a double foreign aid configuration, and the Shanxi team, which has no advantage in the foreign aid configuration, can still beat guangdong and Shenzhen teams, which is enough to show that they should not be underestimated.
Of course, the Shanxi team will face more challenges, the next schedule, they will also face the Beijing team, and once again with the Shenzhen team, Guangdong team, but with the current stage of performance, Shanxi team has more confidence and confidence to compete with the opponent, they also have enough ability to create trouble for the opponent, strive to win.
Before the start of the season, Shanxi's new head coach Yang Xuezeng said the team's goal was to return to the playoffs. At that time, Yang Xuezeng's words were questioned a lot, after all, the configuration of the Shanxi team looked like it was even lower than last season, and they did not qualify for the playoffs last season. But from the current point of view, the Shanxi team, once again led by Yang Xuezeng, has every opportunity to achieve their goals.