CBA League twenty-fourth round, ushered in the Beijing-Tianjin derby, Beijing Shougang home to meet the Tianjin forerunner, this is also the first meeting between the two sides of the season, the encounter without compromise, before the twenty-three rounds of competition Beijing Shougang ranked ninth in the league with 14 wins and 9 losses, the playoffs are basically worry-free, but there is still a big gap from the championship group, from the playoff point of view, they belong to the well-off level, but from the perspective of winning the championship is still poor households, and the Tianjin pioneers have been in a state of poverty for many years through two consecutive wins, Belongs to the transition stage of poverty alleviation and prosperity, currently 8 wins and 15 losses, although ranked sixteen, but there is only one win gap from the twelfth place Jilin team, and Jilin, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Qingdao constitute the current situation of workers crowding the subway door, no one is left behind and everyone has the opportunity to enter the playoff threshold.
At the beginning of the game, Beijing Shougang did not enter the game state quickly, and the advantage of the inner twin towers was not well utilized, but the Tianjin pioneer entered the state quickly, blossoming inside and outside, opening 10-2, stopping Beijing Shougang. After the suspension returned, Beijing Shougang finally stabilized the situation and gradually smoothed out the point difference, and the two sides entered a state of tug-of-war with the score being more anxious, and it was difficult for anyone to pull the score back apart. In the end, the two sides fought 28 to 26. From the overall strategy point of view, Beijing Shougang is obviously unsuccessful, after all, the Tianjin Forerunners competition in this section is the all-Chinese class. The two major foreign aides of Beijing Shougang have all appeared. Qiu Tian became a bench soldier, scoring six points in three minutes.
In the second section, Tianjin entered the layout of double foreign aid, which is also their current routine operation, making maximum use of the advantages of foreign aid in four sessions and five person-times. The tianjin forerunner started seven-to-zero again. Although Beijing Shougang quickly returned the 7-0 salute, it did not change the team's situation, and the Tianjin forerunners still firmly grasped the rhythm of the game, and the half-quarter game was 21-12 and already led by double digits. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Jeremy Lin scored six points to stabilize the military's heart. Helped the team play 12-0 against the opponent, the situation was maintained, and once overtook the score, and finally in the third quarter, the two sides fought 34-33, Beijing Shougang fell behind by one point, but this section of the game is acceptable for Beijing Shougang, after all, the opponent's double foreign aid tactics did not take much advantage. In the first half, the two sides were 62-59.
From the score in the first half, it can be seen that the rhythm of the first half is not in the hands of Beijing Shougang, allowing the opponent to score 62 points, which is certainly unsuccessful for Beijing Shougang, which averages only 86.91 points per game. Beijing Shougang still has to play out the defensive pressure if it wants to win this game, and for the Tianjin pioneers, this first half was very successful, and they are the ones who control the rhythm of the game. If they want to stand out in the big crowd that hits the playoffs, they need to play the first half like this.
Jeremy Lin opened the third quarter with a three-point equaliser. However, the scoring efficiency of both sides in this quarter has dropped significantly, and neither team has played a scoring climax in the first half of the game, and the two sides are still glued, but in the second half of the tianjin forerunners under the leadership of Rochester, they took the lead. A wave of 8-0 widened the point difference to nine points. This is the biggest point difference between the two sides in this section. Fortunately, In Beijing Shougang Lei Mengtian Yuxiang fired a cannon to chase points continuously, did not let the situation collapse, and finally 28-26 in the single quarter, Tianjin won a two-point advantage, with a five-point advantage into the final quarter of the competition.
The fourth quarter began with Tianjin Rochester killing the opponent's internal line, Beijing Shougang had less advantage, but the overall two sides were still strangled, and Beijing Shougang had not seen a scoring climax that could surpass the score. The situation is still under the control of Tianjin's forerunners. At the end of the half quarter, it still maintained its lead, and Beijing Shougang has been in a passive state of chasing points. The final stage of the game became Rochester's performance time, he suddenly shot the offensive organization shoulder to shoulder, and with two minutes left in the game, Tianjin regained an 11-point lead. Beijing Shougang has gone. In the final quarter, Tianjin won seven more points 36-29, and won Beijing Shougang with a 126-114, 12-point advantage.
In this game, Tianjin Forerunner shot 21 of 40 three-pointers, shooting 53% of the time, and only the outside three points scored 63 points, like a three-point rainstorm. Rochester, on eleven-of-seventeen shooting, made six-of-ten three-pointers. Hits up to 60%. He got a game-high 37, setting a new season for his highest score. Jeremy Lin, who gradually found his form, played 23 minutes and efficiently got 21 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, but he was not able to help the team win a game. Tianjin's forerunners won Beijing Shougang and opened their dark horse road in the second half of the league with three consecutive wins.