As a dark horse team in this season's CBA League, Shanxi Fenjiu has maintained a very good result at the end of the first stage and the first half of the second stage, and even rushed to the top four of the standings at one point. Considered by some fans to have a chance to advance to the playoffs final four and compete for the championship. However, with the reinforcement of the personnel of various traditional strong teams and the increasing emphasis on the Shanxi men's basketball team, coupled with their own playing style being thoroughly studied by the other side, the team's performance has begun to decline, and it has now reached 17 wins and 10 losses, ranking 8th in the standings, and the same performance as the 9th Beijing Control. In the new round, if they lose the match against Shandong Expressway, they will face the danger of being squeezed out of the top eight.
As the opponent of the final round of the second stage of the Shanxi men's basketball team, the Shandong men's basketball team is not having a good life. After all, last season they still rushed all the way to the final four and have a strong competitiveness, but this season has slipped to the point where they can not guarantee whether they can qualify for the playoffs. Fortunately, even if the team is a little undulating, some hard battles can be won, and still has some characteristics of a strong team, so for this direct dialogue between the two sides at the end of the second stage, both teams are determined to win and strive to win. And such a game is of course more attractive to fans.
At the beginning of the game, the Shandong men's basketball team sent the starting fivesome of Liu Yi, Chen Peidong, Li Jingyu, Hudson and Tao Hanlin. And the Shanxi men's basketball team still maintains the lineup they have recently become accustomed to, that is, Ge Zhaobao, Xing Zhiqiang, Feld, Jia Hao and Yuan Shuai. Judging from the first quarter of the game, Jia Hao used a small throw from the middle distance to help the Shanxi men's basketball team open the record, and Hudson used the outside three points to help the Shandong men's basketball team score the first 3 points. In the whole first half, because the physical fitness of both sides was relatively good, the attack and defense were also played very quickly, but the combination of the Shandong men's basketball team inside and outside was more smooth, coupled with Hudson's personal control also played a role on the field, Tao Hanlin played a tougher game, after The appearance of Gillenwater, it was a good state that had not been seen for a long time on the inside line, and there was a continuous situation of playing 2 +1, Gao Shiyan and Chen Peidong also had key three points in the moment when they needed to maintain the score lead on the field, and the first quarter ended, The Shandong men's basketball team scored a 27-23 4-point lead for the first time. In addition, they also used the second quarter to continue to open up the 4-point difference, until the end of the first half, the original coach's three-point shot helped the Shanxi men's basketball team to be pulled apart by 13 points at one point, slightly forced to score, 51-43, to the end of the first half, Shandong men's basketball team also has an 8-point lead. Throughout the first half, Tao Hanlin, Hudson and Gillentwater scored 16, 11 and 12 points respectively, while the Shanxi men's basketball team only had Ge Zhaobao scored 10 points in doubles.
From a certain point of view, the last minute of the first half of the whistle three-point hit, so that the Shanxi men's basketball team in the halftime, the game momentum has a great degree of improvement, the beginning of the second half, Feld broke through the inside line to create free throw opportunities, Jia Hao's three points also continued to force the two sides to point difference. Then Chen Peidong fouled Ge Zhaobao, and then sent Ge Zhaobao to the free throw line, and Ge Zhaobao also shot three points on the outside line, only more than three minutes, the Shanxi men's basketball team chased the score to 53-53. The two teams also entered a state of score glue, from 55-55 to 59-59, and the Shanxi men's basketball team once had a slight lead after the continuous tug-of-war between the two sides. However, at the end of the third quarter, Gyllenwater stood up again, shooting inside and outside, plus Gao Shiyan also had a three-point shot, the third quarter of the game between the two sides ended, the two teams were fixed at 83-81, and the Shandong men's basketball team also led by 2 points.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the competition between the two sides entered a white-hot situation. Felder just hit a three-point shot here, and Gironwart picked up Gao Shiyan's pass on the other side. Halfway through the quarter, the Shandong men's basketball team led the Shanxi men's basketball team by 3 points 93-90. At the moment when the Shandong men's basketball team made a steady shot, Ge Zhaobao's outside line was also unambiguous, and as Zhang Ning's basket was forced to create a foul, the score between the two sides came to a 95-95 draw. At this point, it was only 3 and a half minutes before the end of the game. In the final three minutes of the decisive victory, the two teams also once played a 100-100 draw, Zhang Ning and the original coach made consecutive fouls on the free throw line, and once helped the Shanxi men's basketball team to achieve a 105-100 score lead, watching the balance of victory and defeat begin to tilt towards the Shanxi men's basketball team. The Shandong men's basketball team called a timeout at this time, and Gyllenwater not only played three points successfully in the next offensive link, but also created a foul to get a 3+1 chance, as the players of the Shandong men's basketball team continued to go to the free throw line, they chased the score into a draw again. Chen Peidong's three-pointer wished the Shandong men's basketball team another lead. In the 42 seconds of the decisive victory, with Gillenwater's dunk hit and Chen Peidong's 2 free throws, and Zhang Ning's three-point large vacancy lost its focus, the Shandong men's basketball team played a 33-31 shanxi men's basketball team in the single quarter, and also won the final victory of the game with a score of 116-112.
Let's look at the main data of the two sides in this game: on the Shanxi men's basketball side, Felder scored 25 points, 10 rebounds, 19 assists and 4 steals, the original coach scored 20 points, Zhang Ning contributed 23 points and 7 rebounds, and Ge Zhaobao also scored 22 points. On the Shandong men's basketball side, 5 people scored in double figures, and Giron Water scored a game-high 45 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists, becoming the player with the highest score in the game. Tao Hanlin had 18 points and 10 rebounds, Hudson also contributed 15 points, Chen Peidong had 13 points, and Gao Shiyan contributed 11 points and 6 assists.