Source: Sports Weekly
On the scoring screen of the Liaoning Gymnasium, the statistics of the Sichuan men's basketball team impressively displayed a big "19", which is their scoring data, but not a section score, but a score for the entire first half. On the left side of 19, the Guangsha men's basketball team scored "61".
On March 2, Beijing time, all the fans who entered the scene to watch the first game of Guangsha and Sichuan's third stage witnessed history, and the Sichuan men's basketball team scored only 19 points in the entire first half, creating a record for the lowest half-time score in CBA history. Prior to this, since the CBA League began in 1998-99, it has adopted a four-time system of 12 minutes per quarter and 48 minutes of the whole game, and the lowest score in the league halftime has been 21 points set by Xinjiang. Nowadays, history has been rewritten, but this is not a glorious thing.
When the two teams decided on the pre-match roster, they understood that it would be a game with a huge gap. The core foreign aid Haddadi on the Sichuan men's basketball team is absent, and the experienced outside veteran Han Shuo is also truce, and they suddenly lack two major backbones. In contrast, Guangsha, Sun Minghui, Hu Jinqiu, Zhao Yanhao and several core players all appeared, and big-name foreign aid Jalil Okafor also ushered in the CBA debut, and the paper strength gap between the two teams was very large.
At the beginning of the first quarter, Guangsha, who ranked third in the league, was full of intensity, they had two major heights of Okafor and Hu Jinqiu on the defensive end, and it was difficult for the Sichuan men's basketball team to kill the penalty area to score points, and had to gamble on the outside line. After 12 minutes, Guangsha had already led by 13 points at 28-15. But such a gap is still within the acceptable range, can enter the second quarter, Sichuan's attack and defense completely collapsed.
In the face of the iron wall of Guangsha, Sichuan seems to have completely abandoned the attack, and Chen Chen, Zhang Dianliang, Li Honghan, and Zhang Hui have all chosen to shoot three points. However, in the case of poor hand feeling, the Sichuan team continued to play the basket of the Liaoning Gymnasium. In the first half of the quarter, Zhang Dianliang scored twice, and Sichuan had already trailed to 23 points 19-42, but they did not expect that this was the team's last goal in the first half... Since then, Sichuan still has a large number of jump shots, but the bad feel continues to contagious, until there are 5 seconds left before the end of the first half, Zuo Yuannian got the opportunity to stand on the free throw line, if the two free throws are all in, the team can also "equalize" the lowest score in history, but the player who only appeared for the third time in the season has two penalties.
'The game was mainly won in the second quarter, the defense was very good, and there were two absolute main players on the other side who did not play because of injuries." Guangsha men's basketball coach Wang Bo said after the game. But in any case, only 4 points are scored in a single session, which is hard to believe in the standard of a professional team. It is worth mentioning that the 4 points in a single quarter is not the lowest in the history of the CBA, and the Guangdong men's basketball team had an absurd performance of only 1 point in a single quarter in the 2008-09 season, but tonight's Sichuan has also become the owner of the shameful record.
In the end, the gap between the two sides widened, and the score was fixed at 106-57. Sichuan shot 31.4 percent from the field and made 2-of-20 three-pointers. According to statistics, 57 points set a new low in the history of the Sichuan men's basketball team, after their lowest score was 63 points. The other 49-point loss margin is the second largest in Sichuan's history, after losing 53 points to Guangdong in 2013-14. At the same time, 49 points is also the second largest single-game point difference in the CBA this season, and the third largest win point difference in the history of the Guangsha men's basketball team.
"In this game, first of all, there is indeed a big gap in strength between us and Guangsha. Another is that Haddadi and Han Shuo can't play and still have a great impact on the team's offensive and defensive ends. There are also many problems in the team today, go back and summarize it in time. Sichuan coach Zhou Jinli said helplessly after the game. Zhang Hui, the player's representative, said: "Probably because of the first game of the third stage, everyone's overall shooting rate is low and lack of fighting spirit on the field, I hope that our shooting rate will increase in the future, and continue to fight every game." ”