The CBA League continued, and this round ushered in a focus battle, with the fourth-ranked Zhejiang Chouzhou facing the eighth-place Shanxi men's basketball team. The gap in the rankings seems to be a bit large, and in the first meeting of the season, Zhejiang Chouzhou beat Shanxi by 40 points. However, the two teams played extremely fiercely in this game, and the regular time of the 4th quarter did not divide the winners and losers, until the last 2 seconds of the overtime, and finally Zhejiang Chouzhou defeated the Shanxi men's basketball team with a slight advantage of 2 points.
Zhejiang Chouzhou: Green 34 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, Wu Qian came off the bench and scored 21 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, Yu Jiahao 18 points and 12 rebounds, Wang Yibo 11 points and 6 rebounds and 6 assists, Cheng Shuaipeng 10 points, Lai Junhao 8 points and 8 rebounds, Lu Wenbo 7 points; Shanxi Men's Basketball Team: Felder 29 points and 5 assists, Simmons 26 points and 5 rebounds, Zhang Ning 15 points and 9 rebounds, Yan Pengfei 11 points and 8 rebounds, Ge Zhaobao 11 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Ge Zhaobao took the ball directly through the inside line, causing Yu Jiahao's foul, Wang Yibo easily made a layup with cover, and the original coach stopped to make another foul, and the two sides launched a fierce confrontation after the opening. Green and Wang Yibo scored consecutive attacks, Ge Zhaobao connected Zhang Chunjun to score misplaced, and Feld quickly attacked, and the score has been very sticky. Lai Junhao and Yu Jiahao scored five consecutive points, Feld assisted Ge Zhaobao back with a three-pointer, Xing Zhiqiang hat Wang Yibo, Zhang Ningqiang 2+1, Liu Ze a cover Simmons, Cheng Shuaipeng quickly attacked a foul, Simmons rebounded two times and hit a three-point shot, and zhejiang Chouzhou temporarily led the Shanxi men's basketball team at 24:21 at the end of the first quarter.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Zhang Ningdi took the lead in hitting three points to equalize. Zhejiang Chouzhou continued to attack the miss, Yan Pengfei scored again under the basket, Green hit a long-range hit at a critical moment, Simmons slipped the bottom line to win, and the two sides continued to bite the score. The Shanxi men's basketball team strengthened its defensive intensity and played a counterattack continuously, and Zhejiang Chouzhou hurriedly requested a timeout adjustment. Simmons scored consecutively again, the Shanxi men's basketball team expanded the point difference to 8 points, Yu Jiahao made up the basket to stop the scoring decline, Felder, Yan Pengfei consecutively grabbed the rebound in the front court, Cheng Shuaipeng broke through, the Shanxi men's basketball team had a very big advantage in the front court rebound, and the Shanxi men's basketball team surpassed the opponent by 8 points at the end of the half! It is worth mentioning that throughout the first half, the Shanxi men's basketball team grabbed 31 rebounds, of which 18 rebounds in the front court accounted for.
At the beginning of the second half of the game, Zhejiang Chouzhou grabbed the start, scoring eight consecutive points to directly equalize. Verderi suddenly shot in response to a five-pointer, Green continued to score without mercy, Zhejiang Chouzhou made consecutive breakthroughs to create fouls, and the Shanxi men's basketball team fouled five times in the opening three minutes. Felder retreated from mid-range shooting, Wu Qian arced a three-point shot, Feld continued to score efficiently, and the score between the two sides was never pulled. Green made two free throws, Zhejiang Chouzhou once again overtook the score, and the Shanxi men's basketball team requested a timeout. Lu Wenbo played again under the basket, the point difference was stretched to 7 points, Simmons hit a layup, Wu Qian responded in time, the third quarter ended, and Zhejiang Chouzhou rebounded by five points.
At the beginning of the decider season, Zhou Zhandong hit from mid-range, Wu's second attack won, Yan Pengfei hooked two points under the basket, Simmons quickly attacked and dunked Wang Zailu, and the point difference between the two sides narrowed to 1 point. Then the two sides continued to strengthen the defensive intensity, Green broke through the basket to create a foul, Ge Zhaobao hit a long-distance two-point shot, and the two sides returned to the same running line again. Xing Zhiqiang hit three more points on the outside line at the critical moment, Green did not score consecutively, Feld scored again, Zhang Ning hit another three points, and the Shanxi men's basketball team scored a wave of 8:0, expanding the point difference to 5 points. Green borrowed Yu Jiahao's cover and pulled out three points to bite the score. Yu Jiahao dunked with one hand, the original coach was not soft in three points, Green responded in time, the regular season ended, and the two sides fought to 97 draws into overtime.
At the beginning of overtime, Yu Jiahao scored two points first, Feld hit three points again, Wu Qian broke through to create a foul, the Shanxi men's basketball team still relied on Feld's fiery feel, Wu Qian hit three points at a critical moment, Zhang Ning made up for the basket hit, Green was not soft in the last moment, Zhejiang always maintained a weak lead, and at the critical moment, Felder equalized with a defensive hit. In the last minute, Wu Qian used his personal ability to hit a difficult shot, but Feld also used the back to respond, Green threw the shot, the original coach did not succeed, and finally Zhejiang Chouzhou narrowly defeated the Shanxi men's basketball team 111:109.
The game was broadcast live on the CCTV Sports Channel and gave a very high evaluation of the quality and competition of the game. The first time the Shanxi men's basketball team failed miserably by 40 points, CCTV admitted that it was not the real strength, and the Shanxi men's basketball team held its breath to compete with the opponent in this game. There are many difficulties in Zhejiang Chouzhou, not only many players are injured, but also the head coach and Fang Jun cannot appear on the sidelines. At this time, as the core of the team, Wu Qian took over the game with an injury at a critical moment, and compared with the excellent double foreign aid configuration of the Shanxi men's basketball team (Feld + Simmons scored a total of 55 points), showing a super MVP level, worthy of the title of CBA Curry. When CCTV commented on this game, it also used the "battle of the top" in this round to express the high level of competition.
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