With the last two minutes left in the Beijing derby, Gibson was replaced by Barry Brown, and Shougang has not scored since. Beijing Control scored seven consecutive points, the score was fixed at 81-97, and Beijing Control avoided the record for the largest point difference in the history of the Beijing derby.
What it means to lose this Beijing derby, Marbury is well aware that North Control is already on the edge of the cliff, and the playoff situation is already very unoptimistic.
In this game, in addition to Zou Yuchen, who was reimbursed for the season, the registration lineup of Beijing Control was almost the strongest lineup that could be sent. Barry Brown, who has not yet played in the third stage of Shougang's injury, has replaced Jeremy Lin, who has been in a slump recently. Barry Brown made it to the start of the game, and Yannis's intentions were clear, allowing Brown to speed up the run-in with other players.
This game cannot be said that Shougang did not give Beijing Control mercy, and it can even be said that it gave the opportunity to "complete" Beijing Control. First, in order to train Brown, Yannis rarely tolerated his wanton non-tactical playing on the court. Brown played 10 minutes and 39 seconds in the first half, making as many as 11 shots and hitting only two goals. This frequency of shots has hardly been tolerated by a foreign aid since Yannis took charge.
Secondly, Shougang's desire to win is not very strong, and it can be seen from the mental state of the players after the opening that local players are generally not excited to play. The two main controllers, Fang Shuo and Liu Xiaoyu, are no longer in state, Fang Shuo has repeatedly passed mistakes, and Liu Xiaoyu has not hit how to shoot. Liu Xiaoyu played 15 minutes and scored only 3 points on 1-of-7 shooting, playing second fewest in season and second lowest in scoring season.
Moreover, Shougang's shooting rate throughout the first half was extremely low, especially in the outside line, hitting only 1 goal in 17 shots, and the shooting rate was only a pitiful 5.9%. Even Shougang only hit 1 of its first 20 shots. It wasn't until 2 minutes left in the first half that Yannis let Gibson play. If it's a game you can't lose, it might have been on Gibson very early. In the first half, Shougang scored two or three more three-pointers, and I am afraid that there is no suspense in the half.
Even if Shougang gives such an opportunity, Beijing Control can't grasp it, and it can't complain about anyone.
With the slow heat of Shougang, Beijing Control played a few minutes of good balls in the opening game, and once led 19-12, which was the biggest lead point difference in the whole game of Beijing Control, and the last lead. Subsequently, Beijing Control fell into a habitual power outage. Shougang had a 10-0 small climax that surpassed the score.
From Liao Sanning's jump shot with 4:35 left in the first quarter to 9:59 left in the second quarter, Landsberg scored 3+1, and in 6 minutes and 36 seconds, North Control only scored 1 point. After Lanzberg came on, he led North Control to a small climax, a wave of 8-0, and the two sides fought to a 28 draw. But Beijing Control once again fell into a scoring drought, and after 3 minutes and 56 seconds, Beijing Control was once again hit by Shougang for a wave of 10-0.
In the second and third quarters, Shougang had two or three time periods, and more than five consecutive attacks did not win, but Beijing Control "refused" to accept gifts. After only hitting 1 goal in the first 20 outside shots, Shougang found the shooting target, and the last 16 outside shots hit 9 goals, with a shooting rate of 56.3%. Gibson's successive killings caused North Control to collapse completely.
Before Gibson went off the court, the difference between the two sides reached 24 points. In derby history, the biggest net win difference between the two sides is 18 points, which was created when Shougang defeated Beikong at home in November 2016. Garbage time North Control scored 7 points in a row, and finally avoided the biggest loss point difference in the history of the two sides.
Although the whole game cannot be said to be useless, North Control does have few highlights. Compared with Shougang's strict team basketball, Beijing Control is like a mess. North Control does not have an absolute core and a backbone, the kind of leader who can carry the team.
In the key game, the spirit of North Control is not ideal, and it lacks the belief in bloody battles and victory. And that's exactly what team coach Marbury labels when he's a player. Cohesion is what this North Control lacks. Of the 12 players who played in this game, except for Zhang Fan, none of them played for this team for more than three seasons, and six of them only joined this season.
In fact, this game is just a microcosm of the North Control season. Every strong will lose, and one fight will collapse. After this round, Beijing Control played 20 games with the top 11 teams, with 4 wins and 16 losses. The four games won were Jilin, Shandong, Guangzhou and Guangdong. This is the lowest winning percentage of all the top 12 teams, and it can be said that as long as the opponent is slightly stronger, Beijing Control basically loses.
In the past nine games, Beijing Control has lost 7 games and only won Fujian and Guangdong. Watching the good playoff situation being buried by themselves, after this round, the records of Xinjiang and Tianjin have caught up with Beijing Control, and Tianjin has been ranked ahead of North Control by virtue of its win-loss relationship.
After Derby was killed twice, North Control was already on the edge of the cliff. Due to the 22-point defeat in the first game against Tianjin, Beijing Control even counts small points and has little hope. In the battle for the final ticket to the playoffs, Marbury and his team all but lost the initiative.