On March 22, Beijing Shougang defeated Ningbo 118-84 to end the regular season of the CBA with a record of 24 wins and 14 losses, ranking seventh. Shougang improved its ranking in the third stage of the regular season and also took a rotation of the lineup. Shougang is ready for the arrival of the playoffs, and the opponent in the first round is Jilin Team.
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Due to the overall weakness of the Ningbo team, the Shougang team did not encounter much resistance and won the game easily. Shougang did not take a break from the main players as in the previous two rounds, but played with all the main forces. The team hopes to gradually let the main players find the feeling through this game and prepare for the playoffs. The Shougang team took the initiative and had the upper hand from the beginning, and scored 31 points in the first quarter. In the second quarter they continued to expand the score, and the game lost suspense. In the last quarter, the Shougang team did not stop, and they once again scored a high score of 32 points in a single quarter. At this point, the Shougang team ended all the regular season games with a big victory.
Shougang guard Jeremy Lin scored a team-high 21 points, while also having six rebounds, five assists and five steals. Another defender, Gibson, also had a 17 in the book. Fan Ziming, who was suspended in the previous two rounds, returned from the ban in this round of competition, and he scored 15 points.
The Shougang team ranked eighth in the second stage, and after the third stage, it was promoted to seventh place. In the third stage of the regular season, the Shougang team's record was 7 wins and 3 losses. In the 3 games lost, the Shougang team had two rotations of many main players, resulting in a decline in the overall strength of the team. Shougang improved their results in the third stage, and also gave the main players the opportunity to adjust.
Head coach Yannis summed up the team's performance in 3 stages of the regular season. Shougang team played in the first stage in the all-Chinese class, and the confrontation with strong teams such as Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shanghai was 1 win and 1 loss. Although the ranking of the Shougang team at that time was not too high, the overall performance was good. Yannis said: "Before the start of this season, when we learned that the regular season this season is going to be divided into 3 stages, we knew that different periods would face different difficulties. We did a good job in the first stage, the team showed a strong fighting spirit, very aggressive. ”
In the second stage, the Shougang team had three foreign assistants, Jeremy Lin, Gibson and Brown. Yannis said: "Everyone knows that Jeremy Lin went through all kinds of things before he returned, and Gibson also returned in a hurry, and he only practiced with us twice before he went to war. In the second stage, in addition to trying to win every game, another important purpose is to run into the team and make the team's chemistry better. At the same time, Zhai Xiaochuan and Fang Shuo also gradually found their state at this stage. ”
In the third stage, the biggest change of the Shougang team was to welcome back the fourth foreign aid Hamilton. "In the fourth stage we have the return of the big man. The team's run-in is getting better and better, and the game is becoming more and more competitive. We see all of this in our eyes. ”
For the upcoming playoffs, Yannis sees it as a whole new challenge, and the team is ready for the playoffs. Shougang will face Jilin in the first round of the playoffs, where they have beaten their opponents twice in the regular season. The playoffs will be held in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province from April 1.