On the evening of March 22, Beijing time, the CBA League regular season finale Guangdong Hongyuan and Shandong High-speed played, the two teams played overtime, and finally Shandong defeated Guangdong Hongyuan 111-110. Gillenwater watered most of the season in the final game with 29 points and 13 rebounds to bring Shandong High Speed to 11th place, and the playoffs will be against Shenzhen New Century.
Since Tianjin lost to Xinjiang earlier, Shandong could avoid Guangdong in the playoffs if it could beat Guangdong Hongyuan, compared to Shandong's playoffs, which was far better than playing Guangdong, so it also forced Shandong Expressway to do its best to win.
Guangdong Hongyuan showed strong defensive ability in the first quarter, Shandong High-speed only scored 19 points in a single quarter, and Shandong team trailed by 9 points in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the game played a small climax in the middle of the Shandong High Speed, Ding Yanyu airline threw three points after Shandong team with a 16-1 scoring shock wave once surpassed the score, but Guangdong Hongyuan still got a 51-45 lead before the end of the half.
In the third quarter, the two teams each played a half-quarter of good balls, the first half of the Guangdong Hongyuan once opened the point difference, and the second half of the Shandong team narrowed the point difference to 6 points.
In the fourth quarter of the game, Shandong played a very good performance after Yi Jianlian came off, Chen Peidong and others' consecutive three points helped Shandong team chase 95-95, Tao Hanlin fouled after receiving the ball at this time, not only ate fouls but also accumulated 6 fouls and was punished.
Gironwater's deduction won the initiative for Shandong Expressway, Zhou Peng won the free throw opportunity after 1 of 2 free throws, Gironwater made two free throws, and shandong team surpassed 2 points in the last 18.3 seconds, but Zhou Peng's free throw brought the game into extra time.
Zhao Rui's three-pointer into overtime once extended Guangdong Hongyuan's lead to 5 points, but Gao Shiyan's 3-point salute was big enough, and Giron Water's free throw was also powerful enough, 110-110, the two teams returned to the same running line again. In the last 1.6 seconds, Gillenwater's ultra-far three-point shot was fouled, And Gironwater deliberately missed the last penalty to waste time, but the referee gave 0.8 seconds, Zhao Rui's serve directly threw out of the bottom line The game finally ended, Shandong high-speed overtime won 111-110, ranking to 11th after Shandong will play against Shenzhen New Century.