87-73, Liaoning once again defeated Guangsha, leading 3-0 on aggregate, only one win away from sweeping the opponent and winning the championship. On April 26, Beijing time, the CBA Finals will usher in the G4 battle, once Liaoning defeats the opponent, they will get the second crown in team history. This is also the first crown of the 82-year-old coach Jiang Xingquan's CBA career, and he has waited for 27 years for this day. With 2 days and 1 win, Jiang Xingquan will draw a perfect end to his basketball career.
As the greatest head coach in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team, Jiang Xingquan enjoys a high reputation in the Chinese basketball world and the CBA. However, in the CBA League, Jiang Xingquan was unfortunate, and the bayi team and Guangdong team that met the peak of his coaching career were hopeless for repeated impacts on the championship. Especially in 2009-2011, leading the Xinjiang team to lose to the Guangdong team for three consecutive times has also become an eternal pain in Jiang Xingquan's heart.
After joining Liaoning last season, Jiang Xingquan was once expected to realize his dream of winning the championship. Unfortunately, in the finals last season, Liaoning lost to Guangdong in a good situation, and Jiang Xingquan also lost the opportunity to win. And this time, the 82-year-old coach is no longer willing to miss this opportunity.
After the playoffs began, they swept Shanxi and Guangdong successively, facing Guangsha in the finals, and after defeating the opponent in the first 2 sets, Liaoning continued to work hard to take a 3-0 lead. In CBA history, there is no precedent for a 3-0 lead being reversed in a seven-game, four-win game. In other words, the Liaoning team's championship is stable.
In fact, after defeating Guangsha in the last game, when the team took a 2-0 lead, the camera also intentionally gave Jiang Xingquan a close-up. Jiang Xingquan, who was 82 years old at the time, was already happy. After defeating the opponent in the third game, the Liaoning team undoubtedly gave Jiang Xingquan a shot of tonic, and this time, the championship was not suspenseful.