In the third game of the quarterfinals, although Zhejiang Guangsha returned to its home stadium, it may be difficult for the team to avoid being swept after Hu Jinqiu's injury on the inside. Surprisingly, in the first half, when the Guangsha team was up to 23 points behind, the style of painting in the third quarter changed abruptly, Zhou Qi was in the process of a rebounding scramble, suddenly became emotional and swung his elbow to hit Li Jinxiao's face, and the referee teacher directly announced that Zhou Qi was expelled for a foul after watching the video. This also became the turning point of the game, and in the end, the Guangsha team relied on Zhao Yanhao's excellent play in the final quarter, and threw an outside three-pointer that almost killed the game in the last 22 seconds, and finally pulled back a game at home with a narrow 7-point advantage of 109:102.
In fact, after the injury of Hu Jinqiu, the core of the Guangsha team, the overall mood of the team seems to be very low, although it is a home game, the whole team does not seem to show surging passion, and is still playing very dull. In particular, Sun Minghui, who is the core of the team's back line, seems to be very unstable, and he is in danger of breaking out again in the process of being constantly forced by the opponent at the beginning. Although he finally controlled his emotions under the persuasion of his teammates, at the end of the first half, Sun Minghui had already suffered 4 fouls, which was not a good thing for the Guangsha team. After all, the team has been falling behind. At the end of the first quarter, the Guangsha team was already 11 points behind the Guangdong team at 20:31, and the Guangsha team was 29:52 behind the Guangdong team by as many as 23 points at 5 minutes and 34 seconds in the second quarter. At this time, Sun Minghui's foul crisis made it more difficult for Wang Bo to guide Wang Bo's selection of personnel on the guard line, although Wang Bo changed the permission of the 12-man squad guard line to Wang Xinrui in this battle, but in the case of such a big score gap, Wang Bo did not dare to easily send Wang Xinrui on the field.
In fact, in the second quarter of the game, the whole team of the Guangsha team seemed to be a little lacking in confidence, although the Guangsha team was only 11 points behind the Guangdong team at the end of the first quarter. However, due to the difficulty of opening up the situation with an inside breakthrough, the outside three points seem to be lost, which is very passive for the Guangsha team that is lagging behind. But in this quarter, I didn't expect Li Jinxiao, who was often hidden in the regular season, to become the key man for the team, and although he appeared as a substitute for the team in the second quarter, Li Jinxiao's efficiency in this section was very high. Because in the first 3 minutes of the second quarter, the Guangsha team was beaten by Guangdong with a small climax of 9:2, and the Guangsha team, which was already behind, became more anxious at this time. Sun Minghui was not only prevented by the opponent, but also plagued by fouls, and small foreign players Weatherspoon and Floyd could not bring much help to the team. If it weren't for Li Jinxiao's excellent performance in the second quarter, I'm afraid the end of the second quarter of the Guangsha team would have become garbage time. In this quarter, Li Jinxiao used his outside three-point shooting ability and basket breakthrough to maintain an efficient offense and help the Guangsha team bite the score.
Li Jinxiao scored 15 points in a single quarter, which is the main reason why the Guangsha team was not opened up too much in the end. Finally, at the end of the first half, the Guangsha team turned the score into 45:58, only 13 points behind the Guangdong team, which also laid a solid foundation for the Guangsha team to erase the score gap in the third quarter and finally turn the situation around. In fact, for the Guangdong team, as long as they play steadily and maintain their offensive and defensive rhythm, it is unlikely that they will be reversed by the Guangsha team in the second half, after all, the team's core Sun Minghui is trapped in a foul crisis and has to rest early. The back line only relied on Zhu Junlong and Zhao Yanhao to transition the ball, which was the best time for the Guangdong team to open up the score gap again. But when the game reached 7 minutes and 17 seconds, when Li Jinxiao and Zhou Qi were competing for rebounds, Zhou Qi's obvious elbow swing was caught by the referee, and Zhou Qi was directly punished for a physical foul. After watching the video back, the referee thought that Zhou Qi had deliberately hurt people and was directly expelled from the game, which also became a turning point that changed the trend of the game.
You must know that the score of the two teams at this time is 55:62, and the Guangsha team is only 7 points behind, which also allows the team to see the dawn of completing the big reversal again. In fact, for the Guangdong team, even if Zhou Qi leaves the team, the inside line of the team still does not lose to the Guangsha team, after all, Hu Jinqiu is also absent from the game, and the team still has hope to complete the sweep. It may be that the player's mood was affected to a certain extent, and in the next 4 minutes, Weems, Jordan Bell and Ren Junfei made consecutive mistakes to create a chance for the Guangsha team to overtake the score, and after completing the overtake in the last few minutes before the end of the third quarter, this advantage was brought to the final quarter. Although the Guangsha team is in the lead, but the team wants to win the game too much, in fact, the pressure of the whole team is still very high, once the Guangdong team relaxes and plays their own game rhythm, the team still has the hope of completing the overtake again and finally completing the sweep. It's a pity that while the Guangdong team is nervous in the Guangsha team, the team that is behind in their score seems to be in a nervous mood. After losing the advantage on the inside, the entire outside line seems to have been completely lost.
This made the mentality of the Guangsha team players completely relaxed, although Sun Minghui and Zhao Yanhao made mistakes one after another at critical moments, but the team's outside line slowly shot away. Zhao Jiaren and Zhao Yanhao teamed up to contribute 6 three-pointers in the final quarter of the game, especially Zhao Yanhao made 4 three-pointers alone, which can be said to have kept the Guangsha team leading in the final quarter with the strength of one person. Especially in the last 1 and a half minutes, Zhao Yanhao scored 3 three-pointers in a row, which was almost the key shot that killed the game. In the last 1 minute and 44 seconds, the two teams were tied 100:100, and the victory or defeat was actually in the last crucial minute, but the veteran of the Guangsha team at this time showed the confidence and role of playing against the wind. Zhao Yanhao made almost every shot in the last 1 minute or so very difficult, but he chose to make a bold shot without hesitation, and was more willing to take the responsibility for the team's failure. Although after the first three-point shot, the team led the Guangdong team by 3 points, but you must know that the Guangdong team's outside shooting rate in this game is also very high, and it is possible to surpass it at any time.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yanhao scored 2 three-pointers in succession in the last 50 seconds, which basically completely extinguished the spark of the Guangdong team. Although this game is a 23-point reversal completed by the whole team, it has to be said that without the 44 points scored by Li Jinxiao and Zhao Yanhao, and it is the outstanding performance of the players who were almost hidden in the regular season, it may be difficult for the Guangsha team to reverse the situation even if Zhou Qi leaves.