On the evening of April 24, Beijing time, the CBA playoffs continued, and the Xinjiang men's basketball team, which had a 2-0 lead, challenged the Guangzhou men's basketball team away. Judging from the first two rounds, the disparity in strength between the two sides is huge, and the Xinjiang team should have the ability to sweep the opponent in one go, but surprisingly, they were greeted with a 22-point defeat.
In the whole game, the Xinjiang men's basketball team only hit 30 shots in 80 shots, with an overall shooting rate of only 37.5%, 8 of 31 from beyond the three-point line, and the shooting rate was as low as 25.8%, and the team only scored 83 points in total, creating their lowest single-game scoring record this season. You know, during the regular season this season, they averaged 106.8 points per game, ranking fourth in the league.
From foreign aid to domestic players, the Xinjiang men's basketball team is a complete "team-wide pull".
On the outside lineup, Jones had eight points and five rebounds on 3-of-10 shooting, Wigginton had 13 points on 5-of-8 shooting, but had as many as five turnovers, and Crick had just four points on 1-of-3 shooting. The three major foreign aides scored 25 points on 9-of-21 shooting, and you must know that the opponent is only a foreign aid Brown, so he scored 37 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals.
In terms of domestic players, except for Wu Guanxi who scored 13 points and 9 rebounds in 6 of 9, there were almost no bright spots. The two major stars, Qi Lin and Abdusalam, made only 8 of 25 shots, and only 4 of 12 shots from outside the three-point line, and Zhao Rui, who returned from injury, only hit 1 of 6 shots from the outside.
Last season, because of Zhou Qi's transfer incident, the Xinjiang men's basketball team once made a fuss to withdraw from the CBA, and finally the Guangdong men's basketball team mediated from it, and the two sides were able to break up peacefully, perhaps because they were angry, proving that they can live better than you after breaking up, Xinjiang men's basketball team invested a lot this season, introducing Wu Guanxi, Li Yanzhe and other strong reinforcements, and got Zhao Rui in the Zhou Qi transaction, and introduced Jones in the foreign aid position, coupled with the growth of young players Qi Lin, Sirzati and others, they jumped from a playoff fringe team to a championship team.
During the regular season, the Xinjiang men's basketball team achieved a proud record of 41 wins and 11 losses, ranking second in the league, and they were once considered the most likely team to challenge the defending champion Liaoning men's basketball team, but from this game, their stability needs to be improved, and the performance of the players in the face of high-pressure defense is also a hidden danger.