On May 20, Beijing time, Liaoning was overtaken by Xinjiang many times in the final quarter when it led by up to 18 points, but it still narrowly defeated Xinjiang 98-91 in the end, expanding the total score to 3-0 to win the match point. In addition to Fogg's 34 points and bravery, Zhao Jiwei scored 16 points, 9 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 steals in 6 of 13, and was also an indispensable contributor to Liaoning's victory.
It is worth mentioning that Zhao Jiwei created a playoff career, performing at least 15+9+9 in a single game for the first time, which was also his best game in the finals this year.
As the MVP winner of the finals in the past two years, Zhao Jiwei's performance in the past two finals can only be said to be "decent", and he has not been able to reach the level of competing for the MVP of the finals. After the first two games, Zhao Jiwei only ranked fourth in the team's FMVP rating, inferior to Fogg, Fu Hao and Han Dejun.
Now in the finals G3 game, Zhao Jiwei ushered in a rebound performance, he played 41 minutes and 01 seconds in the team's second highest game, contributing 13 of 6 to 16 points, including 2 of 6 three-pointers and 2 of 2 free throws, scoring 16 points is also the second highest on the team, second only to Ferg with 34 points.
More critically, Zhao Jiwei also had 9 rebounds and 9 assists, plus 3 steals, and his rebounds were tied for the highest in the game, the highest in assists, and the highest in steals on the team. Zhao Jiwei used an all-round performance of offense, passing and defense to help Liaoning win the thrilling game, and refused to be completed by Xinjiang to complete an 18-point reversal.
In an interview after the game, Zhao Jiwei talked about the narrow victory in this game but still believed that today's game was relatively smooth, and also pointed out that the Xinjiang team was too young and wanted to win too much, and it was not good to grasp it at the last moment, and Zhao Jiwei praised Fogg's performance in the last quarter was very important.