China News Agency, Beijing, July 16-The 16th night of the second stage of the CBA rematch ushered in a battle of focus. The Guangdong team, which has won the regular season championship in advance, defeated the "strongest all-Chinese class" Zhejiang Guangsha team 104:97, and tied the 26-game winning streak with the longest consecutive streak in the CBA single season.
In another game that day, the Beijing Shougang team defeated the Shenzhen team 90:81 and returned to the third place in the standings. Jeremy Lin scored a game-high 29 points and had 4 rebounds and 1 assist.
The longest winning streak in a single CBA season was previously created by the Guangdong team in the 2014-2015 season. It is worth mentioning that the Zhejiang Guangsha team played the role of "terminator" in the 38th round of the CBA regular season on February 1, 2015. The Guangsha team at home played 125:119 Beat the Guangdong team and set the latter's winning streak to 26 games.
Yi Jianlian, who had just come back for the last half of a month due to injury, continued his debut. At the beginning of the game, the Guangdong team was strongly challenged and was unable to pull the score away. After leading the first quarter with a 32:25 lead, the first half also had a slight advantage of only 6 points (55:49). Yi Jianlian scored 13 points and 6 rebounds in the half, the highest in the team.
In the third quarter, the Guangdong team, with its talents and constant rotation, expanded the score gap to double digits (86:75). However, in the fourth quarter, the Guangsha team narrowed the gap to 1 point (91:92) by virtue of consecutive long shots. Although Guangsha did not have the chance to become the terminator of the Guangdong team's winning streak again because of eagerness to win and too many mistakes, in the face of the defending champion with strong strength and momentum, Guangsha kept the suspense of victory and defeat to the end. Yu title of "the strongest all-Chinese class".
In this campaign, Yi Jianlian played 16 minutes and scored 16 points and 12 rebounds. Guangdong team's foreign aid Wei Mus scored a game-high 25 points.
On the 16th, the Guangdong team and the Xinjiang team remained in the top two positions. Although the Beijing Shougang team and the Zhejiang Guangsha team have the same wins, they ranked third in one game and the Guangsha team ranked fourth. Liaoning team, Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank team and Beijing Beikong team, all with 27 wins and 14 losses, ranked 5-7.
On the 20th, the Guangdong team will face the Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank team that brought the biggest surprise in the first stage. Whether the Guangdong team can refresh its longest winning streak in a single season will be tested again. This season, the Guangdong team has the last three regular season games remaining. If it can win all the games, it will expand the CBA single-season longest winning streak to 29 games. (Finish)