China News Service, Hangzhou, February 4th (Guo Tianqi) On the 3rd, in the 38th round of the 2023-2024 Chinese Men's Professional Basketball League (CBA) regular season, two teams from Zhejiang - Zhejiang Team and Ningbo Team ushered in a match. It was a confrontation with huge disparity in strength. However, in the first half, the Ningbo team did not allow the Zhejiang team to take any advantage. However, the Zhejiang team relied on its excellent counterattack ability to reverse the situation many times in the second half, and finally defeated the opponent 120:106 and won the team. Victory in the last home game of the year. In this campaign, Ningbo team Arslan contributed a strong performance at the foreign aid level. He was in "full" form, scored multiple unanswered goals, and scored a game-high double-double of 33 points and 12 assists.
The picture shows the score of this game. Screenshot of CBA official website
As a young team, the Ningbo team has not played in the CBA for a long time. Historically, the Ningbo team has only played against the Zhejiang team 6 times. The experienced and stronger Zhejiang team has won all the games, and in many games The score difference reached more than 30 points. Judging from the head-to-head record, the Zhejiang team has an absolute advantage.
Recently, the Zhejiang team has defeated three strong teams in Tianjin, Beijing, and Qingdao and achieved three consecutive victories. In the last round of the game against Qingdao, Zhejiang "Tower" Yu Jiahao performed well on both offense and defense, scoring all the goals in the team's favor. A high of 26 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists. In addition, the Zhejiang team cooperated with each other tacitly in this game and made more achievements. They used strong defense to make the Qingdao team make mistakes one after another. In the absence of the player at position 4, the Zhejiang team still showed outstanding performance. A strong sense of oppression and lineup thickness.
The Zhejiang team's opponent Ningbo team in this campaign has suffered 13 consecutive losses and ranks at the bottom of the standings. Arslan, known as the "four-character foreign aid" in the Ningbo team, has been in hot form recently and has scored in double figures in 6 consecutive games. In the game against the Nanjing team, Arslan scored 42 points, 10 rebounds and 10 rebounds. With a huge triple-double in assists, he became the first domestic defender in CBA history to score 40+ triple-doubles in a single game.
This time the two teams played against each other. At the beginning of the game, the Zhejiang team took the lead in showing off its power, while the Ningbo team did not fall behind with the cooperation of Arslan and foreign aid Curry. With Zhao Jianshu's three-pointer, the Ningbo team took the lead. The Zhejiang team immediately recovered the score with a 2+1; then, the situation on the court fell into a stalemate. Yu Jiahao performed a two-handed slam dunk, and Arslan made an outside shot, hitting all 4 shots to stop the Zhejiang team; after returning from the timeout, the Zhejiang team Taking advantage of the transition between offense and defense, they soon took the lead. Sun Haomiao hit two three-pointers in succession, and Cheng Shuipeng then hit three points to help the Zhejiang team continue to expand the score. At the end of the first quarter, the Zhejiang team entered the second quarter with an 8-point advantage.
In the second quarter, the Ningbo team actively competed for rebounds at the beginning, and the team also relied on tacit cooperation to narrow the point difference to 2 points. In addition to free throws, the Zhejiang team briefly "misfired" in the sports battle; then the Zhejiang team replaced foreign aid Perry Lien. After scoring 5 points, there was a tendency to widen the point difference; however, Arslan and Curry succeeded on the outside one after another, helping the Ningbo team narrow the point difference. Then, Arslan scored a three-pointer to help the team overtake the score again; at the quarter At the end, Perry hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer, and Zhejiang team led 61:59 in the first half.
Easy side to fight again, Cheng Shuipeng and Lu Wenbo hit three-pointers one after another, Yu Jiahao scored with a hook, Zhejiang team played an 8:0 climax, Ningbo team also responded with 4 points, and then Lu Wenbo scored another from the bottom corner After recording a three-pointer, Yu Jiahao hit the board and scored again, and the Zhejiang team expanded the point difference to double digits; then, the Zhejiang team made more points and tried to continue to expand its advantage, but Arslan was in "full" form and dominated the Ningbo team's offense. The Ningbo team miraculously recovered the point difference to single digits and assisted Xu Yuzhuo to hit a three-pointer. The Zhejiang team then scored 4 points and continued to lead at 90:85.
In the last quarter, the two sides alternately increased points. After half a quarter, the point difference between the two teams remained at 5 points. Then, the Zhejiang team’s foreign aid Carrick Jones connected the whole court. The Zhejiang team’s steals also became stronger, and the point difference began to widen; At the end of the quarter, the head coach of the Ningbo team, Atijiang, replaced Arslan. The Ningbo team, which had lost its strongest "firepower", was limited in its offense. The Zhejiang team became more and more courageous as they fought, and the game lost suspense. In the end, the Zhejiang team won 120:106. Defeated the Ningbo team.
In this game, Zhejiang team's Cheng Shuipeng scored a team-high 27 points, 6 rebounds and 9 assists, and Ningbo team's Arslan scored a game-high 33 points and 12 assists. After this campaign, the Zhejiang team's home record has reached 19 wins and 1 loss, and the "devil's home court" is worthy of its name. (over)