In the CBA focus battle on December 1, the Liaoning men's basketball team and Beijing Enterprises had a fierce showdown.
In this game, the Liaoning team once fell into a passive situation, and the Beijing Control team even led by a huge gap of 15 points at one point, and some strange penalties from the referee made the game full of laughter.
Although Beijing Beikong kept a low profile before the game and humbly said that they would challenge the Liaoning men's basketball team as a weakling, they actually had a clear study of the Liaoning team.
In addition, the captain of Liaoning has not played an official game for a long time, and the overall feel and state of the team are not ideal, and the Beijing Control team has always had an advantage. In the first quarter of the game, Beijing Control ended with a huge lead of 37:24 with its excellent performance, leading by 13 points at one point, and leading 67:58 in the first half.
At that time, except for foreign aid Fergus, who contributed 12 points, the other players of the Liaoning team failed to score more than 5 points. Ferg scored an impressive 12 points in just 7 minutes and 54 seconds, but it was clear that he alone would not be able to sustain the entire game.
In addition, the Liaoning team also faced the dilemma that Moreland could not play due to the flu, and as a single foreign aid team, the lack of scoring support from other players made Fogg's 50 points like a desperate bet.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Liu Xiaoyu, a substitute for the Beijing Control team, quickly hit a three-pointer to extend the lead to 44:29.
Seeing that the Liaoning team was about to collapse, Han Dejun stepped forward and narrowed the gap to 10 points in one fell swoop by making two fouls, Fu Hao's strong layup and Zhao Jiwei's three-point shot.
However, then the Liaoning team's offense stalled again, and Thompson and Liu Xiaoyu hit key shots one after another, making the Beijing Control team extend their lead again, and the outside firepower was even more amazing, with 8 of 14 three-pointers.
At this critical moment, the only life-sustaining weapon of the Liaoning men's basketball team became Kyle Forg. He scored 12 points in the first quarter, and in the second quarter, he quickly ignited four consecutive three-pointers to lead the Liaoning team to narrow the gap to 56:62.
However, just as Fergus hit two three-pointers to chase the deficit to six points, a funny drama played out. While greeting his old teammate Zhang Fan, Fogg was misunderstood by the referee as provoking the opponent and actually blew a technical foul.
The referee's strange decision severely affected the pace of the game, but Fogg still performed well in the first half, scoring 26 points and five rebounds on 8-of-14 shooting and 6-of-7 three-pointers.
Correspondingly, Zhang Fan of the Beijing Control team contributed 16 points, and Thompson even scored 15 points when facing his old club.
Since the beginning of this season, the Liaoning men's basketball team has rarely fallen behind at the beginning, and this time they are obviously facing a big crisis. Coupled with the fact that the referee was obviously partial to the Beijing Control team at home, the difficult counterattack of the Liaoning team became more tortuous.