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The Hong Kong Golden Bulls Secure Playoff Spot with Narrow Victory over Wuhan Kunpeng

[Sports News]The Hong Kong Golden Bulls won the last round of the regular season of the National Men’s Basketball League (NBL) held in the gymnasium of Wuhan Institute of Physical Education on Sunday night (27th), narrowly beating Wuhan Kunpeng 101:99 and finishing eighth. Finish the regular season and claim the last berth in the playoffs. There are a total of 8 teams participating in the NBL playoffs. The first round of the competition will be 3 games and 2 wins. The Hong Kong Golden Bulls will challenge the “No. 1 brother” Anhui Wenyi in the league rankings.

The Hong Kong Golden Bulls, which ranked 10th in the league standings before the game, were on par with Wuhan Kunpeng. Both sides recorded 8 wins and 13 losses. When the Taurus team played against their opponents at home at the end of July, the two teams had to play to overtime. In the end, the Taurus lost 98:103. This game is a life-and-death battle for the Taurus team to enter the playoffs.

The Taurus team sent Maurice Kemp tonight to join Bi Jiguang, Chen Yusheng, Yu Bolin and Sun Wei as the main draft. As soon as the game started, the Taurus, with their excellent defense, caused the opponent to make frequent mistakes and once led by 8:2. However, with the home team chasing hard, the two sides drew twice. The Taurus then replaced Wayne Selden Jr., a new aid who had played in the NBA for 6 seasons. He scored 7 points in just 4 minutes of the first quarter, assisting the Taurus to win 21:19. Temporarily leading in the first quarter. At the beginning of the second quarter, the two teams were at a stalemate, but the Wuhan team soon overtook the former visiting team with consecutive points scored by foreign aid Pierre Jackson and local player Su Hao, and then gradually widened the score to a gap of up to 12 points. The Taurus team had a bad hand and a poor shooting percentage. In the end, they trailed their opponents 42:52 at halftime.

After changing sides, the home team rained three-pointers and once left the Taurus team by 16 points, leading 67:51. With Yang Ruiqi’s several fast-break breakthroughs and Kemp’s 15 points in a single quarter, the Taurus chased the score to 73:78 and finished the third quarter. In the last quarter of the game, although Wuhan opened the score to 81:73 with Su Hao’s three-pointer, the Taurus team worked hard. Kemp scored 7 points, and with Sun Wei’s goal, they played a period of 9: 3’s offensive, leading the former home team 82:81. After that, the game was very fierce. The two sides exchanged leading positions many times. Until the last 44 seconds of the game, the Hong Kong Golden Bulls were still 1 point behind the home team 98:99. With a free throw, the Taurus finally won the game and qualified for the playoffs 101:99.

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2023-08-27 16:38:51

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