[NBL] Taurus Team Loses in Overtime to Wuhan Kunpeng by 5 Points

[Sports News]The Hong Kong Golden Bulls returned to their home court at Southorn Stadium on Friday night (28th) to face Wuhan Kunpeng in the National Men’s Basketball League (NBL). On Sunday (30th) and next Wednesday (August 2nd), the Taurus team will visit Guangxi Weizhuang and Henan Credit Store Laojiu successively.

The Hong Kong Golden Bulls ranked sixth with 4 wins and 6 losses before the game, while the visiting team ranked last with 2 wins and 8 losses. Although there is a gap in the rankings between the two sides, the battle is quite tight. For the Taurus team, foreign aid Rasheed Sulaimon will cooperate with Zhang Hao, Bi Jiguang, Liang Zhaohua and captain Sun Weibo in the first round. With leading scorer Maurice Kemp out due to injury, the rest of the team has to share the offense. Hong Kong player Liang Zhaohua made two successful breakthroughs and walked the basket to score 4 points in a row. After that, he instigated a fast break and passed to Zhang Hao to score. With Sulaimeng’s 3-pointer, the Taurus team scored 9:0 at the beginning of the wave. offensive. The visiting team then stood firm and the situation began to close. In the end, the Taurus team led the first quarter with 20:17, and 6 players in the team scored.

Entering the second quarter, Sulaimen scored 5 points alone, pulling the score to 25:17. After that, the visiting team’s two foreign aids, Smith and Knight III, began to exert their strength, frequently attacking inside and outside, and once narrowed the score to 28:29, a difference of one point. Suleimon and Samuel DEGUARA stepped forward and scored 11 and 7 points respectively in this quarter, allowing the Taurus to finish the first half with a 43:41 lead.

After changing sides, the situation reversed. Smith led a 10:0 offensive, leading the score 51:43, leading by 10 points in the third quarter. The trailing Taurus team was cheered by the home fans, chasing one point after another. Dracula’s under-the-basket tip-up and Liang Zhaohua’s two free throws made another 74:73 lead. However, Wuhan Kunpeng made a 3-pointer at the buzzer from Knight III, leading the Taurus 73:70 in the third quarter. The fourth quarter entered a fever pitch, the two sides had mutual offense and defense, and exchanged leading positions many times. In the last minute of the battle, Wuhan Kunpeng led 92:89, but Bi Jiguang of the Taurus team withstood the pressure and scored a key 3-pointer to tie. After that, the two armies each had an offensive opportunity, but unfortunately they failed to convert into goals. In the end, the game had to be overtime to win the game.

In the early stage of overtime, the visiting team played a 6-0 offensive with Knight III’s 2 goals and Hou Tianyi’s goal. But the team did not give up, and was only 3 points behind at the last moment of the battle. Unfortunately, Su Leimeng failed to hit the last blow. In the end, the Taurus lost 98:103. The Taurus team has 4 players scoring in double digits in this battle. Among them, two foreign aids, Suleimon and Dracula, both scored “double figures”, with 20 points and 13 rebounds and 22 points and 12 rebounds respectively.

After the game, Taurus head coach Liu Tie said: “I think the players performed very positively and fought hard enough. Everyone also successfully understood the team’s intentions and style of play and performed very well. For overtime, the team’s key goal The handling is not perfect, the players need to be more confident. At the same time, the team relied too much on Suleimon and Dracula, which led to problems in this game.”

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2023-07-28 15:14:10

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