2024-01-10 22:04 United Daily News reporter Liu Zhaoyu/New Taipei Instant Report
The New Taipei Kings faced the visiting B League powerhouse Ryukyu Golden Kings at home today, staged a “battle of two kings.” In the end, the Kings relied on Jeremy Lin’s super three-pointer in the last 26 seconds of the game to lay the foundation for victory. The good performance also won the Golden Kings coach He praised the players, but Jeremy Lin emphasized that the Kings won this game by relying on their defense and rebounding advantages, and he also expected the team to perform better after regaining its outside touch.
The Kings, who have won three consecutive victories in the Eastern Super League group stage, will face the defending champion Golden Kings of the B League at home today. Although the Golden Kings only use Shan Yang to fight in this game, they still pose a considerable threat to the Kings. Especially on the defensive end, the Kings took 33 three-pointers and only hit 4. However, all 4 of them were made in the second half of the game, including Jeremy Lin’s decisive three-pointer with 26 seconds remaining, which helped the Kings finally win. A narrow victory of 4 points.
Despite winning 4 consecutive victories in the group stage and securing a ticket to the semi-finals, Kings head coach Ryan said it was too bad when talking about the team’s recent sluggish outside shots. However, he also believed that almost all of the Kings’ shots today were empty shots. In this case, they just can’t score goals. When the players slowly regain their touch, the situation will definitely get better and better.
Jeremy Lin also emphasized that the problem of the team’s current inability to score definitely does not lie with the coach, team system or tactics. Players must take full responsibility and must find ways to score goals when the tactics leave gaps. “Today is really the day.” It was not an easy game. Although we only scored 67 points, we beat our opponents by 17 rebounds. We won this game by relying on defense. Maybe everyone will talk about the last ball, but a 40-minute game is definitely not. It will be the last ball, especially today Q (Davis) gave us a lot of help from the bench.”
When asked about his current ankle injury, Jeremy Lin also admitted that it is indeed quite painful and uncomfortable, which also makes it unclear whether he can participate in Friday’s game against the Lions. “I will treat it again when I go back tonight, and I will do it again tomorrow.” Look at the situation.”
Although the Golden Kings lost today, head coach Oketani Dai and Imamura Yoshita, who scored 13 points, both said frankly that they hope to perform better after returning to the home court. When talking about Jeremy Lin’s wonderful performance, both of them also said High praise was given. Among them, Oketani Dai believed that Jeremy Lin played with strong confidence at all times and also showed his strong mentality and resilience. In this game, he originally hoped that all the players on the team would have the opportunity to face off against Jeremy Lin. , and learn from it.
Jeremy Lin played through an ankle injury and scored the winning three-pointer.Photo/Provided by New Taipei Kings Basketball New Taipei Kings Jeremy Lin Davis Lions
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