On December 28th, Beijing time, the 23rd round of the CBA regular season continued, with Guangdong team challenging Jilin team away. In this game, Jilin's main players such as Jones and Jiang Weize did not play, so the excitement of this game was much less. One of the highlights may be how Les performs in regular time.
In the first quarter, Guangdong team started with Jillenwalt scoring 8 points in a row, followed by Xu Jie scoring 4 points to lead 12-2 by 10 points; then Guangdong team's focus on both offense and defense dropped, with many unnecessary turnovers on the offensive end; on the defensive end, they gave Jilin many opportunities to attack the basket, fortunately, Jillenwalt scored 18 points in the first quarter with hot shooting, and Guangdong team led 25-22 by 3 points at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Guangdong started full-court leading defense and double-teaming the ball handler, causing Jilin to make consecutive mistakes, and Guangdong made consecutive defensive counterattacks to open up the point difference to double digits; after Jilin narrowed the point difference slightly, Guangdong immediately launched a wave of 16-2 to open up the point difference to 21 points. In the final stage, Bazley first made consecutive blocks, followed by a dunk, and the first half ended with Guangdong leading 63-39 by 24 points.
At the beginning of the third quarter, Xu Jie, Du Runwang, Huang Rongqi, Morland, and Bazley all scored, and Guangdong team again launched a wave of 16-4 in half a quarter to lead 79-43 by 36 points; then, Guangdong team played smoother and smoother, Bazley even made a super long three-pointer to once open up the point difference to more than 40 points, and the third quarter ended with Guangdong leading 90-52 by 38 points.
In the fourth quarter, the two teams entered training time, with Guangdong directly sending out an all-Chinese lineup of Zhang Wenyi, Zhang Haojia, Wang Shaojie, Zhang Hao, and Xu Xin, and Jilin also had an all-Chinese lineup, then it was a game of chicken pecking each other, with both teams scoring very low in this quarter, and Guangdong finally won Jilin 106-65.
Individually, Jillenwalt scored 22 points, 9 rebounds, and 2 assists; Huang Rongqi scored 20 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, and 2 steals; Xu Jie scored 13 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 steals; Morland scored 4 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal, and 5 blocks; Bazley scored 18 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, and 2 steals.
Of course, Du Feng's personnel decisions were questioned again in this game, the reason being that he used an all-Chinese lineup in the fourth quarter without giving the team's small foreign aid Les the opportunity to play. Les only played for 1 minute and 38 seconds in the whole game, with only 1 foul and no other data.