Beijing time on March 8, Shougang men's basketball team ushered in a showdown with the Shandong men's basketball team, as the only team with four foreign aid this season, Shougang before today's game, in the third stage has not tasted defeat, originally thought that today can continue their own winning streak pace, did not think but dropped the chain, in the first quarter by Shandong hit a 31-17 shockwave, even after chasing points, but still failed to fill the first quarter of the big pit, 103-112 defeat to Shandong, suffered the first defeat of the third stage. Although Jeremy Lin got the opportunity to start the game, he was completely abandoned by Yannis after only 5 minutes of playing, during which he shot 1 shot, did not score a point, only got 1 rebound and 1 assist, and was the only player in the Shougang team to score an egg.
Jeremy Lin's downturn also allowed Yannis to reuse another small foreign aid Gibson in this game, this campaign Gibson also played an efficient offensive performance, in the 27 minutes of the bench, 17 shots 8 won 32 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, plus or minus came to the team's highest +17, but in the end still failed to stage the "single riding savior" plot, can only watch himself in this game to become the "empty cut group leader".
Gibson's rampage also highlights that Jeremy Lin's state is really bad, in fact, in the second stage, Jeremy Lin has several games with less than double digits, and even swallowed the first "0-point game" of the season in the battle with Guangsha, and in the second stage, this window period Jeremy Lin also got enough time to rest, but in terms of the overall performance of the third stage, Jeremy Lin still did not find his own competitive state, according to relevant statistics, In the third stage, Jeremy Lin played only 15.1 minutes, averaging 7.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2 assists per game, shooting as low as 30% from three-point range and only a pitiful 50% from the free throw line.
Due to the return of big foreign aid Hamilton in the third stage, coupled with Gibson also has a good "microwave" attribute (Brown is still injured), which also makes Jeremy Lin in Shougang's position is very embarrassing, even if the third stage of the opening game against Xinjiang, even if Lin Jeremy scored the highest 12 points in the third stage, but that game domestic backcourt Fang Shuo also cut 15 points and 3 assists, and the offensive efficiency is higher than That Jeremy Lin (Fang Shuo 8 in 5, Lin Jeremy 12 in 5). And today's game with Shandong, Jeremy Lin only played for a few minutes in the first quarter, he was directly refrigerated by Yannis, went to the sidelines and stepped on a bicycle, took the highest salary of the whole team, but became a VIP spectator under the field, Jeremy Lin's situation, really made people sigh.
Shougang this season has become the only team in the CBA with four foreign aides, and Jeremy Lin is the one with the highest salary of these 4 foreign aides, before the media reported that even if Jeremy Lin has cut his salary sharply this season, but the salary is still around 2 million US dollars (before tax), with the highest salary of the whole team, but played the worst performance among the four foreign aides, I have to say that Jeremy Lin is indeed a little sorry for his salary, and even some can't stand his foreign aid identity.
As of now, Shougang is temporarily in the seventh place in the league with a record of 20 wins and 12 losses, and there is a good chance that it can be re-entered the playoffs this season, and according to Jeremy Lin's current state, it is not ruled out that Yannis may abandon it in the playoffs, thus reusing the two small additions of Brown and Gibson.