The Guangdong Southern Tigers beat the Shanghai Sharks 115-92 in Game 3 of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) first-round playoffs in the house in Dongguan, south Chinas Guangdong Province, on Friday, winning the series 2-1 and advancing to the quarterfinals.The result enabled Guangdong to preserve their record of never missing out on a quarterfinal in the CBA postseason.The hosts saw 4 of their gamers score double-digit points, consisting of Xu Jie, Hu Mingxuan and Darius Bazley who all contributed at least 20.
Xu also delivered 11 assists.Having dealt with a win-or-go-home scenario, Shanghai began the very first quarter with a 21-13 lead, however it did not last long.
Bazley, Hu and Ren drove a 11-0 run for Guangdong to lead 37-26 when the quarter ended.Xu and Bazley continued to abuse the challengers defense in the 2nd quarter by both charging the rim and firing from downtown, increasing Guangdongs benefit to 19 points at 59-40.
Though Kenneth Lofton Jr.
and Huang Rongyi worked hard to try to cut Shanghais deficit, Rens buzzer-beating two-point jumper put the home team ahead 70-53 in the very first half.The game grew more physical in the third quarter.
Ren was ejected for throwing a punch towards Wang Zhelin from behind.
Wang then left the contest later on with an injury.Without Wang, Shanghai stopped working to make any good resurgence effort in the last quarter.
Guangdong secured a big win in your home and will face the Shanxi Loongs next.The CBA postseason quarterfinals matchups are as follows: Liaoning Flying Leopards vs.
Xinjiang Flying TigersGuangsha Lions vs.
Qingdao EaglesBeijing Ducks vs.
Beikong Royal FightersShanxi Loongs vs.
Guangdong Southern Tigers