Ding Yan Yuhang’s Shows He’s Ready for the NBA with 42 points in Opening game of CBA Season

The CBA season had started over the week end.

And on Sunday night, Shandong High Speed Golden Stars played their first home game against Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons.

Both teams had recruited quite big-name ex-NBA players for this season:Brandon Jennings and Luis Scola for Shanxi, and Ty Lawson and Donatas Motiejūnas for Shandong.

But the STAR of this game had to be DING YAN YUHANG !!!   

Ding Yan Yuhang had a pretty quiet game at the start, scoring just 10 points in 1Q, and added another 12 points for 2Q and 3Q, as in 2Q, Shandong at one point lead by 15 points, and seemed cruising to an easy victory.

But Brandon Jennings & Co. had a suden explosion in latter part of 2Q and 3Q, firing 3-pointers from all cylinders (a total of 19 3-pointers for the team), and after a 8 ~ 0 run in 4Q, they had a 30-point swing to lead by 15 points by 9 minutes in 4Q.

That was when Ding Yan Yuhang stepped up to shoulder his team and take over the game.

He started to score with various methods: fast break dunks, layups, jumpers and 3-pointers to erase the arrears, and with his 6th 3-pointer of the game (he scored 4 in 4Q), he managed to bring his team back to lead 110 ~ 107. 

But Shanxi eventually tied the game at 114 ~ 114 with 27 seconds left.

In Shandong’s next offensive poession, Ty Lawson dribbled to dry out the shot clock, and then passed the rock to Ding Yan Yuhang, who gestured to his team mates to let him do his 1-on-1.

He dribbled a bit and then scored a jumper leaving Shanxi with less than 3 seconds. 

And in Shanxi’s last offensive possession, ex Shandong 3-pointer specialist Li Jingyu was given the last-kill assignment, but Ding Yan Yuhang came out from nowhere to block his shot attempt to earn the win for Shandong.

Ding Yan Yuhang eventually finished the game scoring 42 points (i.e. contributing 20 points just in 4Q alone) with an exceptionally high FG% (18/27 FG% 6/12 3-pointer%), 6 rebounds, 1 steal and 1 block shot in 37 minutes of action.   

Ty Lawson finished with 17 points (7/17 FG% 2/7 3-pointer% 1/2 FT%), 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals, while Donatas Motiejūnas scored adouble-double of 26 points (11/19 FG% 2/3 3-pointers% 2/7 FT%)/13 rebounds.

For Shanxi Brandon Jennings scored 32 points (9/23 FG% 8/15 3-pointer% 6/7 FT%)/5 rebounds/7 assists, while Luis Scola also scored adouble-double of 19 points (8/13 FG% 1/4 3-pointer% 2/2 FT%)/14 rebounds/2 assists.

Another local player worth mentioning was Xing Zhiqiang of Shanxi. The guy must have worked hard on his 3-pointers in the summer. He scored tons of 3-pointers and scored 26 points(9/13 FG% 6/10 3-pointer% 2/3 FT%)/6 rebounds/1 assist.

 

HIGHLIGHT PLAY OF THIS GAME

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HIGHLIGHT GIF OF DING YAN YUHANG’S PLAY

The Game-Winning Jumper

The Game-Winning Block Shot