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Guangdong beat Beijing to take one game back in CBA Semifinals

Xinhua, March 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

Emmanuel Mudiay and Zhou Peng both scored team-leading 24 points as Guangdong upset defending champions Beijing 110-99 at the semifinals of Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) here on Sunday.

Despite the defeat, Beijing still lead the best-of-five series 2-1 and one win away from their third CBA finals in four years.

Zhou Peng scored 11 points to help Guangdong lead 26-19 in the first quarter. The 25-year-old was unstoppable as he made three out of four three-point shots. Mudiay took the scoring relay for Guangdong in the second quarter having 13 points and Will Bynum added seven points to see Guangdong lead 61-38 at halftime.

Beijing cut the deficit to 16 at the end of third quarter as their foreign duo Landolph Moris and Stephon Marbury combined 19 points, but they could not overturn Guangdong's momentum trailing in double figure all through the second half.

"As Mudiay rejoined us today, we shared and passed the ball more frequently than last match, so we created more chances and played a easy and comfortable match," said Guangdong coach Du Feng. Endi