December 5, 2019
Another full round of games was played on Thursday as the rules changes ended up having a massive effect in a number of games. Amanda Zahui B led Shandong, but the twin towers of Kalani Brown and Han Xu helped Xinjiang overcome guard turnover issues to win 80-75, benefiting from their advantage. Beijing stayed perfect with an 85-59 win over Hubei. Jelena Dubljevic and Shanghai finally picked up their first win 68-64 over Fujian and Kelsey Bone was fantastic, but did not get enough help as the rules limited her time. Bayi suffered as a result of the rules change for the first time facing Jiangsu, which gave up a player for 3×3 national team training, allowing them to field their foreign player for the whole game against the military club as they, Xinjiang, Shanghai, Henan, and Beijing will also only have to face foreign players on the other 12 teams for three quarters. Jin Jiabao led Bayi, but Tina Charles being able to play the extra minutes prevented the visitors from coming back and they fell 80-73. Zhejiang won their first game 107-70 as they did not face a positional mismatch in foreign players with Natasha Cloud posting a triple-double and Dong Keer and Huang Jiali giving them extra scoring punch. Theresa Plaisance and Shaanxi are still looking for their first win after falling to perfect Guangdong 104-76. An entertaining game between teams looking to challenge the top teams this season saw Natasha Howard lead Inner Mongolia past Cheyenne Parker, Fang Zhuoya, and Sichuan 96-90. Stefanie Dolson and Hebei had an easy time beating Henan 86-57. Liz Cambage continues to be quite efficient and not need to play too many minutes as Shanxi stayed perfect and kept Zou Qijia and Heilongjiang winless 108-64
Shandong vs. Xinjiang 75-80 SD Zahui B 20/13r Cao 19 Li 13/9a XJ Brown 33/14r Han 20/12r Wang SY 13/11a Wang LL 12/6r/8a
Beijing vs. Hubei 85-59 BJ McCowan 17/18r Shao 15/6r Gao 10/9r Wi 10 HB Harris 12/7r Deng 10
Shanghai vs. Fujian 68-64 SH Dubljevic 21/10r Zhang 13 Zhou 12 Pan 10/7r FJ Bone 36/11r
Jiangsu vs. Bayi 80-73 JS Charles 43/18r Chen 13/7a Jin 11/9r/6a 81 Jin 21 Sun 17/7r Pan 13/12r Li 13/10r/6a
Tianjin vs. Zhejiang 70-107 TJ Lucas 17 Ma 13 Zhao 11 ZJ Dong 27 Huang 23 Wang 18/7a Cloud 15/13r/11a Zhang 12/6a
Shaanxi vs. Guangdong 76-104 SN Plaisance 21/12r Yang YH 17/9a Yang LCH 14/6r GD Dilana 18 Li 17 Yang 17 Wang 12 Powers 9
Sichuan vs. Inner Mongolia 90-96 SC Parker 28/12r Fang 27 Chen 19/6r/8a NM Howard 38/20r Han 17 Li 16 Qiu 13
Hebei vs. Henan 86-57 HE Dolson 21/6r Zhang 18 Shang 14 Feng 10/7r HA Cai 18 Zhang LG 16 Zhang R 10
Heilongjiang vs. Shanxi 64-108 HL Zou 29 Cain 8/7r SX Cambage 35/15r Fu 14/11r Wu 14/7a Yu 10
Standings:
- Shanxi 6-0
- Beijing 6-0
- Guangdong 6-0
- Xinjiang 5-1
- Bayi 4-2
- Sichuan 4-2
- Inner Mongolia 4-2
- Hebei 4-2
- Shandong 4-2
- Jiangsu 4-2
- Fujian 2-4
- Hubei 2-4
- Shanghai 1-5
- Zhejiang 1-5
- Tianjin 1-5
- Shaanxi 0-6
- Heilongjiang 0-6
- Henan 0-6