May 19, 2010  Qianjiang, China

Following a long 5 hour bus ride, we arrived in Qianjiang.  We did have opportunity to have a shoot around before the game and the arena is nice.

We have been having packed houses each night and tonight was no exception- somewhere around 4,000.

The thing about a trip like this is that you play in cities where there are no pro teams so when something like this comes around it is a very big deal!

Tonight may have been the biggest “shindig” that we have had so far. They had an hour of pregame festivities with dancing, singing, and martial arts. It was a great show indeed!

The game was another tough one.  We were defeated by a score of  84-80. We just could not hit anything all night and the Bayi team went 10-13 in the fourth quarter.  But a lot of good things are happening and I will be looking forward to sharing them later.

Robby

Game 3 Recap:

Reach USA came out fast and built a 10-0 lead, but could not sustain the start as the Bayi Rockets edge the visitors 84-80 before a packed house.  The USA team held a six point lead at the end of the first but saw that dwindle to one at the half.

Bayi turned the tables and grabbed a one point lead after three periods, but the first eight minutes of the last period was all the Chinese bunch as they built up a 13 point lead.  They were 10-13 in the period and seemed to have things in had, when Reach finally began to hit some needed shots and cut the lead to only 4 with 25 seconds left, but that would be as close as they would get to Bayi before the game ended.