The 2020–21 Taipei Fubon Braves season was the franchise's 23rd league season, the first season of the franchise in the P. LEAGUE+ (PLG), its 2nd in the Taipei City and playing home games at Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium. They are coached by Hsu Chin-Che in his fourth year as head coach.
Preseason On September 9, 2020, former Taiwanese professional basketball player Blackie Chen announced the establishment of P. LEAGUE+ (PLG). The first game of PLG was started on December 19, 2020.
Draft The P. LEAGUE+ (PLG) did not hold a draft in its first season.
Standings
Roster
Game log Preseason + 2020 preseason game logTotal: 5-1 (Home: 3–0; Road: 2–1) Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists LocationAttendance Record 1 October 17 @Taoyuan AirApe W 75-67 Chien Wei-Ju (13) Tseng Hsiang-Chun (18) Lai Ting-En (3) Hsinchu County Stadium8,068 1-0 2 October 18 Hsinchu Lioneers W 93-81 Chien Wei-Ju (22) Tseng Hsiang-Chun (15) Joseph Lin (6) Hsinchu County Stadium7,888 2-0 3 November 7 Taoyuan Pilots W 109-71 Ihor Zaytsev (18)Mike Singletary (18) Tseng Hsiang-Chun (11) Lai Ting-En (6) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium6,459 3-0 4 November 8 @Formosa Dreamers L 87-95 Mike Singletary (20) Tseng Wen-Ting (12) Joseph Lin (5) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium6,606 3-1 5 November 21 Hsinchu Lioneers W 107-71 Ihor Zaytsev (18) Ihor Zaytsev (14) Lin Chih-Chieh (6) National Taiwan University of Sport Gymnasium4,500 4-1 6 November 22 @Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 118-83 Ihor Zaytsev (28) Ihor Zaytsev (11) Chien Wei-Ju (4)Tseng Wen-Ting (4) National Taiwan University of Sport Gymnasium4,700 5-1
Regular season + 2020–21 regular season game logTotal: 19-5 (Home: 11-1, Road: 8-4) Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location attendance Record 1 December 19 @Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 89-86 Jet Chang (34) Mike Singletary (14) Mike Singletary (4)Chien Wei-Ju (4) Changhua County Stadium5,881 1-0 2 December 27 @Hsinchu JKO Lioneers W 96-87 Charles García (28) Charles García (16) Joseph Lin (4) Hsinchu County Stadium7,236 2-0 3 January 2 Taoyuan Pilots W 93-83 Jet Chang (20) Ihor Zaytsev (16) Mike Singletary (7) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium7,000 3-0 4 January 3 Hsinchu JKO Lioneers W 96-86 Charles García (25) Ihor Zaytsev (14) Lin Chih-Chieh (8) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium7,000 4-0 5 January 10 @Hsinchu JKO Lioneers W 105-98 Charles García (23) Charles García (14) Tsai Wen-Cheng (5) Hsinchu County Stadium6,377 5-0 6 January 16 Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 115-95 Jet Chang (22) Mike Singletary (11) Ihor Zaytsev (5) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium7,000 6-0 7 January 17 Hsinchu JKO Lioneers L 102-111 Jet Chang (29) Charles García (13) Lin Chih-Chieh (9) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium6,968 6-1 8 January 23 @Hsinchu JKO Lioneers W 87-67 Chien Wei-Ju (19) Charles García (16) Jet Chang (6) Hsinchu County Stadium8,168 7-1 9 January 24 @Taoyuan Pilots W 102-79 Ihor Zaytsev (28) Ihor Zaytsev (20) Chien Wei-Ju (6) Taoyuan Arena0 8-1 10 January 30 @Taoyuan Pilots W 110-97 Joseph Lin (27) Charles García (16) Lin Chih-Chieh (7) Taoyuan Arena0 9-1 11 January 31 @Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 111-84 Mike Singletary (27) Ihor Zaytsev (18) Mike Singletary (6) Changhua County Stadium4,867 10-1 12 February 6 @Formosa Taishin Dreamers L 91-100 Charles García (28) Charles García (11) Ihor Zaytsev (4)Lin Chih-Chieh (4) Changhua County Stadium4,280 10-2 13 February 7 @Taoyuan Pilots L 82-97 Mike Singletary (28) Mike Singletary (14) Joseph Lin (8) Taoyuan Arena0 10-3 14 February 21 Hsinchu JKO Lioneers W 106-97 Jet Chang (24) Ihor Zaytsev (16) Mike Singletary (6)Jet Chang (6) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium7,000 11-3 15 February 27 @Formosa Taishin Dreamers L 89-101 Lin Chih-Chieh (27) Charles García (12) Mike Singletary (4) Changhua County Stadium4,273 11-4 16 March 1 @Hsinchu JKO Lioneers L 76-83 Jet Chang (16) Ihor Zaytsev (14) Lai Ting-En (5) Hsinchu County Stadium6,331 11-5 17 March 6 Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 114-104 Mike Singletary (30) Mike Singletary (10)Ihor Zaytsev (10) Ihor Zaytsev (5)Lin Chih-Chieh (5) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium6,888 12-5 18 March 7 Hsinchu JKO Lioneers W 109-105 Mike Singletary (34) Mike Singletary (14) Tsai Wen-Cheng (4)Chien Wei-Ju (4) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium7,000 13-5 19 March 13 Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 99-94 Mike Singletary (27) Mike Singletary (16) Chien Wei-Ju (5) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium6,430 14-5 20 March 14 Taoyuan Pilots W 124-94 Ihor Zaytsev (25) Ihor Zaytsev (9) Chou Kuei-Yu (11) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium5,993 15-5 21 March 27 Taoyuan Pilots W 109-93 Charles García (31) Charles García (16) Joseph Lin (6) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium6,238 16-5 22 March 28 Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 110-106 Ihor Zaytsev (22) Ihor Zaytsev (24) Ihor Zaytsev (6) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium7,001 17-5 23 April 5 @Taoyuan Pilots W 110-100 Mike Singletary (28) Mike Singletary (9) Mike Singletary (9) Taoyuan Arena4,537 18-5 24 April 10 Taoyuan Pilots W 117-101 Joseph Lin (19)Jet Chang (19) Charles García (10) Tseng Wen-Ting (7) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium6,482 19-5
Regular season note Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Taoyuan City Government and Taoyuan Pilots declared that the games in Taoyuan Arena would be played behind closed doors from January 16, 2021 to February 7, 2021.
Finals + 2020–21 finals game logTotal: 3-1 (home: 1-1; road: 2-0) Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists LocationAttendance Series 1 May 7 Formosa Taishin Dreamers L 109-114 Mike Singletary (23)Ihor Zaytsev (23) Ihor Zaytsev (15) Mike Singletary (8)Lin Chih-Chieh (8) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium7,000 0-1 2 May 9 Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 106-82 Mike Singletary (29) Mike Singletary (12) Mike Singletary (8) Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium7,000 1-1 3 May 13 @Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 114-110 (OT) Jet Chang (25) Mike Singletary (16) Mike Singletary (12) Changhua County StadiumNo In-Person Attendance 2-1 4 May 15 @Formosa Taishin Dreamers W 115-90 Ihor Zaytsev (25) Ihor Zaytsev (17) Mike Singletary (9)Joseph Lin (9) Changhua County StadiumNo In-Person Attendance 3-1
Finals note Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league officials declared that Game 3 and Game 4 would be played behind closed doors and Game 5 to Game 7 would be cancelled.
Player statistics Legend GP Games played MPG Minutes per game 2P% 2-point field goal percentage 3P% 3-point field goal percentage FT% Free throw percentage RPG Rebounds per game APG Assists per game SPG Steals per game BPG Blocks per game PPG Points per game Led the league<noinclude>
Regular season Player GP MPG PPG 2P% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG Lai Ting-En 23 12:12 3.78 50.00% 36.11% 100.00% 1.39 1.57 1.22 0.00 Joseph Lin 17 23:15 9.35 46.88% 34.88% 50.00% 3.35 3.59 1.47 0.18 Chien Wei-Ju 23 21:31 8.52 38.10% 35.04% 75.76% 2.83 2.17 0.61 0.04 Jet Chang 22 30:06 15.64 44.78% 34.34% 56.25% 2.50 2.86 1.77 0.09 Oscar Lin Did not play Chang Po-Wei 10 11:20 4.40 52.00% 19.23% 60.00% 1.00 0.10 0.30 0.30 Chou Kuei-Yu 18 07:32 1.39 28.57% 23.08% 100.00% 0.78 1.28 0.06 0.11 Kuo Shao-Chieh 7 07:34 2.29 71.43% 9.09% 50.00% 0.86 0.29 0.14 0.00 Lin Chih-Chieh 16 25:57 11.69 56.45% 27.84% 81.82% 5.75 3.88 0.94 0.13 Lin Meng-Hsueh 20 14:09 3.45 50.91% 9.09% 50.00% 2.20 0.60 0.40 0.25 Tsai Wen-Cheng 22 17:53 6.82 44.34% 50.00% 68.00% 4.23 1.86 1.00 0.18 Mike Singletary 16 33:41 20.38 49.66% 36.08% 82.95% 9.88 4.06 1.31 0.25 Tseng Hsiang-Chun 24 20:41 6.29 52.85% 0.00% 51.22% 6.29 0.88 0.50 0.96 Brendon Smart 14 11:12 3.36 41.94% 21.74% 60.00% 4.14 0.36 0.36 0.36 Ihor Zaytsev 18 36:02 17.17 56.50% 30.36% 65.17% 13.00 2.44 0.94 0.83 Charles García 14 33:10 20.00 59.09% 35.71% 74.11% 12.57 1.64 1.07 0.86 Tseng Wen-Ting 15 15:04 3.47 59.26% 22.22% 33.33% 2.80 2.33 0.80 0.67
Playoffs Player GP MPG PPG 2P% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG Lai Ting-En 3 08:47 3.00 42.86% 16.67% 0.00% 1.33 0.67 1.00 0.00 Joseph Lin 4 17:24 4.75 50.00% 16.67% 66.67% 2.50 4.25 0.25 0.25 Chien Wei-Ju 4 15:38 4.75 33.33% 23.81% 0.00% 2.25 1.50 1.25 0.00 Jet Chang 4 33:23 19.00 50.00% 29.63% 66.67% 3.00 3.75 2.00 0.25 Oscar Lin Did not play Chang Po-Wei Did not play Chou Kuei-Yu 2 09:10 1.00 0.00% 0.00% 100.00% 1.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 Kuo Shao-Chieh Did not play Lin Chih-Chieh 4 23:43 8.25 46.15% 21.43% 75.00% 4.25 4.25 0.25 0.00 Lin Meng-Hsueh 4 21:56 6.00 47.06% 33.33% 100.00% 4.25 1.00 0.75 0.50 Tsai Wen-Cheng 4 14:22 8.00 52.38% 22.22% 100.00% 3.75 0.75 1.00 0.00 Mike Singletary 4 37:44 23.25 59.46% 34.21% 76.92% 12.25 9.25 1.25 0.00 Tseng Hsiang-Chun 3 18:27 4.67 33.33% 0.00% 100.00% 4.67 0.33 0.67 0.00 Brendon Smart 2 14:02 6.00 37.50% 66.67% 0.00% 4.50 0.50 0.50 0.50 Ihor Zaytsev 4 35:09 24.00 67.35% 71.43% 83.33% 13.75 2.50 0.75 0.50 Charles García Did not play Tseng Wen-Ting 4 14:51 3.75 54.55% 16.67% 0.00% 3.25 1.75 0.25 0.00 Reference：
Transactions Free Agency Re-signed Date Player Contract terms Ref. June 17, 2020 Tsai Wen-Cheng 2+1-year contract, worth unknown July 29, 2020 Lin Meng-Hsueh September 11, 2020 Joseph Lin
Additions Date Player Contract terms Former teams Ref. May 26, 2020 Chou Kuei-Yu NTNU Master May 26, 2020 Tseng Hsiang-Chun FJU July 3, 2020 Chien Wei-Ju Taoyuan Pauian Archiland September 28, 2020 Brendon Smart UCH October 27, 2020 Chang Tsung-Hsien Formosa Dreamers November 3, 2020 Mike Singletary Mono Vampire November 3, 2020 Ihor Zaytsev Taiwan Beer November 3, 2020 Charles García Taoyuan Pauian Archiland
Subtractions Date Player Reason New team Ref. O. J. Mayo Liaoning Flying Leopards Samuel Deguara Tokyo Excellence May 26, 2020 Hung Chih-Shan contract expired New Taipei Kings May 26, 2020 Hsiao Shun-Yi contract expired Hsinchu JKO Lioneers May 26, 2020 Yang Hsing-Chih contract expired New Taipei Kings May 26, 2020 Li Ping-Hung contract expired Kaohsiung Jeoutai Technology May 26, 2020 Liu Weir-Chern contract expired Bank of Taiwan May 26, 2020 Wu Hung-Hsing contract expired Kaohsiung Jeoutai Technology May 26, 2020 Tsai Yang-Ming contract expired Taoyuan Pauian Archiland May 26, 2020 Lin Chih-Wei contract expired Bank of Taiwan
Awards
Finals awards Recipient Award Ref. Taipei Fubon Braves 2021 P. League+ Champions Mike Singletary Finals Most Valuable Player
End-of-season awards Recipient Award Ref. Jet Chang Most Valuable Player All-PLG Team All-Defensive Team Ihor Zaytsev Import of the Year All-PLG Team Hsu Chin-Che Coach of the Year Tsai Cherng-Ju GM of the Year Lin Chih-Chieh Mr. Popular
Players of the Month Recipient Award Month awarded Ref. Jet Chang December Most Valuable Player December
Players of the Week Week Recipient Date awarded Ref. Preseason Jet ChangLin Chih-Chieh October 7 - November 22 Week 1 Jet Chang December 19 - December 20 Week 2 Jet ChangCharles García December 26 - December 27 Week 3 Lin Chih-Chieh January 2 - January 3 Week 4 Lin Chih-Chieh January 9 - January 10 Week 5 Jet Chang January 16 - January 17 Week 6 Tseng Hsiang-Chun January 23 - January 24 Week 7 Joseph Lin January 30 - January 31 Week 8 Jet Chang February 6 - February 7 Week 9 Jet Chang February 20 - February 21 Week 10 Lin Chih-Chieh February 27 - March 1 Week 11 Lin Chih-ChiehMike Singletary March 6 - March 7 Week 12 Tsai Wen-Cheng March 13 - March 14 Week 14 Joseph Lin March 27 - March 28 Week 15 Joseph Lin April 3 - April 5
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