On the afternoon of October 17, in the first round of the 2021-2022 CBA League regular season, Shanghai Jiushi defeated the Tianjin Forerunners 120-94 and won the opening.
Both teams failed to make the playoffs last season. Among them, Shanghai ranked 14th in the regular season, and Tianjin ranked 17th. In this campaign, the two sides played more glue in the first half. After the game began, the Shanghai team that went out of the game was somewhat out of shape, and was caught off guard by the Tianjin team, and the first quarter of the battle ended, and the Shanghai team was 23-31 behind the Tianjin team by 8 points.
In this quarter, Shanghai's new head coach Li Chunjiang arranged for Franklin, Wang Zhelin, Kelan Baike, Ren Junwei and Liu Zheng to form a starting lineup. This is the new starting lineup of the Shanghai team, and the five have previously played for 4 teams. Among them, Franklin and Ren Junwei were in Shanxi Fenjiu last season; Wang Zhelin is from Fujian, and although Kelan Baike and Liu Zheng came to Shanghai last season, they previously played in Xinjiang and Guangsha respectively.
It is said that with such a starting lineup, against Tianjin, which ranked 17th in the regular season last season, should fully take the initiative. But the truth is just the opposite, in the opening stage, Wang Zhelin felt cold, and Ren Junwei and Liu Zheng did not seem to find the feeling. In comparison, Kranbeek is in good shape. His three-pointer helped Shanghai not fall too far behind.
Tianjin team new coach Caesar arranged for Lin Tingqian, Jin Xin, Shi Deshuai, He Siyu and Li Jiayi to make their debuts. Among them, after Lin Tingqian and Jin Xin opened, their hands felt hot, especially Jin Xin, who was accurate in three points, so that they were ahead of the Shanghai team. It is worth mentioning that in the first quarter, Tianjin's inner player Pan Ning came on as a substitute, which was the second time he returned to the CBA after 635 days. The last time he played was in the 2019-2020 Tianjin team against Sichuan. In May 2020, Penning accidentally suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament injury during training and required a six-month truce. He has since missed the entire last season. Now, in another new season, Penning has officially made a comeback. After Pan Ning came on the stage, he performed well and became one of the players in Tianjin's scoring doubles.
From the second quarter, the Shanghai team gradually played the overall basketball cooperation, in addition to Koran Baike still maintained a three-point shot almost no false hit rate, Wang Zhelin began to gradually threaten, scoring, rebounding are successively in doubles, with the reputation of "three-double foreign aid" Franklin, also gradually played his own value. Particularly impressive is that his assists are the first to double-double. This has undoubtedly become an important weapon for the Shanghai team to attack.
At half-time, Shanghai surpassed Tianjin by 6 points 52-46.
In the second half, the Shanghai team was in full control of the situation on the field and did not give tianjin a chance to counterattack. In the end, they defeated Tianjin 120-94 and won the opening of the new season. Among them, Krambek shot 7 of 9 from three-point range, shooting an amazing percentage, and he scored 21 points in the whole game, becoming the highest scorer in the team.
Next, in the second round, Shanghai Jiushi will face Sichuan Jinrong Industrial at 19:35 on Wednesday, October 20, while Tianjin Pioneer will face Shenzhen Marco Polo at 11:00 on October 19.