After a 40-day wait, the second phase of the CBA regular season kicked off amid a hail of calls. On December 25, the 20 teams gathered in changchun, Jilin province, will resume fighting, but this time, the CBA competition is far better than the previous stage.
The second phase of the regular season consisted of 15 rounds of 35 days, compared to the first stage, which also took 35 days but only 13 rounds, and the second stage was more intensive.
At the same time, 28 foreign aid have been registered in the second phase, compared with only 7 foreign aid in the first phase, and the foreign aid in the second phase is several times more. Moreover, at present, in addition to the Jiangsu team, 19 other CBA teams have registered foreign aid, and 9 teams are double foreign aid. Coupled with the North Control foreign aid Lanzberg who is about to return to the team after the end of the quarantine, the Zhejiang team that is still in isolation intends to assist Eric Green, the former NBA insider Liv who will join the Guangdong team, and the old face Ledo who is rumored to join the top team of the CBA, the second stage of the CBA will have at least 32 foreign aides. At that time, there will be more teams with a double foreign aid configuration, and the game will naturally become more intense.
Due to the shrinkage of the regular season this season, the schedule is only 38 rounds, instead of the 56 rounds previously envisaged (last season was originally 56 rounds, but the withdrawal of the Bayi team was affected to a certain extent), for this reason, after the first phase of the regular season, which began in a slight haste and most teams did not have foreign aid, the second phase of the regular season (a total of three stages in the regular season) will also become very critical, and each team will invest more troops in this stage to strive for better results before the Spring Festival.
The 13 rounds of the first stage of the game, because of the small number of foreign aid, the vast majority of the teams are all Chinese classes, coupled with the addition of the new Ningbo team, resulting in a CBA game can be described as strong and weak. Of these, 65 games with a point difference of more than 15 points also mean that half of the matches in the first stage are very different. For comparison, there were only 44 such games last season. It is worth mentioning that 14 of these 65 games have a point difference of more than 30 points, which also accounts for 1/4. If you break it down further, there are 43 games with a point difference of more than 20 points. Because there are not too many CBA local stars, especially not evenly distributed, half of the active national players are concentrated in Liaoning and Guangdong, so the overall impression of the first stage of the CBA game is that the ornamentation and intensity are significantly reduced.
Now, with foreign aid, especially the influx of so many foreign aid, coupled with the better run-in between foreign aid and local players, the competition for the second stage of the CBA will naturally become more intense. Even to a large extent, the second stage of the game will become very tragic, especially between teams with little difference in wins, and the victory or defeat between each other will directly determine their ranking. In other words, the real CBA game will start in the second stage.
Liaoning coach Yang Ming is such a view, "The second stage of the game is completely different from the first stage, the foreign aid of each team is also in place, and the situation of injury recovery and team run-in is getting better and better, so the real game starts from the second stage." After saying that, Yang Ming even said that as the leader of the Liaoning team, the goal of the second stage is to play every game well, do their best, and make the most difficult preparations.
The schedule of the second stage is indeed more exciting than the first stage. Although there are two "Beijing-Guangdong wars" in the first stage, as well as strong dialogues such as Beijing vs Zhejiang, Liaoning VS Guangsha, Guangdong vs Shanghai, etc., there will be more exciting matches in the second stage. On December 25, the first match day of the second phase, beijing vs Liaoning was arranged, beijing has registered a double foreign aid combination of Jeremy Lin and Gibson, and Liaoning also has a double foreign aid configuration of Fogg and Morland. At the same time, Guo Allen, Zhao Jiwei, Zhang Zhenlin and Han Dejun, who previously represented the national team in Japan to participate in the World Preliminary Tournament, have also ended their return to China isolation and the Liaoning team will meet, and the two teams with a neat lineup will also bring a visual feast to the fans on the first day of the second stage. After that, the two teams will have two more battles.
In addition to the two games in Beijing and Liaoning, there will be two Liao-Cantonese battles in the second stage, and two old rivals who have fought in the finals for the past two seasons will once again present the CBA's "Spring Festival War" to the majority of fans before the Spring Festival. In addition, the competition between Shenzhen, Guangdong VS Shanghai, Zhejiang VS Shenzhen, Zhejiang VS Shanghai, which is the third in the Liaoning VS League, will also enhance the ornamentation of the second stage and aggravate the tragic degree of this stage.
Since the remaining third phase of the regular season is scheduled to take place from March 30 to April 21, 2022, it will not be restarted until 60 days after the end of the second phase. Moreover, the third stage only has the last 10 rounds left, and for this reason, the second stage is the real beginning of the sprint playoffs. Some teams may even determine playoff eligibility early at this stage, while others may lose playoff qualification early at this stage.
Due to the changes in the epidemic prevention and control situation in Zhejiang and other places, the second phase of the CBA regular season will be all concentrated in the Changchun Division of Jilin Province. Although Changchun is now icy and snowy, the temperature is extremely low, but this obviously can not stop the enthusiasm of CBA teams, players and fans, and the second phase of the regular season, starting from the 25th, will also open the CBA's worst 35 days of the season.