The Baoding Division of the Super Triple League has not been long concluded, and the second stage of the 2021 National Men's Triple Basketball Super League and the Finals will be held at the Macao East Asian Games Gymnasium from January 3 to January 23.
In the first part of the Baoding Division, Texas Deda was undoubtedly one of the most stressed teams, and in the first four rounds, Texas Deda repeatedly folded the qualifiers. The players were depressed, burdensome and stressful. Team leader Liu Zhen and coach Li Xin held many meetings to regulate the emotions of the team members, channel pressure, and at the same time, seriously find the cause and seek countermeasures. Corresponding adjustments have also been made in terms of personnel allocation, and the personnel allocation of two middle and two small, one old with three small, requires letting go of hands and feet, improving the intensity of defense, and daring to boldly attack.
These changes have achieved obvious results, Texas Deda finally broke through successfully, twice into the knockout rounds, two consecutive times to reach the final four, especially worth mentioning that Dezhou Deda defeated the powerful Chongming Hengsha Yumin, and twice defeated Zhejiang Pulai, with 120 points temporarily ranked tenth in the standings. What is more gratifying than advancing to the final four in the qualifiers is that the players have a new mental outlook, more and more morale, more and more confidence, and play their due level!
Today at 15:00 in the group stage of the Macau Division, Dezhou Deda took the lead in the debut, and the opponent was the powerful Shenzhen Century. Dezhou Deda kicked off first, two attacks failed, and Shenzhen Century Set Sail to get the first point.
With Li Haonan's 2-point shot on the outside line, Dezhou Deda opened the offensive mode, Wang Zhixing and Li Haonan frequently fired cannons on the outside line, constantly hitting long-range shots, and the inside veteran Wang Xuefeng relied on his physical advantage to score consecutive baskets, for example, gradually opened up, Texas Deda always led the opponent by 3-4 points.
Not to be outdone, Shenzhen Century Sail continued to attack, breaking through the scoring after receiving the ball, playing a 2+1 to tie the score to 11:11. After the game, Dezhou Deda strengthened its defense, actively looked for the opponent's weakness, took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's physical decline, constantly broke through, played with continuous scoring, and pulled the score apart again, with Wang Zhixing's personal layup breakthrough, Texas Deda won the game with a 21:16 explosive score. In this game, Wang Zhixing played well and scored a game-high score of 9 points.
19:30 Dezhou Deda made another appearance again, facing the powerful guangdong chimelong, the triplet who is currently ranked first in the points ranking. Texas Deda held the attitude of learning and went light. Guangdong Chimelong scored 3 consecutive points after kicking off, Dezhou Deda did not want to show weakness, Li Haonan made a long-range shot, and the score came to 3:2.
Subsequently, Guangdong Chimelong strengthened its defense and actively pressed for grabs, which made Deda in Texas make unnecessary mistakes many times. In this game, Guangdong Chimelong continued to show superb tactical qualities, with tacit understanding and fluency, fierce defense, personal breakthrough and long-range shooting. Due to the large difference in strength, the score gradually opened, and finally Guangdong Chimelong won two consecutive group stages with a 22:10 victory over Dezhou Deda, advancing to the quarterfinals as the first in the group, and Dezhou Deda successfully advanced to the second place in the group with a win and 1 loss.
Through this game, Texas Deda saw the gap and inadequacy between himself and the strong team, under the fierce defense and forced grab, he could not play together, and his own mistakes were as many as 7-8 times. It is expected that the team will seriously summarize, actively look for ways to improve and cope with it, and believe that the follow-up games will get better and better!