On January 4, Beijing time, the 18th round of the CBA regular season, Liaoning won four consecutive victories with a 93-80 victory over Shenzhen, and continued to sit at the top of the league table with 16 wins and 2 losses. Since playing with the strongest lineup, the Liaoning team has not only won every game, but also won every game easily, and almost everywhere it went, it was "no grass", and its dominance was almost unmatched.
After the start of the second stage of the regular season, the only game that Liaoning lost was its debut loss to Beijing, and it also suffered a 23-point defeat. But that game was obviously not the real strength of the Liaoning team, head coach Yang Ming rotated the four main players Guo Allen, Han Dejun, Zhang Zhenlin and Li Xiaoxu, Zhao Jiwei only played 14 minutes before being replaced, and the Beijing team was the strongest team after joining the double foreign aid Jeremy Lin and Gibson. After the national players went to Japan to participate in the World Preliminary Tournament and returned to China for a long time, they had a great impact on the physical fitness and state of the Liaoning players, and Yang Ming's rotation choice also greatly affected the combat effectiveness of the Liaoning team, which led to their loss to the Beijing team.
With the comeback of Guo Allen, Zhang Zhenlin and Han Dejun, as Zhao Jiwei began to gradually recover his physical strength and state, coupled with Ferge gradually entering a better state, the newly joined foreign aid Moland became more and more integrated, and the Liaoning team, which rotated extremely richly, also began to show unparalleled combat effectiveness.
In the second match against Beijing, Liaoning rebounded strongly with a 19-point advantage over Tianjin. After a big victory over Tianjin, they beat Fujian by 19 points, and it was in the case of Guo Allen's expulsion in the last quarter. In the New Year's War of 2022, facing the defending champion Guangdong Team, the all-out Liaoning team was also unambiguous, and finally won the opponent with a 20-point advantage. Due to the strength is too strong, Liaoning's opponents in this game, Shenzhen, simply chose to give up strategically in advance after the team's core Shen Zijie was injured last week, and took a rotation to suspend Gu Quan and foreign aid Booker. Facing the remnants of the Shenzhen team, the Liaoning team also played extremely easily, and finally won a big victory again. In the whole game, Liaoning occupied an overwhelming advantage in rebounds, three-pointers, assists and other statistics.
After winning this wave of four consecutive wins, the Liaoning team also fully demonstrated their horror. In four games, they averaged 17.8 points per game against their opponents, and the least game won was this match with Shenzhen, but this game was obviously not the strongest Liaoning team, if it were not for the Liaoning team withdrawing the main force and foreign aid early and replacing the substitute players of the all-China class, if it were not for the Shenzhen team until the last minute to replace the foreign aid Salinger, liaoning team could have won another 20+ big win, after all, they led by more than 20 points more than four minutes after the start of the second quarter.
So far this season, Liaoning has only lost two games. In addition to losing to Beijing, their other game they lost was the first stage loss to Shanxi. But in that game, Guo Allen did not play, Liaoning team is still the all-Chinese class, and Shanxi team has foreign aid Feld. And when the Liaoning team lineup was in order, they all won. Therefore, it is not difficult to see how strong the Liaoning team is when the lineup is in order.
And after an easy win, the current lineup of the Liaoning team is indeed rich enough to be envied. This season, they have averaged six players in double figures per game, namely Guo Allen, Fogg, Zhao Jiwei, Zhang Zhenlin, Han Dejun and Fuhao. At the same time, the big foreign player Morland who is still integrating can contribute 7.2 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, but his contribution in many times is actually far more than the data, just to protect the basket to han Dejun to share the playing time and pressure, Moland has brought great help to the Liaoning team, and this is what the Liaoning team has been longing for in recent seasons.
In addition, after the comeback of Wu Changze and Liu Zhixuan, they further enriched the rotation lineup of the Liaoning team, especially the active and passionate Wu Changze (averaging 6.4 points and 4.4 rebounds per game), making the Position of Liaoning's big forward more abundant, and the veteran Li Xiaoxu also had to get more rest time. Coupled with Li Xiaoxu, Cong Mingchen and Yan Zhiqi, the Liaoning team's lineup is really rich enough for Yang Ming to compress the playing time of young rotating players such as Zhu Rongzhen, Yu Zechen and Zhou Juncheng, and in the first stage, they all got a lot of exercise opportunities. From the current point of view, the reserves of the Liaoning team in any position are extremely deep, and there are no obvious shortcomings.
Facing such a Liaoning team, the opponents are also under pressure. According to the next schedule of liaoning teams, they will face Beijing, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Guangdong, and then Fujian, Guangzhou, Xinjiang, Beikong, Ningbo and Tongxi and other more general teams. Among these teams, shenzhen team if Shen Zijie returns may still be able to challenge Liaoning, the troubled Guangdong team from the current point of view is difficult to threaten Liaoning team, although the lineup is neat, but there are still big problems at the offensive end of the Beijing team, it is still difficult to stop Liaoning team. Therefore, as long as the Liaoning team does not have an unexpected injury, in the case of not taking the enemy lightly, they have enough opportunities to win consecutively, because they do have such strength.
Before the start of the second stage of the regular season, Liaoning coach Yang Ming said: "The second stage of the game is completely different from the first stage, the foreign assistance 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." Therefore, from the perspective of the Liaoning team, it is to play every game well, do our best, and make the most difficult preparations. "But from now on, the Liaoning team has no difficulties at all, if you insist on talking about difficulties, it may be how to help the big foreign aid Moland better integrate and let him show a better state."