In the 18th round of the CBA regular season, the Shandong men's basketball team defeated Shanghai 117-100. The reason why it is said to be upset is because the paper strength of the Shandong team is indeed under the Shanghai team, and the main point guard Gao Shiyan in this game is absent.
In fact, it can also be seen from the league rankings that before this game, Shandong ranked 11th in the league with 8 wins and 9 losses, while Shanghai team was 4th in the league with 4 consecutive wins and 3 losses. But even so, Shandong suppressed the Shanghai team in the whole game, leading the opponent by 15 points in the first quarter, and did not give Shanghai any chance to turn the tables.
If you want to find the reason for Shanghai's loss in this game, you can turn out many reasons, such as shooting only 38.5%, not as good as the opponent's 56.8%; only 38 rebounds, 12 less than Shandong team; small foreign aid Franklin played poorly, scoring only 7 points on 10 shooting, which is far from Hudson's 26 points.
But in the author's opinion, the reason for the shanghai team's defeat in this game can even be summed up simply and rudely: Wang Zhelin + Feng Lai can't beat Tao Hanlin.
In this game, Wang Zhelin played 31 minutes and 11 seconds, 8 of 14 shots, with 18 points and 6 rebounds; Feng Lai appeared in 24 minutes and 3 seconds, 7 of 19 shots, and had 20 points and 12 rebounds; and Tao Hanlin played 42 minutes and 1 second, 12 shots and 8 shots, cut 22 points and 20 rebounds, and fought to 6 fouls.
Purely from the data point of view, Tao Hanlin's performance is not better than Wang Zhelin + Feng Lai, but what cannot be ignored is that Feng Lai is a frontal play on the outside, and Wang Zhelin is almost a colander at the defensive end, so in the role of the defensive end, Tao Hanlin is greater than Wang Zhelin + Feng Lai.
Tao Hanlin has enough deterrence on the inside, which means that Shandong can keep Hudson on the field for as long as possible. Hudson 6 assists, Wang Ruheng 9 assists, Tao Hanlin ate cake on the inside line to eat a full, while the outside line has Hudson such a ball holding fire point, Shandong's overall attack is balanced inside and outside.
On the other hand, the Shanghai team, no one in the inner line can play Tao Hanlin, and the outside line Franklin, Guo Haowen and other people feel cold, even in terms of organizational tandem, it is not as good as Hudson + Wang Ruheng. So, even though Shandong made 25 mistakes in the whole game, a full 10 times more than Shanghai, Shanghai still lost 17 points.
Tao Hanlin got the first double 20 of his career, and Wang Zhelin and Feng Lai did not have more rebounds than Tao Hanlin alone. To put it bluntly, Tao Hanlin's leading role in the team and deterrence against opponents are beyond the reach of either Wang Zhelin or Feng Lai. The Plus-Minus +21 for the Sharks is also the highest in the game, and even Hudson is only +6.
Some fans said that Shanghai was one of the few teams with foreign aid in the first stage, and the schedule was relatively relaxed, so the record was good. Nowadays, the teams have basically ushered in foreign aid, if the Shanghai team can not produce a good chemical reaction, the defensive end continues to be loose, then even if the heavy investment, this season will be difficult to go further in the playoffs.