9 days later, the big black horse Shanxi team was again, and the Guangdong team did not drop the chain. On January 6, Beijing time, the 19th round of the CBA regular season, Guangdong team defeated Shanxi team 111-96 to complete revenge, successfully ending the opponent's 7 consecutive wins. At the same time as revenge, the recovery of foreign aid Weems has made the defending champion even more happy. In the whole game, Weems played 31 minutes and had 24 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals, playing his best game of the season.
Since the start of the second phase of the regular season, Weems has not performed well. In the first game against Guangsha, Weems contributed 23 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists in 33 minutes, and his debut cannot be said to be bad, but it lacks stability in the game. When Guangdong fought back frantically in the last quarter, Weems did not stand up and take over the game as usual. In the second game, he only had 11 points and 5 assists, and 5 turnovers. In a big win over Gilling, he delivered 15 assists but scored just 14 points. After that, Guangdong defeated Liaoning, and Weems had 12 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists on 4-of-10 shooting, and the help given to Guangdong in the game was extremely limited. With a big win over Tongxi, he closed the play, but the performance of only 8 points and 3 assists in 20 minutes was not efficient.
But this time facing Shanxi, the fans familiar Weems returned. From the very beginning of the race, Weems quickly got into form. The first attack was when he broke the record for the first time for the Guangdong team. Attacking again, Wiems completed the attack with the shot he was best at. What is very useful for the Guangdong team is that Weems' breakthrough is more comfortable. This was originally one of the most threatening places in Weems, and the Guangdong team's choice to easily break into the opponent's hinterland became less than zhao rui in these games, but fortunately, Weems found his form in time, which also made the Guangdong team's attack more abundant. In the first quarter, Weems combined the score after the breakthrough to help the Guangdong team.
In the last 22 seconds of the first quarter, Weems defended Shanxi foreign aid Simmons closely, and when Shanxi was preparing to hand over the ball to Simmons, Weems snatched in advance, directly launched a dragon counterattack quick attack, and ended the attack with a two-handed dunk. Such a scene, Weems has frequently presented to fans in the past, but since the return of this season, Weems such a shot is rare, this time, Weems once again staged a dragon dunk, but also reflects his physical function and on-field state in the gradual recovery.
In the past three seasons, the presence of Marzan Brooks has made Du Feng's small-ball tactics very rich, at present, Ma Shang is not sure when he will return, as the only foreign aid of the Guangdong team, Weems naturally needs to take on more heavy responsibilities. In the first half, Weems scored 17 points, becoming the highest scoring player in both teams, which is evident in his good form.
After a short break, Weems continued his play in the second half. At the beginning of the third quarter, he assisted Zhou Peng to complete the breakthrough layup. Holding the ball to attract Shanxi three-man defense after passing back to Yi Jianlian at the top of the arc, Weems assisted Yi Jianlian to easily shoot a three-point shot in the empty position. In this quarter, Weems did a good job in tandem, playing to the back of the single quarter, he was assisting Ren Junfei, and it was a wonderful pass Zhou Peng, in Hu Mingxuan's consecutive passing mistakes, Xu Jie performed mediocre on the offensive end, Weems was an offensive organization to catch. After being inspired by the counterpart Of Shanxi foreign aid Simmons, Wims did not close in the last quarter. After assisting Hu Mingxuan and Du Runwang inside and outside, he also snatched Simmons to help Guangdong continue to open up the point difference and grasp the initiative at the beginning of the final quarter.
As Weems recovered, Guangdong's overall offense was also revived, with a full-court score of 111 points, creating Guangdong's second-highest single-game score in the second phase of the regular season. However, compared with the first high score of 116 points (against Jilin), Guangdong's three-point score in this campaign was 15 points less, but this still did not affect the Guangdong team to suppress the Shanxi team with its human way, and drowned the Shanxi team with a more fluent attack.
After revenge on Shanxi, Guangdong won two consecutive victories, which is also the longest winning streak of the defending champions in the second stage of the regular season, which also represents their rebound for the difficult Guangdong team. Although the big victory over the Tongxi team does not have much gold content to speak of, the revenge has won 7 consecutive victories, and the Shanxi team that has previously defeated Liaoning, Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangdong, and it is also a big victory, which is enough to restore confidence to the Guangdong team that lacks major generals. Considering that they will have to fight against Jilin and Tongxi again next, Guangdong also has enough opportunities to continue the winning streak.
But for the defending champions, this game of revenge against The Shanxi team is still worth summarizing. In the whole game, the Guangdong team had 15 turnovers, and although this was their fewest single-game mistakes in the second stage, they clearly still had something to improve. According to the data, Guangdong has averaged 19.7 errors per game since the start of the second stage, ranking third in the league, second only to The North Control Team and the Tongxi Team. In the second quarter, Hu Mingxuan's many mistakes brought great interference to the Guangdong team's attack, if you can continue to reduce mistakes, continue to fight for rebounds like this game (rebounds to win 12 in Shanxi), I believe that Guangdong's attack will be smoother and more threatening, and that Guangdong is the strongest of them. At the same time, When Weems played to the last moment of the final quarter, his physical fitness declined and his control on the field declined, and how to better distribute Weems' physical strength is also what Du Feng needs to consider.
According to the schedule, Guangdong will play Liaoning again on January 13, which will be the reserve time for Guangdong team before that. As the Guangdong team gradually comes out of the quagmire, if Weems can continue to maintain the state of this game, Zhao Rui will be able to come back at that time, and I believe that Guangdong at that time will also have more confidence to fight against Liaoning.