With a wave of 23-2 in the fourth quarter, Guangdong reversed Shanxi in a situation of full-court chase, avoiding being double-killed by the opponent and ending the opponent's seven-game winning streak. In the four matches that began in the second stage, Guangdong played against Guangsha, Shanxi, Jilin and Liaoning in succession, and after defeating Tongxi in the middle, they once again played against the same four opponents. In addition to the victory over Jilin, Guangdong lost the other three games and all of them were fiasco. This not only caused the ranking to fall to seventh place, but also made many fans wonder whether Guangdong was still competing for the championship.
The last time the opponent blasted out the 23 three-point shooting rate of 46%, Guangdong made a deployment for the external defense, focusing of course on the original coach who shot 8 three-pointers on the field, he only got a pitiful 4 points in 1 of 8 three-point shooting, while Shanxi's overall three-point shooting rate was only 29% of the 38 shots.
Locked Shanxi's outside line, Guangdong's offensive end is aimed at Shanxi's inside line, in addition to Ge Zhaobao, Shanxi's inner line Xing Zhiqiang and Yan Pengfei are not tall enough, Yi Jianlian showed good form to cut down 23 points and 20 rebounds of the double twenty. Another hero is Ren Junfei, who frequently sneaked up on the basket and quietly got 19 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists.
After the game, Du Feng praised Shanxi coach Yang Xuezeng as an excellent coach, and shanxi team has made some progress this season.
However, Du Feng criticized the young players by name, saying that their defensive ability has not been greatly improved in several seasons, and they cannot think that they are the best in the same position because they have won the championship because they are lying down. Have an attitude rather than hope to lie down and win.
He is obviously talking about Zeng Fanri, who only played 4 minutes in this game to get 1 point and two fouls, and the time and efficiency of playing were even less than that of Zhang Mingchi, a young player who scored 7 points in 9 minutes. Although Zhang Mingchi is effective in attack, he has obvious shortcomings in protecting the frame and protecting rebounds and confrontation, and has become the object of the opponent's main attack several times. Zeng Fanri was squeezed to the bench by such a young general, obviously not because Zhang Mingchi was very good, but because his performance could not satisfy Du Feng.
In the first few games of the season, the UAE League played the first game and took a few breaks, Ah Ri got a lot of opportunities, and he performed well against Shenzhen and Zhejiang, scoring doubles while rebounding well, and from time to time there were beautiful strategy assists. But after playing Sichuan, Ah Ri inexplicably fell into a slump, and his performance fluctuated.
After the start of the second stage, except for the garbage time against Tongxi, Ah Ri only played more than 10 minutes against Jilin. In addition to scoring 6 points in the game against Jilin, there were three games to hang zero, and the remaining two games only scored 1 point and 2 points. Although his positioning is only a blue collar, this score is inevitably too ugly. On the defensive end, Ari also appears to be distracted and misplaced from time to time. Maybe Du Feng was too harsh on him, but Ah Ri did not play a convincing performance.
Du Feng's strategy for young players is to ask him to do more when his specialized skills have reached a satisfactory effect. For example, DuRunwang Rookie was sent to the United States for special training in the season as a pure shooter to increase skills such as ball control. Du Feng also intends to build him into a three-point enhanced version of the second flight, training his skills in mid-shots.
The same is true for Ah Ri, du Feng will not only think of him as a blue-collar interior if he wants to reuse him. In addition to rebounding and defense, he is also required to have the ability to shoot in the middle and even have the ability to do three points later. After the offseason, Ari's skills did not improve much, which may have disappointed Du Feng very much. I hope that Ari will guard against arrogance and impatience, not be paralyzed by external comments and praise, and continue to make progress.