On January 10, Beijing time, the 21st round of the CBA regular season, the Guangdong team that took a break from Yi Jianlian took a 101-87 light victory over the Tongxi team, and in this second-time battle, the defending champion still did not give the Tongxi team any chance. But after this big victory, is the Guangdong team ready to fight against the Liaoning team?
To be fair, it is not surprising that the Guangdong team won the Tongxi team. Before the game, the Tongxi team ranked at the bottom of the league with 1 win and 19 losses, and has suffered a long 17-game losing streak, lacking the main players such as Xi Relijiang, and their overall strength is extremely average, they are basically who loses, and the record is even worse than the new ningbo team that entered the CBA for the first time this season. At the same time, the Guangdong team has no pressure to face the Tongxi team in the past confrontations, and the Guangdong team has won all 15 times in the history of the two sides. A week ago, the two sides met for the first time this season, and Guangdong won by 25 points.
Therefore, this time again, even if the Guangdong team takes a rotation to rest Yi Jianlian, there is still not much suspense in playing with the Tongxi team. In the first half, the relaxed Guangdong team encountered resistance from opponents, and was once overtaken by the opponent in the second quarter, and head coach Du Feng also repeatedly dissatisfied with the performance of young players on the field. But as Guangdong unleashed its efforts on the defensive end in the last four minutes of the second quarter and increased concentration on the offensive end, Guangdong instantly played a 17-2 attack wave, establishing a 14-point lead at the end of the first half.
After entering the second half of the competition, Guangdong team further controlled the game. In this dull game, Guangdong further widened the point difference in the third quarter and maintained a lead of about 20 points for a long time. In the face of the loosely defended Tongxi team, the Guangdong team is more often in the practice of tactics and running positions, in addition to giving many young players a lot of opportunities, Du Feng also frequently replaced the main players with substitute players to play, in order to increase the aggressiveness of the Guangdong team's rotation lineup and develop more available combinations.
The most obvious point is that when the foreign aid Weems came on the scene, most of the time did not attack himself, but played the role of the organizer to frequently launch attacks, only when the 24 seconds of attack time was about to arrive, So that he had to shoot, Weems would shoot, and when he was replaced, Weems was also relaxed and almost did not sweat. In the fourth quarter of the game, the Guangdong team once sent a combination without a point guard, and it was the shooter Wang Shukai and the main point guard Liu Quanbiao who pushed forward the attack for a long time. No matter what kind of mistakes the players made, Du Feng did not stand up to criticize, which shows how high Du Feng's fault tolerance rate for rotating players is.
In such a rhythm, Guangdong team finally won a big victory, and core players such as Zhou Peng and Weems also laughed very easily at the end of the game and high-fived their opponents. However, this big victory actually still has a lot of problems to sum up. The most typical is still the Mistakes of the Guangdong Team, the Guangdong Team made 20 mistakes in the whole game, 2 times more than the Tongxi Team, and the two times against the Tongxi Team were more than the opponents. At the same time, this is the third time that Guangdong has made at least 20+ turnovers in the last four games. For a team known for its fast attack and sharpness, there are too many mistakes, and there are more mistakes than weak teams like the Tongxi team, which is indeed not like the performance of a defending champion.
The Guangdong team rotated Yi Jianlian and let many of the main players rest early, which is indeed part of the reason for the many mistakes. But before the fourth quarter really sent young players to train, Guangdong's mistakes have been many, the first three quarters of the mistakes have reached 16 times, at that time, their main players or main rotation players are still playing for a long time, but the mistakes have not decreased. Although the Tongxi team also made 18 mistakes, the Guangdong team's steals were far less than the Xi team (losing 6 times).
In addition, the Guangdong team needs to summarize that in the face of an opponent with a lot of strength and its own gap, the Guangdong team only has 65 shots in the whole sports battle, although many attacks have created opponents' free throws, and the number of free throws far exceeds that of the opponent (20 times more than Tongxi), but the rhythm of the Guangdong team is still not fast enough, and the attack is not smooth. On the three-point shot, Guangdong shot 4 of 11, even less than the opponent's 27 shot of 10. In the rebounding scramble, the Guangdong team only won 3, which also depressed the Guangdong team's ball to a certain extent.
In addition, the defensive intensity of the Guangdong team in the fourth quarter is also difficult to satisfy. Although the last minute was sent for a long time to send substitute players, the Guangdong team did not continue the defensive intensity, and it was also at this time that the Tongxi team seized the opportunity to hit three-pointers multiple times or complete the attack, and the opponents mostly completed the attack with the role players of the Tongxi team. Although Du Feng did not directly criticize the players on the sidelines, the Guangdong team did not dare to compliment such a performance.
In order to ensure the physical fitness of the main players, Du Feng chose to let Zhou Peng, Weems, Ren Junfei and others rest early, Zhou Peng and Ren Junfei played less than 20 minutes, and Weems also just exceeded 20 minutes. The playing time of Huma County and Xu Jie is also not high, which is no problem. However, role players such as Du Runwang, Zeng Fanri, Su Wei, Zhang Mingchi and others have still a lot of room for improvement in the performance of the playing time, and such a state will inevitably make people sweat for the defending champions.
According to the schedule, Guangdong will play Liaoning again in its next match, on January 13. Compared with the Liaoning team, the current state of the Guangdong team has a gap, and the main defender Zhao Rui is not sure when to return to the team. In this case, the Guangdong team, which does not seem to have enough depth, will fight against the strong Liaoning team, and the lineup disadvantage will be more obvious. On the other hand, Liaoning has just played against Beijing, and the next game (January 11) will be shenzhen again, and their status is better protected against stronger opponents. In contrast, the Guangdong team's recent schedule test is not big, which is not conducive to their adjustment of the state, and compared with the Liaoning team, the Guangdong team may have one of the few advantages is that they can rest for more than half a day.
Fighting the Liaoning team again, the Guangdong team that lost miserably last time is bound to want to take revenge with all its might. Just challenging the leader in such a state, it doesn't seem easy for the defending champion to really cause trouble for his opponents.