Wang Zhelin, the captain of the Shanghai Sharks men's basketball team, was not able to celebrate his birthday with seven consecutive wins. In a focus battle in the CBA regular season that ended tonight, the Sharks lost to Shenzhen 103-119.
Wang Zhelin, who ushered in his 28th birthday, is of course very eager to win, but in the fourth quarter, when he left the field with six fouls in the crucial stage of the team's points, he could only regret to watch his teammates on the sidelines finally unable to return to the sky.
Wang Zhelin, who scored 17 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 steals in the game, tried his best, but unfortunately encountered foul trouble early, accumulating three fouls in the first half.
Only a few seconds after the third quarter, Wang Zhelin was not only whistled for a foul when defending under the basket, but also had a mental imbalance. Soon, impatiently, he attacked too hard and moved too hard under the basket, and after eating his fifth foul, he had to sit back on the bench again. In the fourth quarter, Wang Zhelin, who returned to the court, once led the team to chase the score, but in the end he "graduated early" because of a foul when he competed for rebounds under the basket.
It is not only Wang Zhelin who encounter foul trouble with the big sharks, but also the starting big forward Ren Junwei. He had three fouls in the first quarter and four at halftime. The two main players on the inside line did not dare to easily do defensive actions under the basket, which directly led to the opening lead and the good situation of the sharks being overtaken by the opponent in the second half of the first quarter, and were always suppressed by the Shenzhen team in the score.
Of course, too many shark fouls are also related to the team's impatient mentality, facing this opponent who has defeated him this season, the whole team is filled with this emotion of wanting to eat the opponent in one breath.
In addition to the repeated fouls of the core players, the team's shooting percentage is also very bad. The Shenzhen team, relying on excellent three-point feel, suddenly opened the score in the final stage of the second quarter and entered the halftime with a 17-point lead.
In the third quarter, the Sharks still could not limit the outside firepower of the Shenzhen team, especially their big foreign aid Salinger blasted three three-pointers in a row in a single quarter. Always keep the score gap at around 15 points.
The Sharks finally regained their sense of play in the final quarter, limiting their opponents' play through tenacious defense and gradually approaching the score. But whenever the difference between the two teams is about to narrow to single digits, the Sharks will always be pulled apart by the opponent because of their own offensive mistakes.
It is always a breath away from the turnover, and the problem of the Big Sharks is also in the absence of point guard Yuan Tangwen due to injury. Yuan Tangwen, who sprained his ankle in the last game, was not included in the big list for tonight's game, and the team's real point guard was only foreign assistant Franklin.
When Wang Zhelin and Ren Junwei both had foul problems, the Sharks could only use the big forward Feng Lai on foreign aid, which was equivalent to not having a defender who could organize the attack well in the lineup on the court, which directly led to the team's poor attack and too many mistakes.
The lineup without Franklin also brought a side effect - the original three-point shooter Luo Hanchen had to take on the heavy responsibility of the offensive organization, due to too much energy involved, the first few games of the outside fire, he only shot 2 three-pointers in this game.
The defeat was the Fifth Regular Season loss of the Shanghai Sharks, which they will face against another powerhouse, Zhejiang, at 7:35 p.m. this Saturday. Zhejiang and the Sharks are both 20-5, and the Sharks won 112:103 when the two teams met for the first time this season.