On January 28, Beijing time, the 28th round of the CBA League ushered in a focus battle, Guangdong team vs Shanghai team. At the end of the first half, Guangdong team was 48-68, behind Shanghai by a large score. In the 16 minutes before the start of the game, the Guangdong team was completely unbalanced at both ends of the attack and defense, and the Shanghai team frantically cut 50 points.
In this game, Guangdong's foreign aid Weems quickly returned to the team, and Ledo and Weems's two foreign aides were combined for the first time. After the start of the first quarter, Guangdong was still in good shape, taking the lead in layups and starting with a wave of 8-3 leadership. However, after Liu Zheng scored 7 consecutive points, Shanghai successfully reversed the score to 15-8. At the end of the first quarter, Shanghai led 36-22.
After entering the second quarter of the game, although the Guangdong team has been desperately defending, the shooting rate of the Shanghai team is indeed too high. After the start of the second quarter, Franklin hit two consecutive three-pointers, followed by a foul outside the three-point line, and all three free throws gave Shanghai a 50-33 lead over Guangdong.
After Franklin hit his third free throw, the game was still fixed at 8 minutes and 11 seconds, in other words, in the first 16 minutes of the first half, Guangdong was slashed by Shanghai for 50 points. This is not at all the state and defensive intensity that the defending champion of the past three seasons should have.
Obviously, Du Feng must be very dissatisfied with the state of the Guangdong team, but even if he shouted two times in a row to pause, he still could not change the fiery feel of the Shanghai team. Although the Guangdong team was replaced by the UAE League and Ledo, there was still not much change in the defensive end, and it still failed to restrain the opponent.