The fifth round of the CBA League, according to the schedule Shandong High Speed will host the challenge of the Jilin Siberian Tigers, according to the current ranking, the first four rounds of competition, the two teams are two wins and two losses, Jilin ranked ninth, Shandong ranked tenth. It's a no-brainer. Last season, the two teams played four games in the regular season, and the result was also two wins and two losses. However, the days of both teams this season are good, and fans are quite critical of the record, especially the Jilin Siberian Tigers, who were beaten by North Control in the second round and lost a bit. The team's two-win opponents are only the two fish belly teams of Tongxi and Ningbo, and the Shandong Expressway is not far from being smart, and the two-win opponents are Beikong and Tongxi. From this point of view, the two teams can also be regarded as the same disease.
Compared with the opponent Jilin Siberian Tigers, Shandong Expressway is more like a brand new team this season, the owner has changed, the manager has also changed, and the owner has changed from the king of Mountains and East China to Shandong Expressway, and there is money! No more unpaid wages! The manager changed from Gong Xiaobin, the King of Runaway, to Xu Changsuo, one of the Five Tiger Generals, and from Wang to General, the grade was somewhat lowered. The overall state of the team has also decreased a lot, losing to Liao Basket and Guangsha, and the difficult victory over Tongxi has made the fans feel quite uneasy. That's clearly not what last season's playoff four teams looked like.
Of course, compared with the opponent Jilin Siberian Tigers, Shandong's inner line advantage is obvious, and MVP Tao Hanlin is in good shape in the first week of this season, averaging 23.3 points, 13.3 rebounds and 1.75 assists and 1.25 blocks per game. Against a team with a weak internal line like Jilin, it is estimated that it will be a performance of overturning the river and the sea, so what kind of data Tao Hanlin can play has also become the biggest attraction. However, for Tao Hanlin, he has played a little more time this season, averaging nearly 40 minutes per game, and he is complaining that he is a little tired. The pressure of the new coach Xu Changsuo is somewhat large, and the substitute players are used less, basically relying on the main forces such as Tao Hanlin and Gao Shiyan. In the last game against Tongxi, Ding Yanyuhang, who returned from injury, played 41 minutes. This is evident. The shortage of employees behind the Shandong Expressway is estimated to become a reality. The main reason is that Xu Changsuo does not know and trust other players enough, such as Liu Yi in the regular rotation last season, and Qiao Wenhan who joined this season, which is originally a strong immediate combat force, but Xu Changsuo is difficult to trust them.
Of course, in this game, if the Shandong team wants to win in addition to Tao Hanlin's play, the important point also depends on Xiaoding's presence state, Shandong team won two games, Xiaoding scored 19 points and 34 points respectively. He shot 14 three-pointers in both games, and Shandong Expressway shot a total of 24 three-pointers in these two games. Xiao Ding alone accounted for 58%. In the four rounds of the game, Shandong Expressway only shot 34 three-pointers, Xiaoding shot a total of 15, the current situation is that a team lacks pitchers outside, and The second Xiaoding has become the only pitcher that can be relied on. Therefore, if the Shandong team wants to win over Xiaoding's three points, it will become another life-saving straw. He is also the key to whether the Shandong Expressway can win this game.
The second problem is the tactical problem, in the past two seasons, shandong team under the leadership of Gong Xiaobin, formed a defensive counterattack tactic based on defense, the team accelerated significantly, and achieved good results, but this season Xu Changsuo came, Shandong high-speed whether defensive or counterattack is difficult to find. The team's attack and defense are more chaotic, and the slow-paced position battle has re-emerged, which is also the main reason why the Shandong team is passive at present. In fact, if you simply look at the record, two wins and two losses are basically normal, losing to Liao Basket and Guangsha is not unacceptable, and now the fans can not accept the content of the game, playing too passively. To paraphrase a common saying: the team didn't play something, and the fans watched it painfully.
Of course, for the current Shandong Expressway, the most important thing is the spirit, the team enters a new stage, there is a painful period is inevitable, this time as long as the spirit is not scattered there is not much problem, but the first four games, the spirit of the Shandong team does not have cohesion, the four rounds of war last season's rebounding top three teams, this season has become the third to last, defensive efficiency is also ranked last, only higher than Tianjin and Ningbo. Last season, Shandong was still in the top four. In front of the league are the league's top three Guangdong Hongyuan, Liaoning Basket and Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent. This huge gap in statistics can also reflect the mental state of the current team. A team with no defense and no rebounds, I am afraid it is difficult to get involved with strong teams.
In any case, for Shandong Expressway, this game can not be lost, this stage is also the best opportunity for Shandong team to get points, if you can't get points on such an opponent, then the results of the first stage are very ugly.