On February 24, Beijing time, there were only 4 days left before the start of the third stage. The Liaoning men's basketball team actively prepared for the game and made full use of the remaining precious time to run into the lineup. The Liaoning men's basketball team played quite well in the first two stages. In the 28 rounds of games that have ended, the Liaoning men's basketball team has a record of 25 wins and 3 losses, ranking firmly at the top of the standings and two wins ahead of the second Shanghai team.
As we all know, the third stage of the CBA has been determined in two divisions - Foshan and Shenyang. The Liaoning team is divided into Shenyang divisions, and the Liaoning team that plays at home will be more concerned. As the league leader and the favourite to win the championship, Liaoning must maintain its current form and ranking, and the ten games in the third stage are likely to affect the final ranking. In addition, the Liaoning team, which has not played at home for more than two years, definitely hopes to dedicate more exciting games to its hometown fathers and elders. For two reasons, the Liaoning men's basketball team attaches great importance to the remaining final games. Including veterans such as Dahan and Li Xiaoxu, as well as injured players such as Zhang Zhenlin and Guo Allen, all the members of Liaoning Basket have entered the training state since the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, and have gone all out with all their might.
Near the opening match of the third phase, the official social media account of Liaoning Basketball has also begun to come alive, and they actively share the training status of the team and the video of the new trainers guiding the players. At noon today, the team released a five-minute video. In the video, Yang Ming, the coach of the Liaoning team, accepted an interview with reporters and summarized the team's preparations, injuries, goals, expectations, and other aspects, which can also be regarded as a bottom for the hometown father and elder in advance.
Yang Ming first talked about injuries. He said: "The team is still facing a lot of injuries. After all, the team is no longer a young team, and injuries are difficult to completely avoid. Daehan and Jang Jin-lin, two "seriously" wounded, still haven't fully recovered. Now it's time to recover while practicing. He also pointed out in particular that Zhang Zhenlin's foot was still relatively seriously injured. This was indeed unexpected. Looking back at Zhang Zhenlin's injury against Xinjiang, I feel that I can recover in a month at most, and now it seems that we have misassessed the injury situation, perhaps because Zhang Zhenlin is the first time in his career, so the recovery progress is indeed relatively slow.
And Daehan's injury does not need to be repeated, as the saying goes: a hundred days of injury, Daehan may need a longer recovery time. In addition to the "old wounded" such as Dahan and Jin Jin, Yang Ming also revealed that Li Xiaoxu and Guo Allen suffered new injuries of varying degrees. Although it is not indicated what the specific injury is, the above four people are not in 100% competitive state anyway. In fact, all this is both unexpected and reasonable. Professional players and injuries are always in the shadows, which requires Yang Ming to arrange a reasonable training plan, and individual players should not rush to challenge the large-load training beyond the current physical limit.
When it comes to the goals and expectations of the third stage, Yang Ming expressed it very rigorously. He said that although there are only ten games, they will not despise any opponent, and the reality is not as the outside world says: "Of the ten opponents, only Shanghai and Zhejiang are more difficult." He thinks every team should be valued and a little bit of relaxation could be at a loss. Finally, he thanked all parties for enabling the team to achieve its desire to play at home, and hoped that the fans could support liaoning more.
Overall, Yang Ming's speech is still relatively realistic, the team's record is good, but it cannot be relaxed. Not to mention whether losing will affect the rankings. Judging from the second stage of the game alone, there are many places where Liaoning basketball needs to be improved now. For example, the problem of insufficient scoring explosive power of double foreign aid, the lack of ability to make a final decision at key moments, which pitcher is more trustworthy, etc., these problems need to be completely solved and improved in actual combat. Therefore, I hope that Liaoning Basket can play every game well in the third stage, run in well, and find more chemical reactions. Be fully prepared for the playoffs, because winning in the regular season is not a win, and the playoffs can laugh until the end is the real consummation.