The debut of the third stage of the CBA regular season, Guangdong team defeated Shandong team 127-101, sweeping away the decline of the second stage. With direct replenishment of personnel and body, the defending champions have also regained their confidence.
With 5 minutes and 29 seconds left in the third quarter, weems and Yi Jianlian's air connection line helped Guangdong lead by 22 points and directly stopped Shandong. Taking advantage of the suspension of the Shandong team, Guangdong coach Du Feng chose a wide range of substitutions. Du Feng greeted, Hu Mingxuan, Lai Duo, Zeng Fanri, Tang Jie and Ren Junfei on the bench led the appearance, Yi Jianlian, Zhou Peng, Xu Jie, Du Runwang and Weimus were replaced, and the Guangdong team's "five up and five down" reappeared.
In the past, "five up and five down" was no stranger to the Guangdong team, and even du Feng often used the substitution strategy. And in the entire CBA, the team that dares to frequently go up and down is almost only one team in Guangdong. Du Feng did this not to reflect how terrible the depth of the Guangdong team is, nor to show his difference, but to ensure that the two sets of squads can better distribute physical fitness, to ensure that the players on the field can invest unreservedly at both ends of the attack and defense, and to maximize the strength of the Guangdong team at both ends of the attack and defense. Of course, another reason for Du Feng to do this is to increase the number of opportunities to play, so as to train young players.
But this season, such substitutions are extremely rare for Guangdong team. In the first stage of the regular season, Guangdong's foreign aid was not in place, and Yi Jianlian had just returned from the serious injury of Achilles tendon rupture last season and needed frequent rotations, so the Guangdong team could not use the five-on-five substitution strategy. In the second stage, foreign aid Weems returned to the team, and new foreign aid Ledo also joined the team in the second half of the second stage, but Zhao Rui, Zhang Haojia, Zhang Hao and Su Wei's serious injuries, as well as the fatigue and old injuries of many main players, still limited the substitution of The Guangdong team, resulting in Du Feng still difficult to achieve a five-on-five rotation. Not only was it impossible to achieve, but the Guangdong team even had a situation where the use of personnel was stretched, so much so that Du Feng joked that "no one comes again, and Zhu Fangyu and I will sign up." ”
After a month of intermittent rest, coupled with the official signing of substitute defender Tang Jie in the window period, the Guangdong team finally bid farewell to the difficulty of employing people in the third stage. In this match with Shandong, Guangdong sent 12 players, and all of them scored. Except for veteran Su Wei and young player Zhao Jinyang, who played in single digits, the other 10 people played more than 13 minutes. At the same time, due to the relatively early one-sidedness of the game, coupled with Du Feng's strict control over the player's playing time, no one in Guangdong has played 30 minutes, which also ensures the physical distribution of the whole team and leaves enough space for subsequent matches.
With more adequate rotation, the Guangdong team's performance in all aspects was significantly different from the second stage. In the second stage, the poor Guangdong team lost many times, and even had almost no strength to fight back when they were killed by Liaoning and Guangsha, and when facing some teams of average strength, the performance of Guangdong team also had ups and downs, which was very different from the invincible king's division in the past three seasons, which is why they only ranked 5th in the league after the second stage, and even failed to lock up the playoff qualification in advance.
In this match with Shandong, Guangdong started with a 14-2 attack wave. After the Shandong team narrowed the point difference, the Guangdong team, which had declined in hand, still relied on the rotation lineup to open the point difference again. More adequate personnel rotation ensures the strength of the Guangdong team on the defensive end, which is also the main reason why the Guangdong team can take the initiative in the first half. In the second half, Yi Jianlian and other main players played more and more excellent on the one hand, and when in the third quarter, when Du Feng used the five-on-five substitution tactic, the second team of the Guangdong team also did not disappoint, still helping the team maintain a lead of about 20 points.
Playing in the last quarter, when Yi Jianlian changed the field in the last 6 and a half minutes, Zhou Peng and other main players were also replaced one after another, and the second team of the Guangdong team still maintained a 25-point lead for the team. In the end, Guangdong team exploded a record 127 points this season, and this is also the first time that Guangdong team has scored 120+ points this season. In the second stage, the Second Team of Guangdong team performed poorly, and the performance of young players wasting opportunities even triggered the dissatisfaction of the team's veterans, and Du Feng once criticized the team's young players at the post-match press conference. But in this game, the performance of the second team of the Guangdong team has improved significantly.
The strength of the Shandong team is indeed not strong, but as far as the Guangdong team is concerned, this is not the strongest of them. Wiems, who scored 15 points and 10 assists on 5-of-10 shooting, still has not found his strongest offensive form, and the cooperation between Ledo, Tang Jie and the team still has a lot of room for improvement. Moreover, Zhou Peng, who also scored 15 points on 5-of-10 shooting, did not exert his full strength. In addition, Guangdong's main defender Zhao Rui did not play in this game, but watched from the sidelines. And substitute center Zhang Hao has not yet returned. In the future, with the comeback of Zhao Rui and the further improvement of the tacit understanding of the whole team, the Guangdong team can become more outstanding.
As far as the third stage of the schedule is concerned, Guangdong does not have a particularly strong opponent, which also provides a better foundation for them to improve their records and rankings. If they can avoid a light enemy, the Guangdong team even has the opportunity to end with a total victory of 10 battles in the third stage. Although the initiative to compete for the top four in the regular season is not in their own hands, in view of the fact that the top four teams have to fight each other in the third stage, Liaoning team's first game in the third stage of the first game was a cold defeat to Qingdao team to regenerate the suspense of the CBA ranking, for this reason, the third stage looks to become obviously different Guangdong team, as long as they continue to go solidly, they will return to the top four and directly enter the quarterfinals There is still no small possibility.
With a big win in the first game of the third stage, and with the reuse of five up and five down this game, the defending champions who have returned to the road have once again become confident.