The CBA playoffs continue to play today, with a total of two games, namely the Shandong Expressway away challenge Shenzhen Marco Polo, which starts at 3 p.m., and the Beijing Shougang home game against the Jilin Siberian Tigers, which starts at night.
Shandong High-speed away challenge Shenzhen Marco Polo, purely according to the ranking, the gap between the sixth and eleventh places is still very obvious, but the Lushen battle is considered by many media fans to be one of the most suspenseful matches in the play-off four groups. The main reason is still on the shandong highway side. Although the First Shandong Expressway ranks eleventh, in fact, the real reason is not how big the team's staffing is. The team lineup is still a stable lineup during the playoffs final four last season, and compared with last season's paper strength has increased unabated, on the one hand, Tao Hanlin and other cores have played more maturely, on the other hand, after the introduction of Qiao Wenhan and Liu Guancen, as well as the return of Xiaoding, the position shortcomings have been strengthened. The overall third line of the team lineup is more balanced.
The main reason for the decline in performance is the team's change of coach, coach Xu Changsuo is not only a rookie, but also completely broke the mature defensive counterattack tactical system created by Shandong last season after haste to play. The team played loosely. At the same time, because the manager lacks understanding not only of the various opponents of the CBA, the tactics are poorly targeted, but also the lack of understanding of the team itself. As a result, the team has been in the process of running in, and the employment of personnel is also three or four. The team's role-player portfolio has been in turmoil. The team's strength is not fully pinched.
The biggest difference between the playoffs and the regular season is that the opponent is a very clear series, the team's tactics are highly targeted, eliminating the trouble brought by the replacement of the opponent, the tactical pertinence depends on the degree of study of the opponent by the manager, although Shandong High Speed has faced many poor opponents this season, Waterloo has led to the original some of the sending teams to turn around and make a revolution. However, he also played some turnaround battles, facing the Shanghai Sharks, Zhejiang Guangsha, Chouzhou Golden Rent, Guanghong Far East, Beijing Shougang and other strong teams also played a good game process and results. From the perspective of Xu Changsuo's personal characteristics, tactical pertinence is his strength, and his weakness lies in his on-the-spot response ability.
And Shenzhen is not a team with strong adaptability on the spot. At the same time, although the team coach Qiu Biao is the best manager candidate, in fact, his own ability is not very strong. This season, when the core of the team, Shen Zijie, was plagued by injuries, he led the team to seven games and six losses, and the real level can be imagined. Therefore, in the battle of Lushen, Shandong team is not without the opportunity and strength of the upset, the key is to do a good job of themselves and come up with the competitive state of last season. As long as the manager does not drop the chain, it is still very promising to play the advantages when Lu Zhishen returns
The Game of Jilin Siberian Tigers away to Beijing Shougang in the evening, although it is only the seventh and tenth league matches, the difference in strength from the ranking is not huge, but many people are not optimistic about the Jilin Siberian Tigers, the reason is of course not the difference in the lineup of single foreign aid against four foreign aid, although Beijing Shougang is the only team equipped with four foreign aid this season, but if there is much advantage in foreign aid, I am afraid that Beijing Shougang's seventh ranking is not much convincing.
Jilin team continues to use a single foreign aid Jones, there are economic reasons, but more is that they uphold the principle of good steel used in the blade, the CBA's foreign aid use is four foreign aid four times, single section single rule, foreign aid has been unable to join hands to fight, if the foreign aid personal ability is not enough, even the four foreign aid is basically useless, and if the single foreign aid ability is strong, such as Jones and Moldy this season, it can bring the team a very strong instant combat power, especially for many teams that have no intention of competing for the championship. This is actually a very suitable choice (of course, such foreign aid can not be sought).
The main reason why public opinion is not optimistic about the Jilin team is of course not the giant killer identity of the Jilin Siberian Tigers, nor is it the record and state of their third stage of the league 8 wins and 2 losses, in fact, the real reason is from the jilin team's own lineup shortcomings, the Siberian Tigers themselves have huge defects in the lineup, the Siberian Tigers are an economic-oriented running team, although the internal shortcomings have been known to the world, but the team has not had any reinforcement, the main reason is not that the team does not have this will, but the pocket is shy. This is still very different from a single foreign aid.
And Beijing Shougang is precisely the strongest team in the league, the inside line Li Muhao, Fan Ziming's inner line twin towers are immediate combat strength, especially the young fan Ziming, this season's progress is obvious, has evolved into the league regular season MVP candidate list. In addition, there is the big foreign aid Hamilton and the powerful cannon fodder type interior line Qiu Tian. Comparatively speaking, these are the unbearable weights of the Jilin Siberian tigers. The reason why the regular season was double-killed by the opponent and the performance was that there was no way to fight back, there was an excuse that Jones was in general condition, but the real reason was the lineup configuration of the nature. Looking back at the Jilin team's game, any team that encounters a stronger inside line is in a state of restraint. Therefore, for the Jilin Siberian Tigers, meeting Shougang is like the tiger meeting Wu Song, which is a natural bitter master. It makes sense that the victory is not large.