On the afternoon of April 1, Beijing time, the 2021-22 CBA playoffs kicked off as scheduled in Nanchang, Jiangxi. The playoff 12-in-8 game took the lead in the defending champion Guangdong men's basketball team and this year's regular season dark horse Tianjin men's basketball team. The Guangdong men's basketball team, ranked fifth in the regular season, showed the temperament and posture of the defending champion in the first game, and finally defeated the Tianjin men's basketball team 124-101, leading 1-0 on aggregate.
In the evening, another match was played by the eighth-ranked Guangzhou men's basketball team against the ninth-ranked Shanxi men's basketball team. With the 20-point advantage established in the first quarter, the Shanxi men's basketball team successfully defeated the Guangzhou men's basketball team 120-101 to achieve a good start, leading 1-0 on aggregate.
Weems hit 100% of the time, Guangdong is in full bloom
Guangdong can win easily, and Guangdong foreign aid Sowems should be the first to win. Wiems swept away the slump in the regular season, shooting a team-high 27 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists on 11-of-11 shooting, with a plus-minus of a game-high +39. What's even more frightening is that this is all done in just 24 minutes.
Before the game started, Weems updated a Weibo post, he wrote: "4 years and 3 crowns! The playoffs start today, to 5 years and 4 crowns! This season, Weems, who has turned 35, has seen a decline in competitive status compared to the previous three seasons, and statistically, he has averaged less than 15 points per game and is not as efficient as ever. So, at first, people just took this microblog as a routine, but they didn't think that it was a fuse that Weems broke out.
After the game began, Weems was aggressive on the offensive end, first winning the mid-range jump shot, then receiving a pass from Yi Jianlian and chasing the jump shot. In the first quarter, Weems scored 8 points on 4-of-4 shooting in just 6 minutes. In the second quarter of the game, Guangdong told Tianjin what is called playoff experience and what is called championship heritage. Guangdong suddenly strengthened its defense, Tianjin could not score in the opening quarter of 3 and a half minutes, instead Zhao Rui and Xu Jie took turns to play, leading Guangdong to a wave of 11-0, Guangdong 41-25 ahead of Tianjin.
Weems saw that his teammates felt hot and willingly became a green leaf, scoring 4 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist in 5 minutes. On 6-of-6 shooting in the first half, Weems completely removed the camouflage of the regular season. Showdown, I'm FMVP! The playoffs are the stage for the "full power". However, even though Weems felt good to the point, head coach Du Feng still played 5 minutes to replace Weems to save his physical strength. Du Feng, who has rich experience in reversing, knows that the first two quarters of the lead may be false, and the third quarter of the Tianjin team is the most noteworthy.
The reason why there were many voices in the outside world before the game was largely due to the change in the rules of foreign aid use in this year's playoffs. Since in the past, CBA league foreign aid was used in accordance with the rule of 4 quarters and 4 persons in the playoffs, but this year's league manual did not specifically indicate this article. After Tianjin discovered this omission in the rule, it argued that the rule for the use of foreign aid in this year's playoffs had become 4 sessions and 5 people. Tianjin played a long winning streak in the third stage of the regular season, breaking into the playoffs as a dark horse, and the "double foreign aid" combination of Rochester and Kenny Burton sent in the third quarter was the killer of Tianjin's victory.
When talking about the changes in foreign aid policies, Du Feng can't help but feel that "this change is a bit much and faster." As the saying goes, soldiers will come to cover the water. Du Feng left Weems this piece of "good steel" until the third quarter, "full strength Wei" continued to maintain high efficiency, after the middle shot was successful, he shot a three-point shot on the outside line, and even shots with a burst, scoring 8 points in a single quarter. Zhao Rui, Xu Jie, Hu Mingxuan took turns to play, under the strict defense of the three of them, Rochester and Burton in the third quarter together only scored a pitiful 5 points, these 5 points are Burton's, Rochester only received 3 assists in a single quarter, the third quarter of the single quarter score of Guangdong 32-23 Tianjin. Guangdong established a huge lead of about 20 points and finally successfully closed the game.
After the game, Du Feng believed that the key to winning was defense. He believes that the Tianjin team has distinct characteristics, especially the outside projection ability is in the front of the whole league, and the Guangdong team has made a lot of difficult preparations. 'The defensive side was well done, especially in the first half of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters, and controlled the opponent well.
At 19:35 on April 3, Guangdong and Tianjin will start their second match.
Yang Guo Dou Fa, Yang Xuezeng took the lead
Guangzhou men's basketball team and Shanxi men's basketball team, one eighth, one ninth, this group of duels is definitely the closest group of several groups of play-offs, and naturally it is also the most interesting group. In the 2015-16 season, the Sichuan men's basketball team coached by Yang Xuezeng defeated Guo Shiqiang's Liaoning men's basketball team with a total score of 4-1 in the finals, winning the CBA championship and becoming the fifth championship team in the history of the CBA. After nearly 6 years, Yang Xuezeng and Guo Shiqiang, two CBA championship coaches, once again fought in the playoffs.
To say that Yang Guidance is really a real person. Why? In the pre-game interview two days ago, Yang Talked about the playoffs against Guangzhou, and he almost put forward the preparations: "Entering the playoffs has completed the set goal, entering the playoffs, since we have reached this step, we must be serious about this pre-game preparation." We certainly don't have any pressure, just let go and fight for it. Offensively, we must play the characteristics, that is, find our own rhythm; defensively, we must have some specific pertinence, especially Chen Yingjun' point of limitation. Finally, Yang also emphasized rebounding, especially defensive rebounding.
Shanxi's arrangement is almost no different from what Yang zhi said, which is a typical Shanxi win-win game. At the beginning of the game, Shanxi grabbed the start, grabbed the rebound, grabbed the offensive opportunity, and pushed the counterattack speed. After a 10-10 draw, Shanxi played a counterattack with consecutive broken balls. Zhang Ning and Yuan Shuai joined forces to score 3 three-pointers, and Shanxi's advantage widened to 14 points. Grabbing the lead and strictly guarding against Chen Yingjun, Shanxi, who was smooth and smooth, scored a 35-15 score in the first quarter.
In the first quarter, the Shanxi team made 7 steals, forcing Guangzhou to make 8 mistakes.
On the Shanxi side, in addition to making mistakes and protecting defensive rebounds, it is also constantly rushing to grab offensive rebounds, and it is not too much to say that this victory was grabbed by Shanxi with rebounds. Statistics show that Shanxi's offensive rebounds have grabbed 22, 10 more than Guangzhou; the number of steals, Shanxi 13-9 ahead of Guangzhou; using mistakes to score Shanxi 26-19.
Shanxi led by up to 28 points, and when talking about the loss, Guo Shiqiang said at the post-match press conference: "We didn't perform well enough in this game. In the playoffs, we didn't do as well as our opponents in physical confrontation, and we didn't play tough enough. Also, our defense wasn't doing well enough. There is also rebounding, so that the opponent grabbed 22 rebounds in the front court, and it is impossible to win. ”
Yan Pengfei and Zhang Chunjun were Shanxi's biggest surprises in this game. Both players have played under Yang Xuezeng's hands, and Yang Xuezeng also knows them well. The first coach of Yan Pengfei's career was Yang Xuezeng, and Zhang Chunjun followed Yang Xuezeng to win the championship in the Sichuan team.
As he grew older, veteran Zhang Chunjun, who was in a state of decline, has gradually faded out of the fans' vision, and once left the CBA to play in the Chinese three-person basketball professional league. But even so, Yang Xuezeng still let the Shanxi men's basketball team sign Zhang Chunjun. Who would have thought that in the first playoff game, the 35-year-old Zhang Chunjun played the style of a veteran, playing 29 minutes and 12 seconds, contributing 12 points and 9 rebounds on 4-of-7 shooting, frantically grabbing 6 offensive rebounds, and fighting until the fourth quarter of leg cramps. At this moment, Zhang Chunjun seems to have returned to the second game of the 2016 finals.
Yan Pengfei singled out 28 points, 9 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 1 block on 11-of-15 shooting. In a post-match sideline interview, Yan Pengfei said: "I don't care how many points I get, I care more about whether we can win this game and do what the coach requires." ”
The narrow road meets the brave to win, this time Shanxi first shines the sword, it depends on how Guangzhou and Guo Shiqiang deal with it next.
At 15:00 on April 3, Shanxi and Guangzhou will start the second competition.