No one can think that this season's Shanxi men's basketball team can suffer serious loss of personnel, and even the coaching staff have been changed, can maintain a stronger competitiveness than previous seasons, after the former meritorious coach Yang Xuezeng once again took charge of the team's coaching whip, Shanxi regained the once proud "running bomb system" in the regular season They locked a playoff ticket early with a record of 23 wins and 15 losses, and the first round of the playoffs encountered another dark horse Guangzhou men's basketball team with both attack and defense.
Although the Shanxi men's basketball team is indeed offensively strong and weak in the regular season (the offensive efficiency of 118.6 ranks second in the league, and the defensive efficiency ranks 13th in the league with 113.2), in the third stage, in order to prepare for the playoffs, they specially signed free agent Zhang Chunjun, who once coached Yang Xuezeng to shine in the best blue collar, although after joining the team, the average score of only 3.8 points per game is not remarkable, but it is such an underdog, but in the first round of the playoffs to the Guangzhou men's basketball team to a downside. It is worth mentioning that the two managers of Shanxi and Guangzhou this time are the champions who once fought each other in the 16-year finals, and yang Xuezeng led the Sichuan men's basketball team, which had just been promoted to the CBA for only 3 years, to win the Liaoning men's basketball team led by Guo Shiqiang 4-1 in the finals, and in that finals, Zhang Chunjun played the role of a strange soldier.
Zhang Chunjun, who returned to Yang Xuezeng's command this time, really reappeared in the first playoff game of Shanxi and Guangzhou, once again the influence of the 16-year finals, although Guangzhou did show a strong competitiveness in the regular season, but in the playoffs, in the face of Zhang Chunjun, the defensive toughman, Guangzhou's number one backcourt core Chen Yingjun and the forward core Zhu Mingzhen were completely inaccurate, the two joined hands in the first game a total of 27 in 9, the shooting rate was only 30%, on the contrary, Zhang Chunjun, in the case of completely limiting the offensive arrows of these two Guangzhous, With an efficient accuracy of 4 of 7, he quietly scored 12 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal, and since he last scored 12+ in the playoffs, it was 6 years ago for Sichuan in the finals against Liaoning.
There is an old treasure in the family, in the playoffs, which is very dependent on the veteran stage, Zhang Chunjun, who has sufficient experience in the competition, did catch Guangzhou by surprise, although he is 34 years old, but Zhang Chunjun's innate defensive ability has not really faded, since leaving the Sichuan men's basketball team in 17 years, Zhang Chunjun has successively moved to Shandong and Shanghai, and can rely on excellent defensive ability to gain a foothold in the team. If he continues to show this kind of offensive and defensive influence in the next game, Shanxi is really likely to play a dark horse role in this playoff trip.
If Shanxi really kills Guangzhou, in the 1/4 final, Yang will also usher in 16 years of old liaoning men's basketball team, for this team he can be said to be very familiar with, in this season's regular season, Shanxi once won a victory against Liaoning, to know that the team did not have Zhang Chunjun, there was no Simmons, if it really clashed again, Shanxi with strong offensive firepower, and Zhang Chunjun, the defensive toughster, if you really blacken Liaoning, do not be surprised.