As the Shanghai men's basketball team and the Guangsha men's basketball team advanced to the CBA playoff final four, the CBA playoff semifinals were all produced. Starting on the 12th, the Guangdong men's basketball team will play against the Liaoning men's basketball team, and the Shanghai men's basketball team will face off with the Guangsha men's basketball team, playing the CBA playoff semifinals in a 5-3-win system. Under the 5-3-win format, all teams have more room to adjust. Below, let's look forward to the four major points of view of the CBA playoff semifinals.
Highlight 1:
Can Li Chunjiang complete the counterattack?
This season, Li Chunjiang led the new Shanghai men's basketball team at full speed. In the regular season, it achieved an impressive record of 28 wins and 10 losses, ranking third in the league. This heavily funded team has reached the first stage of the league. However, the Shanghai men's basketball team wants to pass the Guangsha men's basketball team next, which is not an easy task.
For Hu Jinqiu, Sun Minghui, Zhao Yanhao and other local talents of the Guangsha men's basketball team, Li Chunjiang has the grace of knowing, and this group of young people has grown into star players under the cultivation of Li Chunjiang. However, at the end of 2020, Li Chunjiang left class due to poor results in leading the team. Now, Li Chunjiang has switched to the Shanghai men's basketball team to prove himself.
For the Guangsha men's basketball team, Li Chunjiang is very familiar with it. In addition, Liu Zheng, who was introduced by the Shanghai men's basketball team with high salaries, also knows the roots of the Guangsha men's basketball team. Can Li Chunjiang prove himself in front of his old owner? Noteworthy.
Highlight 2:
Can Hu Jinqiu show the value of MVP?
With his outstanding performance in the regular season stage, this season, the 24-year-old Hu Jinqiu was elected as the CBA regular season MVP for the first time. Facing the Jilin men's basketball team in the first round of the playoffs, he averaged 19.5 points and 8 rebounds per game, and his performance remained stable. This time to meet the shanghai men's basketball team with stronger internal strength, Hu Jinqiu can show the value of MVP? Noteworthy.
Unlike the Jilin men's basketball team, which has weak internal strength, the Shanghai men's basketball team has a strong configuration inside. The inner line of the Shanghai men's basketball team, which was formed with Wang Zhelin, Ren Junwei and Feng Lai as the team, had an advantage in eliminating the Shenzhen men's basketball team. Wang Zhelin, 28, has already contributed his career-best playoff performance in the confrontation with the Shenzhen men's basketball team. In the face of Strong Interior Line such as Wang Zhelin, Hu Jinqiu's performance on the inside line will be the lifeline of the Guangsha Men's Basketball Team.
Highlight 3:
Does the Guangdong men's basketball team still have the ability to block Liaoning?
Among the teams in the CBA's playoff final four, the Guangdong men's basketball team is the only team that fails to enter the top four in the regular season stage. With the aging of Yi Jianlian and the decline of Weems' state, this team is no longer the former dynasty division, and only achieved 26 wins and 12 losses in the regular season, ranking fifth in the league. Facing the Liaoning men's basketball team this time, do they still have the ability to block the opponent? Get a lot of attention.
Last season, the Guangdong men's basketball team defeated the Liaoning men's basketball team 2-1 in the finals. At that time, the Guangdong men's basketball team, which was not optimistic about the outside world, played its own advantages of old style to the extreme. Under the 3-2-win format, the impatient mentality of the Liaoning men's basketball team that wants to win and is afraid of losing is also fully utilized by the Guangdong men's basketball team.
However, in the confrontation again, the paper strength of the Liaoning men's basketball team has become more and more obvious. In the regular season, the Liaoning men's basketball team won two victories over the Guangdong men's basketball team, winning a total of 32 points. Facing the Liaoning men's basketball team in the regular season, the Guangdong men's basketball team hardly saw any opportunities. Today, Guangdong men's basketball team foreign aid Ledo is plagued by injuries, and Ren Junfei is also injured. If the Guangdong men's basketball team wants to block the Liaoning men's basketball team, it needs Du Feng to use his brain.
Highlight 4:
Can Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei withstand the stalking of Guangdong Sanshao?
There is no doubt that the Liaoning men's basketball team is the most powerful team on paper in the league. In the regular season, they are the first in the league with 32 wins and 6 losses, which is very telling. However, if they want to cross the old enemy of the Guangdong men's basketball team, they first need to be prepared for a duel between the defender line and the opponent.
This season, the Liaoning men's basketball team has obvious advantages in the game, at least need Guo Allen, Zhao Jiwei one of them to play efficiently. When both perform poorly, it is difficult for the Liaoning men's basketball team to win the game. From this perspective, although the Liaoning men's basketball team has strong competitiveness in all positions, Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei are still indispensable forces for the team to win.
Facing the Guangdong men's basketball team, the attack launch point of the Liaoning men's basketball team will encounter strong resistance. With the age of Yi Jianlian, the core competitiveness of the Guangdong men's basketball team at this stage is no longer Yi Jianlian, but the sudden acceleration of the three young people in the backcourt at both ends of the attack and defense. When Xu Jie, Hu Mingxuan and Zhao Rui came out of the tough frontcourt to press, most teams habitually made mistakes. Whether Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei can occupy an advantage in front of the three youngsters in the Guangdong men's basketball team, at least not suppressed, will directly affect the promotion prospects of the Liaoning men's basketball team.
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