On the evening of April 16, Beijing time, the third leg of the 2022 CBA semifinals continued, and in a focus battle in the upper half, the champion Liaoning men's basketball team and the defending champion Guangdong men's basketball team once again staged a strong dialogue. In the first two rounds, Liaoning, which relied on teamwork, led Guangdong by a large score of 2:0. As a result, the main Liaoning team will win one more game and they will advance to the finals early. But as the defending champion, the Guangdong team will not give up lightly. In the end, with the joint efforts of the whole team, Liaoning defeated Guangdong 117:116 and entered the finals by winning three consecutive games. Although the defeated Guangdong team did not have the opportunity to defend their title, their performance was good enough!
Both sides have played a high level of technical and tactical skills in the previous two semi-finals, and the Liaoning men's basketball team, which has a better comprehensive strength, won the game with a 13-point advantage. In the third round, the Liaoning team held the match point, while the Guangdong team had reached the edge of the cliff. Before the game, the biggest concern of the outside world is not who wins and who loses, but who can put aside all distractions from the two teams. If the Guangdong team loses again, they will be directly eliminated, so if they want to win back a city in the third leg, head coach Du Feng and the team members will definitely break the boat and go all out.
In contrast, the Liaoning team has stepped into the final door with one foot, but in the strong dialogue, until the last moment, the final result can never be predicted. The first two games of the Liaoning team are big scores, the third round, whether the players can swing the mentality, continue to play steadily, need to play a question mark. Once the Liaoning team played conservatively on the field, the Guangdong team was not without the opportunity to fight back. From the starting lineup, Guangdong men's basketball coach Du Feng is obviously prepared, the main players Zhou Peng and Ledo did not play, but Tang Jie was accidentally selected for the 12-man list. Many fans speculate that this may be a secret weapon of Du Feng.
After the game began, the two sides entered the state quickly, and the Guangdong team took advantage of the tacit understanding of Zhao Rui and Yi Jianlian to take the lead. Subsequently, the two teams began to threaten on the outside, Hu Mingxuan hit a three-point shot, and Zhang Zhenlin of the Liaoning team was also not willing to show weakness, and returned the opponent with a beautiful three-pointer. In the first two quarters of the game, the various firepower points of the Guangdong team were stimulated, and the head coach Du Feng made frequent clever moves in the platoon, in addition to Yi Jianlian, Xu Jie, Tang Jie, Zhao Rui and Wang Xiankai scored many times on the inside and outside lines, and the Liaoning team has been struggling to catch up with the score. After the first half, Guangdong led Liaoning by 10 points, which was the first time since the semi-finals that Guangdong had achieved a double-digit lead.
In the second half of the game, the Guangdong team continued to achieve multi-point blossoming, while the Liaoning team appeared to be a little impatient on the field, and Guo Allen's outside line was not good, and the Guangdong team repeatedly grabbed the rebound. Relying on Zhao Rui's breakthrough and Xu Jie's long-range shot, Guangdong continued to maintain the lead of the score. In the final quarter, Liaoning tried to speed up the attack, and after hitting a three-pointer, Liaoning narrowed the score to 6 points. In the final stage of the game, Zhao Jiwei cleverly assisted, Zhang Zhenlin hit a three-point shot, and the Guangdong team countered the score. Subsequently, Guangdong team scored 5 consecutive points and drew with Liaoning team to enter extra time. In the extra time stage, the Liaoning team did not miss the opportunity to win this peak showdown with difficulty.
(Luo Treasurer)