Just tonight, the CBA Finals will kick off, the regular season champion and runner-up Liaoning and Guangsha Peak Sword, compared with four years ago, Liaoning is still the dominant side, is generally optimistic about the outside world, but Guangsha really can not stage a miracle?
Four years ago, Guangsha Sanshao Hu Jinqiu, Zhao Yanhao and Sun Minghui only played CBA for three years, with unlimited potential but still showing their infancy. "Braided Brother" Fortson has good offensive power but limited stature, and the experienced foreign aid Bolosis can be seriously degraded. Although the team soul Lin Zhijie is at the peak, he can grab five and seven consecutively in the series, making the physical strength of the "beast" disappear.
At that time, Liaoning was like a day in the sky, after two consecutive finals, their desire to win the championship was very strong, Guo Allen, Zhao Jiwei, Han Dejun, Hudson, Bath, etc. had no injury troubles, and each position almost had the upper hand over Guangsha, and Liaoning semi-finals 4-1 light guangdong, physically not as big as Guangsha consumed. Therefore, in the end, Liaoning swept Guangsha to win the first championship in team history is not too unexpected.
Four years later, Guangsha is still not optimistic, but this time it is not that the team itself is not weak, but that it has suffered a very serious injury. In the third stage of the season, the former NBA "Flower Exploration Show" Okafor joined, and his twin towers with St. H.O.K. MVP Hu Jinqiu were enough to compete with any strong team, while sharing the defensive pressure of Daqiu, which made the shooting of Guangsha outside players more and more confident. As a result, Guangsha achieved a good result of 9 wins and 1 loss in the third stage, successively killing two of the top four teams in Shanghai and Zhejiang, the sworn enemy of the same city, and once climbed to the top of the standings.
In the playoffs, Guangsha swept the "Giant Killer" Jilin 2-0, but just when the second win of the semifinals was in hand and the match point was in hand, an accident occurred: Franklin had a very accidental impact, causing Hu Jinqiu's spleen to bleed, and he was reimbursed for this season. The leak in the house coincided with overnight rain, Zhao Yanhao was sent to the hospital for examination due to concussion in the third half of the semifinals, and just when people still had a glimmer of hope for him to play in the finals, Guangsha officials announced that Zhao Yanhao was hospitalized for at least two weeks for observation due to intracranial hemorrhage, and was also reimbursed for the same season after Hu Jinqiu.
Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao both missed the finals, making the heavy responsibility of Guangsha's offense almost all on the shoulders of Sun Minghui, a powerful defender who shot a career-high 40.5% from three-point shooting this season and tied a career-high 45 points in the third game of the semifinals! When Shanghai chased the score to the level, it was Sun Minghui who turned the tide and helped Guangsha to complete the sweep and advance to the finals.
Sun Minghui is brave enough to average 27 points per game in the playoffs so far, ranking first among all local players, but he will meet Liaoning, which has a luxurious defender line in the finals. It is conceivable that Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei will take turns to defend Sun Minghui, and Ferge, Liu Zhixuan and even Zhang Zhenlin can also assist in defending or single-handedly defending Sun Minghui, and at the same time, Sun Minghui will face the constant impact of opponents. Liaoning will go all out to consume Sun Minghui and achieve the purpose of strangling the launch point of Guangsha's attack, at this time, how much pressure other players in Guangsha's outside line can share for Sun Minghui will be the key to how long they can compete with Liaoning.
In addition, in terms of the internal line, in order to find a qualified substitute for Han Dejun, in the past two years, Liaoning has recruited everywhere, Fu Hao and Zhu Rongzhen have joined one after another, coupled with the comeback of Li Xiaoxu, the rise of Wu Changze, and Zhang Zhenlin can also swing to line four, so that the depth of Liaoning's inner line is in a single gear in the whole league. Especially with the arrival of Moland this season, Liaoning has the strength to crush Guangdong's inner line, sweeping the defending champion 3-0 in the semifinals, Moland beat Su Wei, Zeng Fanri, and pressured Yi Jianlian, which has explained everything.
So in the absence of Hu Jinqiu, Okafor will become the biggest reliance on Guangsha's internal line, Wang Bo tried the combination of Okafor and Xu Zhonghao in the third game of the semifinals, but the height is increased, the speed is slower, so how to deal with Liaoning's small lineup will test the best coach Wang Bo this season. In addition, Jones also needs to give fire support after Okafor leaves the game, if the offensive end can not be shot, the defense is already weak, his help for the team will be very limited, and Guangsha will be very passive.
In short, in the face of absolute strength, it is very difficult for Guangsha to become the new king in the following grams, but the meal must be eaten bite by bite, and the game must be played one by one, and Liaoning wants to reunite the old dream is not as easy as imagined, after all, they have eaten the loss of being optimistic many times and losing the victory.