Beijing time on April 20, Guangsha men's basketball team and Liaoning men's basketball team ushered in the first contest of the finals, which is also the two sides since the 17-18 season, once again in the finals to usher in a confrontation, originally this should be a mars hit the earth peak showdown, unfortunately Guangsha in the semi-finals with Shanghai suffered serious injuries, Hu Jinqiu because of spleen rupture season reimbursement, and Zhao Yanhao also because of concussion probability can not usher in a comeback in this round of series, with such a residual formation, Guangsha in a look at the decline, He really showed his tenacious side in the first half.
In the first quarter, Guangsha relied on Okafor's internal attack, only 2 points behind, and in the second quarter, although Liaoning relied on Guo Allen's inside and outside shots, once hit a small shockwave in Guangsha, they still clenched the score, and only 46-49 trailed Liaoning by 3 points at the end of the half, but in the second half, Liaoning suddenly attacked at the end of the third quarter, playing Guangsha a 24-11 in this quarter, thus laying its own lead, and finally took Guangsha lightly at 98-75, achieving a 1-0 lead in the total score.
Due to the reimbursement of the inner core Hu Jinqiu season, Guangsha coach Wang Bo also knows that this finals trip must let the big foreign assistant Okafor brush his presence at both ends of the attack and defense, and at the beginning of the first quarter, Okafor cut 11 points and 5 rebounds with a 9-of-5 accuracy, and in the halftime game, he scored 13 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 expectations in 18 minutes of playing time. One of the scores is also the highest one in the team, the result of the second half of Okafor was completely targeted by Liaoning, the presence at both ends of the attack and defense is almost 0, the whole game is played, Okafor in the 30 minutes of playing time, 13 shots 5, only 15 points and 8 rebounds into the account, that is to say, the entire second half, Okafor shot a total of 3 times, only 2 points.
Okafor, who only joined Guangsha in the third stage of this season with the aura of NBA Tanhualang, did not open the "offensive killer" mode expected by the outside world because of the internal line of Hu Jinqiu and Jarrod Jones. In the 10 games played for Guangsha in the regular season, he averaged only 14.9 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game in 24.8 minutes of playing time, and the technical data can only be said to be decent, but in the playoffs, especially in the semi-finals against the two big men Wang Zhelin and Feng Lai in Shanghai, Okafor can be said to have completely "military training" them both, with his solid basketball basic skills, almost single-handedly destroyed shanghai's seemingly luxurious inner line team. After 3 games, Okafor averaged 14.7 points and 11 rebounds per game, and whenever the team fell into offensive stagnation, Okafor could always use his signature low position to attack and break through the deadlock for Guangsha.
And the finals G1 this game, Guangsha big score lost, Okafor really need to carry the pot, as the current strength of this Guangsha can be said to be the strongest player, his "high open low walk", failed to help the team stabilize the position when the score was anxious, was taken away by Liaoning to a direct wave of streams, it is likely to affect the trend of this series, after a few games, Liaoning is bound to continue to make targeted arrangements for Okafor, and can Okafu withstand the pressure and support up, It also determines to a certain extent whether Guangsha has the opportunity to "steal" a few victories after that.
(Luo Treasurer)