The first leg of the CBA Finals began, and Zhejiang Guangsha lost 75-98 to the Liaoning men's basketball team, falling behind 0-1 on aggregate. In this game, although Zhejiang Guangsha team bit the score in the first half, it directly collapsed in the second half. So why did Guangsha collapse in the second half? One piece of data can clearly tell the answer.
That number is the bench score. In this game, the Liaoning men's basketball team scored as high as 50 points, 2 points more than their main lineup, and what about the Guangsha team? The 7 substitutes only scored 9 points in total, and this data alone lost 41 points, which also made Guangsha's head coach Wang Bo very helpless.
Due to the lack of Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao, the Guangsha team lacked 2 trump cards, in order to make up for the gap between the two, Wang Bo put Xu Zhonghao on the starting line-up, and he got 13 points and 9 rebounds on 6 of 10 shots, which was already his best. As a super 6th person, Zhao Yanhao did not have a stand-in at all, or Zhao Jiaren, who could have been his stand-in, was also put on the starting line by Wang Bo.
This also led to the main lineup of the Guangsha team, which can still bite the score when the physical strength is abundant, but once it enters the second half, after the Liaoning men's basketball team rotates the lineup, the Guangsha team will be gradually pulled apart due to the lack of sufficient substitutes, and even a wave of exile.
Looking at the playing time of the Guangsha team in this game, 4 local starters, 3 played more than 42 minutes, and the other Zhao Jiaren, who played the least, played 39 minutes and 32 seconds. On the other hand, in terms of substitutes, except for foreign aid Jones, no one has played more than 10 minutes, which is enough to show how short of people are in the substitute lineup of Guangsha. So even if their five starters all scored in double figures, it was still difficult to save the game.
However, even in such a difficult situation, the Guangsha team still showed a very tenacious willpower and hard work, which should still be praised for them. Only from the current situation, the Guangsha team, which lacks major generals, is afraid that it is really impossible to stop the healthy Liaoning men's basketball team from attacking the second crown in their team history.