The first game of the CBA Finals has ended, and everyone may have a similar viewing experience - unfinished, not up to expectations, and even somewhat boring, the Liaoning men's basketball team can be said to have completely suppressed the opponent. Although Zhejiang Guangsha has suffered frustrating injuries in a row, it is not so "vulnerable", at least they should try to play their own style and momentum. In the whole game, the Guangsha team only scored 75 points, which was 29 points worse than their season average of 104 points per game! It can be seen that they are completely unsuitable to the rhythm of the finals, or psychologically unprepared to have a hard-hitting contest with the Liaoning team. There is no doubt that the season reimbursement of Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao has seriously affected the morale of the team. From the moment Zhejiang Guangsha officially released Hu Jinqiu's injury, the series between Liaoning Basket and Guangsha may also lose its focus.
Before the game, the Liaoning men's basketball team unveiled a poster of the game — thick bandages filled with the names of injured players. The pattern of the whole poster is very large, and it is obvious that Liao Basket's move completely sublimates the connotation of the game. Instead of rendering the atmosphere of the finals, they paid tribute to all the injured athletes, and such a poster diluted the gunpowder smell of the finals a lot. In fact, throughout the first half of the game, Liao Basket is really playing in the style of the poster. The intensity of the game is actually not large, the offensive and defensive rhythm of the two sides, the frequency of physical confrontation and the intensity are far less than the Liaoyue War. The defensive focus of the Liaoning basket is mainly focused on the interior Okafor and the outside sun Minghui. What is surprising is that Yang Ming sent the second brother to defend Okafu, and when he was young, Li Xiaoxu had the nickname of "Magic Beast", which definitely limited Okafu's ability, but the years were not spared, and now Li Xiaoxu's single defense of Okafu's effect is not ideal. As long as Dahan, who is slow-moving, tries to make up for defenses, a huge gap will definitely be exposed behind him. Therefore, in the first half of the game, Guangsha team relied on Okafor's firepower to pin down the inside line and scored many times.
Fans who are even a little bit a little bit can see that in the first half of the game, Liaoning did not come up with the killer skills of this season. As early as the semi-finals of Guangdong, Yang Ming found a dynamic and powerful lineup: Moland, Fu Hao Zhen guarded the inner line, the fully evolved Zhang Zhenlin made the front line of the Liaoning basket a strong point, and Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei joined forces to organize each other. These five people are the strongest five tigers in Liaoning basket at this stage. It's just surprising that Yang Ming didn't come up with this lineup too early. Yang Ming's move may have two purposes: First, fire reconnaissance, to try out what Okafor's offensive and defensive level is. Second, the first game of the finals, it is really not good to come up, to save some face for the other side and to reserve some points of view for the CBA Finals.
When Yang Ming used the killer skill, the Guangsha team completely announced that it had given up resistance. As soon as the defensive intensity of the strongest five-man group came up, the Guangsha team, which had entered a fatigue period, obviously could not resist. Consecutive inexplicable mistakes allowed the Liaoning team to instantly widen the point difference to about 20 points. Sun Minghui, who had been suppressed for a whole game, obviously began to play, and in the fourth quarter, he took the initiative to apply for fouls against Fogg, and the game lost suspense. In fact, watching the whole game, it feels like watching a regular season game. The two teams, whether it is the staffing or the alignment of the lineup or the degree of anticipation for the game, are not on the same level.
Therefore, the viewing degree of such a game is very average. The most humorous thing is that the garbage time that should have ended hastily ended up was delayed by about 20 minutes because of the replacement of the basket. During this period, liaoning and Guangsha players can only dribble and shoot on the same field. Such a small episode completely dissipated some of the remaining gunpowder smells of the finals. History is always strikingly similar, and if nothing else, the script of The Liaoning Basket sweeping across Guangsha to win the championship will appear again. Can the Guangsha team "steal" a battle of honor? We'll see.