led by 21 points in the first half and was chased to a single-digit lead in the second half; The front line fell en masse, Zhou Peng is really old, 6 of 0, Zhang Zhenlin is also embarrassed, 1 of 5 outside the three-point line, and Zhu Xuhang, the high-altitude battery of the Xinjiang team, is 0 of 4.
Qiao Shuai's debut was unsatisfactory.
Fans couldn't help but shake their heads when they saw that the three-point shot was frozen on 6-of-23 shooting and 15-of-27 from the free throw line.
The old problem has not changed in the slightest because of the entry of the Serbian coach, although the same winning score as the away game against Kazakhstan, but this game is obviously far less than the play, because of the home field, the referee's tendency is obviously home to play a big advantage, but to hand over such an answer, naturally unpleasant.
Replace Du Feng with a world-famous coach, but still play badly, a game that disappoints fans, why is this so?
At 19:35 Beijing time on February 23, the Chinese men's basketball team defeated Kazakhstan 71-59 in the men's basketball World Cup qualifiers, with the scores of 21-12, 22-10, 16-18, 12-19 in the fourth quarter.
Tiger and tiger are alive
At the beginning of the first quarter, Zhao Jiwei pulled the defensive intensity to the full grid, and the defense counterattack established a three-point lead, 6-3.
After that, three consecutive outside misses were missed, and no one took advantage of the situation to quickly open the score, but fortunately, the excellent performance on the defensive end made Kazakhstan's attack repeatedly unsuccessful.
It was still Zhao Jiwei who took the lead in opening the three-point scoring account on the outside, and since then, Zhou Qi and Zhang Zhenlin have scored on the inside, and then opened the point difference to ten points, 15-5.
With more than three minutes left in the game, Qiao Shuai made a large rotation of the lineup, with Allen Guo, Wang Zhelin and Zhu Junlong coming on, and then Zhu Xuhang also replaced Zhang Zhenlin.
Allen Guo was very positive, forcing the opponent's center out of the paint zone in a misplaced defense, giving extreme pressure when defending the opponent's defender in front, appearing hungry for the game, and then scored four consecutive points, 19-8.
After the second team came on, the intensity of the defense remained airtight, and only core player Mozagariev hit a three-point shot from the outside.
At the end of the first quarter, China led by nine points 21-12.
In the second quarter, the Chinese team had already been whistled five fouls in less than three minutes, and apparently the referee began to find balance, but this did not help the opponent, and there were still as many as six turnovers under high pressure.
This quarter strengthened the inside attack, Zhou Qi frequently scored under the basket, Zhao Rui became the second player on the team to shoot three points, 32-18, stopped Kazakhstan, Hu Mingxuan also opened a three-point scoring account, scoring 5 points in a row, far better than the league.
At 22-10 in a single quarter, the Chinese team won by 12 points.
At 43-22, China built a 21-point lead at halftime.
The strong defense led by Zhao Jiwei made the opponent lose the direction of progress, 10 mistakes in the first quarter and 6 in the second quarter, which is the key to being able to lead by 21 points, but the opponent has so many mistakes but under the deliberate pressure of the rhythm, there are still too many opportunities to counterattack and score, and the play is a little shrunk.
The biggest problem is still in the cold hand on the outside, most of these scorers who cut points in the league have a three-point shooting rate of more than 40%, but the vice of muting the fire as soon as they arrive in the international arena is still the same, it is really not how good the opponent's defense is, and the big open position can also be frequently ironed, which is very annoying.
In the first quarter, Zhao Jiwei hit a three-pointer, while the others did not receive anything, and in the second quarter, Zhao Rui and Hu Mingxuan opened a three-point account but failed to get a good continuation.
1-of-5 three-point shooting in the first quarter and 2-of-7 three-point shooting in the second quarter seemed to alleviate somewhat, but in fact it became a turning point in the game.
Tiger heads and tails
In the third quarter, Zhang Zhenlin hit a three-pointer, but at 6:35 of the game, Kazakhstan hit two consecutive difficult three-pointers, they began to rise, and at 5:32 of the game, Kazakhstan played a wave of 7-0 to close the gap.
At the 1:36 of the game, Zhu Xuhang walked to the free throw line for the second time but missed three free throws, and the Chinese team's shot was lost, and he could only use the shooting tactic to play the height advantage and barely deal with the opponent.
In the second half, the outside line has not dared to shoot three points, will only make some meaningless passes, hoping to send the ball directly to the inside, and then repeatedly mistakenly attacked, on the contrary, the opponent is very resolute, by breaking through to compress the Chinese team's defense, the outside decisive shot, the shooting rate is gradually higher, watching the fans anxious.
16-18, end of third quarter.
Compared with the third quarter, there was also the cooperation of playing the third height internal pass, and in the fourth quarter it was even more chaotic, and Kazakhstan, which became more and more courageous, continued to use sudden points to create good shooting opportunities and catch up with the score, because the increase in shooting percentage greatly limited the number of counterattacks of the Chinese team, and every time it fell into the position to attack was very sluggish.
When the 5 points in a single quarter stayed on the scoreboard for a long time, Qiao Shuai was very anxious on the sidelines, and changing guards like a horse lamp did not help, and the Chinese team had to rely on fouls to go to the free throw line and barely grow, but the opponent was playing more and more, the new substitute scored three-pointers, attacked under the basket, and snatched the rebound from Zhou Qi's hand.
With just over a minute left in the game, the gap narrowed by one degree to nine points, but at the 54th second, Hu Mingxuan's bottom-corner three-pointer bounced into the basket and hit the balloon, knocking out his opponent's chase ambition and re-establishing a double-digit lead 70-59.
When they saw a 21-point lead in the first half, many fans thought it might be a crushing victory, but the plot of the second half turned out to be like this.
The expected newcomers failed to play, more defensive meat shields, such as Choi Yonghee, who scored zero points in 15 minutes of debut time; Zhang Zhenlin was 2 of 8, and the outside was pinned on hope, and the Xinjiang team's outside answer, Zhu Xuhang, scored three points.
From the lineup, it is the existence of crushing opponents, but without the three-point shot to open up, it is predictable that the second half will be so difficult. How can this change?