In last season's opening match, Guangdong lost 113-138 to All-China Class Zhejiang. After the game, many fans believed that without Yi Jianlian, Guangdong had withdrawn from the championship competition.
A year later, in the third round of the regular season, the two teams met again, this time Guangdong still did not have the UAE League, but the Guangdong eight won the game 110-94 in doubles. Why did the double foreign lose so badly, but it was easier for the all-Chinese class to win?
The reason is that Du Feng chose a more holistic style of play and preferred to reduce the strength of the card, while Liu Weiwei seemed to have a stronger lineup but Yu Jiahao's playing style was incompatible with the team, but the actual combat strength decreased.
Last season, Guangdong seemed to have a stronger card face, and the actual double external state was not good, especially Ma Shang did not play the playoffs in the previous season, and the state needed to be restored; Weems was also restricted. Coupled with the fact that there were foreign aid teams in the first stage against the all-China class, they could only use two people in four quarters, and the Guangdong coaching team could not find a way to deal with this situation for a while.
Due to the championship parade, Guangdong did not participate in the pre-season, and the award of the championship ring on the same day also made the players a little distracted; while Zhejiang played the pre-season, including a defeat to Liaoning to find the team in good shape. Whether it is the state before the game or the study of the opponent, Zhejiang is much better than Guangdong.
This season' UAE return, playing 7 minutes to cut 16 points is amazingly efficient, but his age and body have not yet been able to adapt to high-intensity competition, for the sake of safety Du Feng did not let him play, qingdao also let him rest. There was no problem playing against Zhejiang, but considering that the intensity of the match against Zhejiang was very large, the run-in between the UAE League and the team was not the best, and the risk of injury in the fierce confrontation would increase. After the game pursued consideration, Du Feng did not risk letting the UAE league play.
After Zhejiang raised Yu Jiahao to a team, it attached great importance to him, hired a foreign teacher at a high price to train him, and also gave him a lot of playing time, averaging 35.6 minutes per game for a first-year rookie unprecedented, even Yao Ming did not have this treatment. However, the playing time was given, the tactics were not given, yu Jiahao often could only follow his teammates back and run, and rarely received sudden points in the position battle. He relies more on his personal ability to single, or grab the rebound in the front court.
Zhejiang's two years of rapid playing style has taken shape, their previous interior line Zhang Dayu has a strong shooting ability, Liu Ze is very stable under a basket, the two and the team's playing style is more matched, but for Yu Jiahao they can only give up the main position. However, Zhejiang is unlikely to completely abandon the mature playing style for Yu Jiahao, and now the league has only carried out four rounds, and in the future, in order to exercise Yu Jiahao, Zhejiang may have to pass out the price of results.
Guangdong's victory stems from the growth of the bench, last year Wang Shaokai was targeted by Zhejiang's weakness, this year his defense is no longer a loophole to be chased; last year Zeng Fanri only played 2 minutes, this year he had 10 points and 5 rebounds; last year Zhang Haojia did not play, this year he shot 3 of 4 from 12 points and three-pointers. Without foreign aid, Guangdong's play style is more integrated, and the defense is more tightly seamless. The progress of role players has allowed Du Feng to use more people and more changes in tactics.
Wu Qian only scored 5 points in the bag and clamp chasing and intercepting, which is different from last year's 39 points; Cheng Shuaipeng and Liu Zeyi, who scored 25 points last year, only had 2 points and 9 points this year; plus Lu Wenbo, who left the field injured at the beginning of this year, how Zhu Xuhang scored 31 points efficiently did not help.
Zhejiang's tactics have encountered bottlenecks, and the cultivation of new talents has also stopped, and there are currently 9 players in the big list who have no playing record or average less than 5 minutes per game. Without new blood, Zhejiang's extremely physically draining style of play cannot be continued for a long time, and perhaps Liu Weiwei should think about whether more assistants should be introduced to improve his playing style.