There are two strong teams from 5 to 12, one is Guangsha and the other is Shanghai.
The pattern of this year's CBA is very different from previous years, in the past, it was a two-person CBA transfer in Liaoyue, and the advantages were obvious, but now, the emerging middle force has risen abruptly.
Zhejiang Chouzhou has already won the regular season top card, setting a team history record, Shenzhen has also squeezed into the top four, ensuring that it is not suffering in the first round, Guangsha has had a lot of ups and downs due to injuries this season, but the latter has overcome strong opponents, and Guangdong and Liaoning have drawn together, Shanghai has also reached one city each with Liaoning, and also killed Guangsha twice.
The top six Zhejiang, Guangdong, Liaobasket, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Guangsha seem to be randomly caught in pairs, and they all feel that they are all five or five...
Moreover, now that the regular season rankings of the four teams of Liaoning, Guangdong, Shanghai and Guangsha have not been determined, Liaoning has a certain possibility of overtaking to second - they definitely want to return to second (the last three games, Liaoning: Shanxi, Guangzhou and Qingdao; Guangdong: Shenzhen, Shandong and Xinjiang), because if you don't get it, you will run into the 6th Guangsha - basically not much surprise.
There is only one win difference between Shanghai and Guangsha, Guangsha's three opponents are Jilin, Fujian and Sichuan, these three games lose at most, moreover, Guangsha was killed by Shanghai, so Shanghai basically sits in the 5th, and then with Zhejiang and Shenzhen in the upper half of the region, Guangsha 6th will not change, and then with Guangdong, Liaoning in the lower half.
So, if Guangdong and Shanghai can meet this season, it will be in the finals.
Does Shanghai have this capability? Who knows? Is there a chance in Guangdong? And no one knows anymore. Fang Cai said that this year, the difference in strength between the teams is not so big, no one is so strong, no one is so weak. So, as the playoffs approach, the battle between the strong teams is undoubtedly crucial.
The Shanghai-Guangdong war was naturally no exception.
Guangdong beat Shanghai 131-108 by 23 points at the beginning of the season, shooting 48.6% from 3-pointers, and the most exciting thing is that Guangdong grabbed 17 frontcourt rebounds and 21 more rebounds than Shanghai, so a big win is inevitable.
However, that was in October last year, in the past nearly half a year, both teams have changed a lot, and now Shanghai has gradually formed a fast-paced tactical style with Dawang + Shuangxiaowai as the core, and frontcourt rebounding is their killer feature, averaging 16.7 per game ranking first in the league.
Guangdong has changed from a defensive team at the beginning of the season to a veritable offensive team today, especially focusing on outside projection, and is currently ranked 1st in offensive efficiency and 6th in defensive efficiency.
Therefore, this time again, it is no longer what it was at the beginning, Shanghai relies on its own interior advantage to sweep the front board, while tough defense forces Guangdong to send mistakes one after another, once widening the point difference to 15 points, Guangdong's 3 points are accurate throughout the game, far exceeding the season average, but can not maintain the lead.
Du Feng can see clearly that there is a big problem with the rebound.
Therefore, we finally saw an amazing scene in the fourth quarter, Du Feng actually sent a super large lineup of Ma Shang, Zhang Haojia, Ren Junfei, Du Runwang and Yi Jianlian, and at 9 minutes and 25 seconds, he even replaced Yi Jianlian with Wang Xinkai to form a five-forward lineup that shocked the world.
It wasn't until 4 minutes and 38 seconds that Xu Jie, Dahan and Hu Mingxuan were replaced.
This is also a famous scene in the CBA, and probably only Du Feng can put on such a lineup. There is no "big" or "small", in order to limit the king and grab back the rebound, Du Feng really opened up.
However, he never expected that this strange lineup would work wonderfully, and Du Feng actually taught Coach Li a lesson.
Before entering the final quarter, the two teams tied 78, and by the time the five strikers left the court in 4 minutes and 38 seconds, Guangdong had led Shanghai by 12 points. It was this time that established a double-digit advantage that eventually reversed and took away the victory.
In fact, to seriously analyze Du Feng's approach afterwards, there is a certain rationality, Marchand basically has to hold the ball to attack, in rare cases will be used as a no-ball response or endpoint, there is Ma Shang to control the ball, as long as Shanghai does not press or wrap, there is no problem - in fact, Li Chunjiang did not seize this opportunity, the five must have weaknesses.
Marchand's offense was either singled out or blocked with the big man.
Looking at the mood alone, no one can say badly, just talking about that time, the overall shooting percentage is 3 of 9, can only be said to be decent, a few good opportunities under the basket did not score, but fortunately in the second half of the two 3-point worth a lot.
More importantly, he gave out 5 assists in the final quarter, which was an opportunity after blocking.
The players who partner with Ma Shang do not require the other party to be sudden or passable, but they must be able to shoot, and almost everyone in the Guangdong team has 3 points, and the team ranks first in the league in 3 points this season, which is the capital that Du Feng dares to do, as we can see, Wang Zhang and the two of them shot 3 of 3 in the last quarter, a total of 3 shots, Du Runwang also shot 3 of 4 in a single quarter. It was with this 3-point rain that the situation was turned around in one fell swoop.
To be honest, the main purpose of the Big Five lineup is actually to defend, in order to counter Shanghai's penalty area advantage, I didn't think about how good the offensive end could play, but as a result, both defense and attack played wonders.
The offensive side just said, let alone defense, in the last quarter, Shanghai only scored 23 points, which was the lowest scoring section of the game, Dawang only shot 1 of 3 in the box, Shanghai's rebounds did not expand further, and the whole game was even 4 less than Guangdong.
And it should be noted that Xu Jie, Hu Mingxuan and Dahan lost points after playing more than 4 points in the final quarter, because the five big players still led by 12 points, and the final result of the game was Guangdong's 108-101 victory over Shanghai by 7 points.
After watching a lot of games in Guangdong, I don't remember whether it was the first time to use the big five lineups, but now, maybe this is a good attempt, Guangdong This kind of five major teams with 3 points and defense, there is a certain rationality, it may not be a conventional way of play, but it can be a surprisingly winning move.
It is the insight and reaction of the opposing manager that is tested.