After four seasons of fighting, Liaoning finally defeated Zhejiang 83-72 to advance to the U22 men's five-person basketball final of the National Games. The other semi-finals were played between Guangdong and Hubei, whose winner was Liaoning's next opponent. To tell the truth, the showdown between Guangdong and Hubei is basically no suspense, the former has no obvious shortcomings, can be described as strong soldiers, although Hubei has Gu Quan, Tang Jie and other players, but the miracle of eliminating Guangdong is difficult to happen.
Hubei, which is weak in strength, has no intention of conceding defeat, and Gu Quan, Tang Jie and others have hit three points in succession to help Hubei get off to a good start. However, Guangdong then used its own advantages to complete the counter-overtaking, and then the two sides had exchanges with each other, and at the end of the first quarter, Guangdong won a six-point lead of 29-23, which is absolutely acceptable for Hubei. But from the second quarter of the game, Hubei was in disarray.
Guangdong's full-court pressing directly worked, when Hubei could not hit three points, Guangdong's attack wave after wave, the point difference between the two sides directly came to double digits, in the second quarter of the game, Guangdong played a 30-13 offensive climax, in one fell swoop to grasp the initiative of the game, the 59-36 point difference directly made the game lose suspense. In fact, Hubei can accept the result of the loss, they hope to be able to compete with Guangdong for a longer time, but this goal, Guangdong did not let Hubei achieve, they only gave Hubei a section of the game time.
Due to the relatively easy game, Du Feng turned on the training mode again, and at the end of the half, only two players in the Guangdong team, Du Runwang and Li Yanzhe, did not score. The rest of the players Hu Mingxuan and Shen Zijie scored in double figures, and Bai Haotian, Zhao Rui, Zhou Peng and others all played their part. Compared with Guangdong's training model, Hubei is much worse in terms of platoon deployment, and head coach Dai Yong is helpless, after all, the gap in strength is somewhat large.
But what makes Dai Yong even more helpless is Guangdong's non-compliance, when there are about three minutes left in the second quarter of the game, Hubei's attack is not hit, and Guangdong seized the opportunity to be quickly attacked by Hu Mingxuan, when Guangdong already had a 19-point lead. However, when Hubei served from the backcourt, Guangdong still sacrificed the full court pressing, Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie took care of Hubei's ball carriers, the latter made a mistake, although trying to protect the ball, but the referee blew an eight-second illegal whistle, and Guangdong once again won the ball.
After the whole field pressed to cause Hubei to violate the law for eight seconds, the director found the Hubei coach Dai Yong on the sidelines, who showed a helpless expression on his face, the original point difference was large enough, but Guangdong still did not rely on it, it was really a bit unkind to the taste of martial arts. However, this is also the discipline of Guangdong, the team coached by Du Feng does not allow the players to have any carelessness, and Liaoning, which took the lead in promotion, is also a favorite to win the championship, and Du Feng definitely does not want to lose to Yang Ming in this competition.
Text/Shuang Brother