The key to master's tricks is to rely on internal strength to kill, competitive sports, especially team competitions, appear to be talented on the surface, but in fact, they need Tian Ji's horse-racing foresight and tactical intention to avoid reality and fiction. Especially for teams aiming to win the title this season, this kind of precautionary approach is needed. In the regular season, for the top four or even the top six teams, it doesn't matter if you win or lose a game, what matters is that you can develop your team members into players with the ability to win championships. Wang Bo seems to have been working hard to build a team capable of winning the championship in the new season, so it is understandable that the Xinjiang team finally lost the game by 10 points at 86:96.
Zhejiang East Sunshine has always been one of the most powerful teams in the all-Chinese class in the eyes of fans, and even the starters are in the all-Chinese class, and Zhejiang East Sunshine has few opponents. However, Zhejiang East Sunshine has been in the team's key games for two consecutive seasons, and the main core players have suffered major injuries one after another, resulting in the team missing the championship for two consecutive seasons. At the beginning of this season, Xu Zhonghao, the core of the team and the veteran who is also relied on by the team, suffered an injury, and then Zhao Yanhao also rested for a long time due to injury problems. Therefore, the team's results at the beginning of the season can be said to have plummeted, and more importantly, as the team's head coach Wang Bo seems to be more impatient, in order to pursue the victory in front of him, almost every game has let the main core players Hu Jinqiu, Sun Minghui, Zhu Junlong and others have been kept in about 40 minutes of playing time. But after two consecutive defeats to defending champion Liaoning, Wang Bo seems to have completely woken up, and the key to the team's championship is not a victory in one or two games, but the support of bench thickness.
It is this change of ideology that Zhejiang East Sunshine continues to let young players get a lot of playing time in the following games, especially against strong teams, and even at the cost of failure in exchange for young players' playing time. So far in the new season, the players who have been playing more and more in Zhejiang East Sunshine are tall strikers such as Zhu Junlong, Zhao Jiaren and Li Jinxiao. Coach Wang Bo seems to realize that the most successful offensive position of the winning team is the team's forward players, and the strength of the forward line is strong, and the team has the hope of winning the championship. Because, the team's central defenders are easy to encounter targeted defense, and the interior players are also easy to be surrounded and blocked by opponents. The only thing that may be missing is the forward line, especially as a frontline player of a championship-winning team, who not only needs to have the ability to hold the ball alone, but also need to have the ability to shoot from the outside three-point line. At the same time, it can help the team protect rebounds inside, and help the guard line transition the ball to the front court.
In the new season, Zhejiang East Sunshine is gradually pushing Zhu Junlong, Li Jinxiao, Zhao Jiaren and even Wang Qingming, who was forgotten by the team in the past, to the position of the main rotation. Before Wang Qingming was almost abandoned by Wang Bo in the Zhejiang team, even if Wang Qingming was still not reused at the beginning of the new season, but with the deepening of the schedule and the team gradually revealed the championship temperament, Wang Qingming's playing time is slowly increasing. In the last four games, Wang Qingming has played more than 15 minutes, although the score is not high, not more than 10 points, but it can be seen that Wang Qingming's outside three-point shooting rate is slowly recovering, and the three-point shooting rate in the first two games reached 40% and 67% respectively. Although there was no score in the game against Xinjiang, the role in the team cannot be ignored. Especially on the defensive end, when Hu Jinqiu is absent and the strength of the interior line declines, the height of the forward line and the confrontation ability of the inside line like Wang Qingming have alleviated the pressure on the interior players to a certain extent. This is more conducive to effective use in the late playoffs.
Zhu Junlong's role as a striker of the Zhejiang team on the defensive end is obvious, especially after the return of the national team, his self-confidence has obviously been greatly improved, not only the defensive end is more fierce, but also the scoring means are more abundant. During Zhao Yanhao's injury this season, he completely supported the heavy responsibility of the front, averaging more than 30 minutes per game so far this season, and even more than 35 minutes and 40 minutes many times. Although he averaged 9 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, the role of the defensive end is more important, and it is also the initiative of Wang Bo to consciously take the initiative to cultivate his forward advantage. Although Zhao Jiaren has also been the team's main substitute in the past few seasons, he rarely played more than 30 minutes, but this season he has averaged 31.5 minutes per game, second only to Zhu Junlong's playing time. The average score of 11.5 per game even surpassed Zhu Junlong and Zhao Yanhao. In particular, the outside three-point shooting rate reached 41%, which is the most terrifying part of the Zhejiang team. After all, Zhao Yanhao's outside three-point shooting rate on the team's front line has reached 43%, Zhu Junlong's 34%, and Zhao Jiaren's 41%. The team's forward reserves have reached championship level.
In addition, Wang Bo's guidance is consciously to make sparks between Okafor and Sun Minghui as soon as possible. After all, Oliver and Hu Jinqiu are currently partnered, and such a twin-tower tactic has proven to be invincible. The only flaw is Okafor's adaptation and the question of who is more suitable to partner with. In Okafor's first game, the Zhejiang team consciously let him take the initiative to take on the responsibility of attacking inside, constantly feeding the ball, even if it was unsuccessful, it didn't matter. It can be seen from Okafor's playing time that Coach Wang Bo is very eager for Okafor to take on the team's interior offensive responsibility as soon as possible, after all, there is no shortage of outside shooters in the team. Against a strong team like Xinjiang, Oliver's performance was obviously better than Okafor, but Wang Bo still insisted on letting Okafor play 26 minutes, especially with Sun Minghui, constantly trying how to complete the attack more effectively. Once this run-in is successful, Hu Jinqiu partners Oliver, and Okafor is fully able to lead Li Jinxiao, Wu Xiao and other young players to support the bench lineup.
Wang Bo's guidance of this trick can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone, and he has been preparing for the playoffs and even the finals since the beginning of the regular season. not only further improve the thickness of the lineup, but also make sure that there are no obvious shortcomings in every position. This is the most powerful place of Zhejiang East Sunshine, compared to the win or loss of a ball, the playoffs and even the finals are the real battlefield of Zhejiang East Sunshine.