Liaoning, who won eight consecutive games in the CBA regular season, played at home against Zhejiang, which lost two of the last three games, losing to Shenzhen and Jilin.
At the beginning of the game, the Zhejiang team felt hot to lead the score, Moreland and Zhao Jiwei stood up to close the score, and Zhang Zhenlin also had a highlight performance, and the first half was tied at 51. In the second half, the Zhejiang team was full of firepower, and Wu Qian scored 17 points in a single quarter with 5 of 6 three-pointers in the third quarter, winning the opponent by 12 points in a single quarter, which became a watershed in the game. Liaoning's shooting percentage declined. At the last moment, Jones was knocked down by Fu Hao's elbow, his bleeding lips and teeth were knocked out! The team manager was very angry! Fu Hao was disqualified from the game. In the end, the Zhejiang team defeated the opponent 103-91, ending the opponent's eight-game winning streak and becoming the first brother in the league table. Jones paid the price of three teeth for this victory!
Wu Qian performed well in this game, scoring 24 points and 6 assists on 6-of-10 three-pointers, with a team-high plus/minus of +14. Under his leadership, the whole team has a good shooting percentage. Jones had 28 points, five rebounds and nine assists. Yu Jiahao was 4-of-5 and had 10 points and 3 rebounds. Wang Yibo 10 points. Perry had nine points and nine rebounds. Lu Wenbo scored 9 points, Wang Zilu had 5 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, and Cheng Shuaipeng had 8 points and 3 rebounds. The team scored 17 points from the free throw line and conceded just two.
The Liaoning team did not feel good, and the highest score was Zhang Zhenlin, who played the most minutes and reached 41 minutes, he got 20 points and 4 rebounds, Fogg 14 points and 4 assists, Zhao Jiwei got 15 points, 7 assists and 8 turnovers in 6 of 17, and Zhao Jiwei was a little unbearable in the face of the Zhejiang team's strict defense. Not only him, Guo Allen played 14 minutes in this game and did not score a point on 0-of-4 shooting, with only 1 assist and 1 turnover. Yan Shouqi had 9 points, and Li Xiaoxu had 4 points and 6 rebounds. Moreland had 12 points and 10 rebounds, Han Dejun had 12 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, and Fu Hao had 5 points and 4 rebounds.
As the opponent of the playoff finals last season, the Zhejiang team was holding back a lot of energy to win once. This time I finally got my wish. This is the first time the two teams have met this season, and the next meeting will not be until March. This also sounded the alarm for the Liaoning team, which is currently full of strong players in the CBA, and it is very difficult to win every game. The team needs more energy from young players.
In this game, the Liaoning team lost in the defense of three-point shots, scoring 14 three-pointers for the opponent, 5 more than themselves, and it can also be said that they lost to Wu Qian. Zhao Jiwei's fatigue has been revealed, the league has been halfway through, and basically the back line is supported by Zhao Jiwei alone, and he is also a little tired.
Coach Ugo mentioned that the team did not find the rhythm of the game, the opponent pressed fiercely, and was caught wrong in the second half.
Guo Allen has only played three games so far, playing less than 25 minutes, scoring 13 points in the first two games, in a posture of opening high and going low, and the opponents he faces are getting stronger and stronger. He also needs to further adapt to the current Liaoning team, after the change of head coach, his position is unstable, and it will take time to adapt to the long absence of the game. Zhao Jiwei and Zhang Zhenlin also have the desire to seize power, and Guo Allen's situation is still relatively difficult. The good thing is that the club has been very supportive of him and has taken very good care of him during his injury.
At present, Zhao Jiwei and Zhang Zhenlin have entered the starting ranks of the CBA All-Star voting in the first week, Zhao Jiwei averaged 14.3 points and 7.9 assists per game this season, and Zhang Zhenlin 16.5 points and 4.3 rebounds, the data are not very outstanding. Qingdao team's Wang Ruize is also a forward player, averaging 19.2 points and 4.6 rebounds per game, and his performance is even better. And Guo Allen missed the All-Star voting because of injury.
Liaoning's Fergus has declined as he gets older, and Moreland needs to take on more playing time, so the team can choose to develop a third foreign player in order to continue the advantage in foreign players. For the team, a long-term foreign aid configuration can be invincible. Frequent changes in foreign players do not bring consistent improvement to the team.