The defending champion Liaoning team has lost a total of three games so far in the new season, in addition to being killed by Zhejiang Guangsha, it was a 12-point loss to Zhejiang Chouzhou with a score difference of 91:103. Although this game is not as much attention as the Liaoyue battle, it has extraordinary significance for both teams, in addition to the impact on the rankings. The grudge between the two teams from last season's finals, especially for Zhejiang Chouzhou, wants to further prove itself, when the core player Wu Qian returns healthy, the team is fully capable of completing last season's revenge.
Although Zhejiang Chouzhou was swept out of the finals by the Liaoning team 0:4 in the finals last season, not only was the small foreign aid Gailey affected by injuries in the finals, but Wu Qian, who was the absolute core of the team, was also directly absent. Although Liu Zeyi, a striker from Zhejiang Chouzhou, still did not play due to injury, the core defender of the Liaoning team, Guo Allen, was also in the recovery period, although he was not absent, he basically did not contribute anything on the field. Therefore, the overall strength of the two teams is basically half a catty, for the Liaoning team, whether to win the opponent has a certain impact on the team's success in defending the title in the new season, once it fails, not only the Liaoning team's ranking in the league will drop directly, and the hope of defending the title will be further reduced. Because, so far in the league, the team with the strength to win the championship has gradually emerged, in addition to Liaoning, Xinjiang, Guangdong, it is Zhejiang Shuangxiong. Therefore, winning the opponent in the regular season will be of great help to the team's confidence in winning the championship.
Therefore, Liaoning coach Ugo was very cautious at the beginning of the starting lineup, and did not let Guo Allen, who had just returned, as the starter, but let Yan Shouqi, who performed well in the last game, replace Guo Allen to partner Zhao Jiwei as the starting defender. The front line still retains players like Zhang Zhenlin and Li Xiaoxu who can protect rebounds and have three-point shooting ability on the outside as starters, and the other is to use Moreland's mobility, speed advantage and confrontation ability to consume Yu Jiahao. In order to match the height of the Liaoning team, Wang Shilong did not choose a lineup of three defenders, but let Wu Qian's partner Jones form a backcourt double gun. On the front line, Wang Zilu and Lu Wenbo were allowed to limit Li Xiaoxu and Zhang Zhenlin, and Yu Jiahao was used to help the team protect rebounds and complete blocking and dismantling on the inside. Such a-for-tat start also made the two teams play inextricably in the first half, and the two teams actually played a 51-51 draw at halftime.
In fact, the Liaoning team lost in the third quarter. In the first half, the head coach of the Liaoning team, Ugo, was very successful in restricting Wu Qian, the core of Zhejiang Chouzhou, and Jones, a small foreign aid, although he did not use the trap tactics, but the use of Yan Shouqi to defend Wu Qian was relatively successful. At the same time, let Zhang Zhenlin use his high defense to defend the small foreign aid Jones, although there will be occasional leaks, but in most cases it is still relatively in place. But after the start of the third quarter of the game, Zhao Jiwei seemed to start competing with Wu Qian, especially when Zhao Jiwei was fouled by Wu Qian at 1 minute and 26 seconds in the third quarter, and the emotions were completely revealed. is basically staring at Wu Qian, and the offensive means seem to be following Wu Qian, and the number of outside three-point shots is gradually increasing. But this kind of defense didn't seem to have much impact on Wu Qian, on the contrary, it completely opened Wu Qian. In the third quarter, Zhejiang Chouzhou scored a total of 7 three-pointers, Wu Qian scored 5 by himself, and Wu Qian only scored 24 points in this game, and scored 17 points in a single quarter in the third quarter. This is also the main reason for the final defeat of the Liaoning team.
In addition, Zhejiang Chouzhou also seems to have found the trick of Zhejiang Guangsha to kill the Liaoning team, and the focus of the whole game is to limit Zhao Jiwei. Although Guo Allen made a comeback, after all, he was absent for too long, and his skills did not fully recover. Therefore, the whole game is to strangle Zhao Jiwei, and Fogg's presence is to focus on Fergus, especially for the team's organizational tandem, the Zhejiang team almost always pays attention to Zhao Jiwei's internal and external blocking and dismantling cooperation with Moreland or Han Dejun. Therefore, in this game, the Liaoning team made 18 mistakes, and Zhao Jiwei alone had 8 times, of which Moreland also dribbled over half the court many times. Although Zhao Jiwei also scored 15 points in this game, he did not make 1 free throw, made a total of 17 shots, and made as many as 10 outside three-point shots, only hitting 3 shots. What's more, the role of the most playmaking tandem team was not fully played, playing nearly 36 minutes in the game, and only discarding seven assists. It is very difficult for Liaoning to win.
In addition, when the Zhejiang team restricted Zhao Jiwei, Ugo, as the head coach, seemed to find no better way to deal with it. Moreland does not have the ability to play alone inside, although Han Dejun has also played twice, but for a 35-year-old veteran, let alone the whole game, even if he keeps playing like this in a single quarter, Han Dejun will not be able to stand it. In addition, in addition to pulling out to replace Moreland or Han Dejun and guard players to block and dismantle, Li Xiaoxu's main function is to protect rebounds, and there is basically no tactic for interior offense. Zhang Zhenlin has the ability to take the initiative to attack with the ball, but under the strict defense of the Zhejiang team, it is very difficult to easily complete the breakthrough on the periphery, and the 2 mistakes are also caused by this. Therefore, when Zhao Jiwei of the Liaoning team was blocked by the Zhejiang team, the head coach never found the second point of attack, or even the third point of attack, which was the main reason for the loss. It is also the same as the two games lost to Zhejiang Guangsha.
It doesn't matter if you win or lose a game, but the hole cards of the Liaoning team's championship-winning lineup are basically all unveiled, and what about the defensive giants like Liu Zeyi in Chouzhou, Zhejiang? In this case, the Liaoning team did not hold on to the home field, and the Zhejiang team completed revenge with a 12-point advantage. This is undoubtedly the biggest blow to the Liaoning team to win the championship in the new season.