Although it is not bloody from the results of the game, the real gap between Guangdong and Xinjiang teams is far more than these 4 points, after losing, the season was killed by Xinjiang, and recently suffered two consecutive defeats, 2024 so far 4 games have lost 3 of them, respectively, the New Year's Day battle 11 points lost to Liaoning, was killed by a double, away to Shanxi, from leading 16 points to being reversed, 4 games and 3 losses, which can no longer be described as bad.
The reason for Guangdong's loss, Du Feng thought that the young players were not strong, and after the game, he also criticized Xu Xin, Zhao Xuhong, Huang Mingyi and other young players by name (Zhao Xuhong is not a young player), although he did not name the main force like Du Runwang and Zhang Haojia, and did not say the problem of foreign aid, but the audience who watched the game should also know that the problem of young players is one thing, the Guangdong team is indeed inferior to others, and the loss is also lost.
The focus here is on Waters.
Waters played 19 minutes in this game, cut 19 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, but the personal plus/minus was only -10, the Guangdong team did not send him at the main juncture of chasing points, but used back the meritorious foreign aid Marchand, but unfortunately, when Marchand chased the score to only 2 points, the key shot was intercepted by Yu Dehao and made a mistake, Guangdong lost the last chance, Jones scored two free throws, 4 points behind, and the Guangdong team with 3 seconds left used back Waters for the last offense.
Waters' unexpected start, but the situation of leading the team is still not very ideal, because there are many people who can defend him on the opposite side of Xinjiang, and the guards who are taller than him are Jones, Telles, Huang Rongqi, and Yu Dehao.
Among them, Yu Dehao, who mainly led the defense of Waters, broke his defense.
In the third quarter of 8 minutes and 47 seconds of the game, Waters in an offensive round with the ball, there was a continuous malicious hurtful action, Waters held the ball and broke through to Dehao, in the process of double body contact, Yu Dehao first fouled and blocked, and the referee blew the whistle for the first time.
But then in the process of walking back to the court, Waters pretended not to see his feet, deliberately hooked Yu Dehao with the instep of his foot and pretended to be tripped, this move instantly angered Yu Dehao, who immediately got up and planned to fight with Waters, but then was immediately stopped by his teammates, which did not cause a big disaster.
Waters should have wanted to use these off-court moves to provoke Yu Dehao, but his acting skills were really clumsy, and he provoked disputes in front of everyone, so he could only be added an additional technical foul by the referee.
But the slow motion shows that Waters' purpose has actually been achieved early in the morning, when Yu Dehao blocked, he had a very hidden elbow to press down on Yu Dehao's head, that is, the black elbow, this action was not captured by the referee, Yu Dehao, who often opposes the enemy's arrow figures, also knows the opponent's fancy intestines, he did not fight back angrily for the first time, and immediately covered his head after falling to the ground, intending to use this to reflect to the referee and let Waters eat the violation. But Waters is also a smart man, and he knows what Yu Dehao wants to do, so he immediately deliberately hooks people with his feet, trying to cover up the black elbow.
In addition to this clash, Waters and Yu Dehao also had a similar clash in the first half, and in the face of Dehao's cowhide plaster-like defense, Waters directly elbowed him away.
Deliberately hurt, deliberately provoke the opponent, Waters not only lost a technical foul and two free throws, but also widened the score difference of the Guangdong team, although Du Feng trusted him and gave him a start, but at this time his patience was also to the extreme, and then Waters was withdrawn after a few minutes, Weems came on the field, but it was still not effective, and Du Feng could only gamble on Marchand.
Waters has had similar injuries to opponents more than once this season, and in last year's game against Shanghai, Waters had two more outrageous moves, one was an unintentional kick to Luo Hanchen's crotch, which was punished by referee Yang Hongfeng.
The other was at the critical moment of the game to Wang Zhelin's neck, although Waters got up to say sorry to Wang Zhelin at that time, but Wang Zhelin inevitably recurred from the old injury.
At that time, he was fighting with a shoulder injury, and Waters' blow directly made Wang Zhelin so painful that he needed ice.
In the game with the Shandong team, Waters also had an injury action to Gao Shiyan who led his defense, and in the face of Gao Shiyan's close marking, Waters was angry and directly pushed Gao Shiyan's face angrily with his hand, and this action was also added by the referee to a violation, and when Gao Shiyan made a free throw, Waters did not stop talking, still chattering at him.
In the battle of Liaoyue and Guangdong, the open and secret battle between Waters and Zhang Zhenlin also became the focus of heated discussions among fans after the game.
Overall, Waters is a good young player with a good personal style of play, but his quality is rather poor and he often clashes with the defenders of his game, which really needs to be noted.