Although the 28th round of the CBA is an ordinary regular season, this game is crucial for the Shandong team. Because the team's overall record is only 11 wins and 16 losses, ranking 14th in the league, and they haven't even touched the door of the playoffs. What's more, from the first time facing the Shanghai team on December 29, 2023 to January 10, 2024, it was defeated by the Shanghai team twice in just one week. The result still seemed to be expected by the fans, the team fought tenaciously for the whole game, and reached the most critical 1 minute and 40 seconds of the game, but did not limit the veteran Ren Junwei of the Shanghai team, allowing him to score 10 points in a short period of time, and finally completely extinguished the hope of the Shandong team to win with 110:100.
In fact, the Shandong team did a very good job in this game, especially the rebounds with 48:36 and 12 more than the Shanghai team, and the key is that the frontcourt rebounds with 15:9 are 6 more than the Shanghai team. The outside three-point shooting rate reached 40%, although there is still a slight gap with the 45.5% of the Shanghai team, but compared with the previous games, the Shandong team has achieved the extreme. The reason why the Shandong team lost in the end was that the defensive end did not do enough for the targeted defense of Bledsoe, the main scorer of the Shanghai team, and the control of the mistakes was not fully in place. Look at the defensive intensity of the Shanghai team Liu Peng's guidance for the Shandong team's outside line, basically carrying out the trapping tactics throughout the whole process, although it did not completely limit Shayok and Gillenwater, it still allowed Gillenwater to get 14 points and 7 boards, and Shayok to get 17 points and 7 boards. However, there is still a significant gap compared to the comprehensive data of Bledsoe, a foreign aid of the Shanghai team, of 39 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks, even if Bacon did not play well in this game, he still got 15 points and 4 rebounds.
This may be the biggest gap between the Shandong team and the Shanghai team on the defensive end, especially at the last critical moment, in addition to unlimited consumption of Shayok, even Shayok is not given the opportunity to receive the ball. This game is not for the key players of the Shandong team, Gao Shiyan and Tao Hanlin, to play the brilliant data of the Gong Xiaobin era, I am afraid that the Shandong team has already been spent by the Shanghai team. In this game, Gao Shiyan scored a team-high 24 points and gave 10 assists to his teammates, which can be said to have completely played the feeling of being under the guidance of Gong Xiaobin. Similarly, Tao Hanlin, as an interior player, also got a double-double of 22 points and 10 rebounds, in addition, Tao Hanlin did a very good job of restricting Wang Zhelin and Yan Pengfei on the inside. only let Wang Zhelin get 18 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals, and did not easily let Wang Zhelin play 20+ data, Yan Pengfei only had 2 points, 1 block and 1 turnover. It was the 46 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists contributed by the two cores, Gao Shiyan and Tao Hanlin, that allowed the Shandong team to keep the score tight and never be opened up by the Shanghai team.
For the Shandong team, although the first three quarters and even the opening stage of the last quarter have been suppressed by the Shanghai team, from the 10 minutes and 50 seconds of the last quarter, the Shandong team has basically been in the lead, and maintained this advantage until 6 and a half minutes in the final quarter. Although the Shanghai team completed the overtake, the score gap has been about 1 goal, and the maximum gap is 5 points, but it has not been maintained for a long time. Especially in the last 3 minutes, the Shandong team always clung to the score, and until 1 minute and 56 seconds, the Shandong team basically maintained a slight gap of 2 points. With Gao Shiyan's two free throws, the Shandong team completely turned the score into a 100:100 draw in 1 minute and 56 seconds, and the two teams returned to the same running line. At this time, the pressure on the Shanghai team is far greater than that of the Shandong team, after all, it is basically leading the whole game, and it is overtaken by the opponent under the gaze of the home fans. In addition, the Shanghai team is also the only team with four foreign players in the new season, although the big foreign players did not appear, but losing this game will be more questioned by fans.
But I didn't expect that in the crucial 1 minute and 40 seconds, the Shandong team once again had a serious leakage problem on the defensive end. At the last moment of the game, Liu Peng, the director of the Shanghai team, basically did not dare to make substitution adjustments easily, so the team from 10 minutes and 49 seconds after the substitution, until the end of the game, it was always the inside line Wang Zhelin and Ren Junwei partnered, the guard line Luo Hanchen and Bledsoe partnered, and the front line retained the defensive titan Liu Zheng. As for the Shandong team, in addition to the need to wrap Bledsoe at the last moment, it also needs to focus on the outside of the Shanghai team, after all, the five people on the court have the ability to shoot three-pointers. Therefore, it is better to miss the basket than to easily let go of the opportunity to shoot three points from the outside. But unexpectedly, the Shandong team let Ren Junwei shoot 2 three-pointers from the outside in succession within 1 minute and 40 seconds, and completed a rebound under the basket, and scored another 2 points through free throws. In the last 1 minute or so, all the points of the Shanghai team were completed by Ren Junwei alone, and he scored 10 points to kill the game. In the end, the Shanghai team won the Shandong team through this 10-point lead.
In fact, when Ren Junwei completed the three-point shooting at 45 degrees on the line for the first time in 1 minute and 40 seconds, the Shandong team called a timeout, as if it had made a targeted arrangement, but it seemed to be aimed at Bledsoe. You must know that at this time, the Shandong team was only 3 points behind the Shanghai team 100:103. The psychological gap is not big, the key is to do a good job defensively, especially on the outside. Unfortunately, after Ren Junwei made a three-pointer at 1:40, when the Shanghai team had 56 seconds left, Ren Junwei almost got another opportunity to shoot from the outside in the same position. The result hit again, and it can be said that it was Ren Junwei's two consecutive three-pointers that completely collapsed the mentality of the Shandong players. Although there are still 56 seconds left, the players on the field of the Shandong team are Tao Hanlin, Gao Shiyan, Jia Cheng, Zhang Hui and Shayok. At this time, as long as the Shandong team calms down and plays slowly, there is still a chance, but with Tao Hanlin's flying buckle not being scored, the Shandong team seems to have completely lost its spirit.
The foul on the defensive end and the leakage under the basket, the Shanghai team scored consecutive points, completely depriving the Shandong team of the chance to win. In the end, the Shanghai team relied on Ren Junwei's key 10 points to win the game.