The battle between the Liaoning team and the Xinjiang team can be said to be more than fierce and not exciting. There were a lot of mistakes on both sides. For Liaoning, it was a war of attrition, but the good news was that Liaoning won the game to consolidate the top spot. On the whole, the best player in this game is definitely Zhang Zhenlin, who played at a critical moment to help the team determine the victory, but I think the focus today is on a starter of the Liaoning men's basketball team, Yan Shouqi, who is not obvious.
If Zhang Zhenlin is the best player in this game, I think the second best player should be Yan Shouqi, Yan Shouqi played 21 minutes in this game, although only 4 points were scored, especially in the second and third quarters, he still seemed a little hesitant in the offense, but his defense became an important guarantee for the Liaoning men's basketball team to win this game, so in the case of only 4 points, he played +14 The second highest plus/minus in the game. This fully shows that he used his defense and active scrambling to help the Liaoning team complete a difficult victory in this game and consolidate his defensive position in the standings when he may not have contributed much on the offensive end.
Especially in the second half, Yan Shouqi's defensive steal gave the Xinjiang team great psychological pressure, and the defensive momentum he brought made the other players of the Liaoning men's basketball team who were not going well in this game also deeply infected. The defensive attitude of the athletes on the field is easy and is driven by their teammates. Everyone sees that you are a player who works so hard, especially Yan Shouqi is not a star player in the team, and other core players like Zhang Zhenlin, Han Dejun, Li Xiaoxu, and Zhao Jiwei will naturally be encouraged. Yan Shouqi's salary is not as high as these people, people are working so hard with such a low salary, these players with high salaries or even the highest salary cannot lose to Yan Shouqi.
Looking at the final score, this game is actually a defensive battle, and both sides are not playing very well in the attack, so whoever is tougher in defense and who can grit their teeth and stick to that moment will be able to win this difficult game. Obviously, the Liaoning team eventually did just that. I think in defense, it is Yan Shouqi who really awakens everyone's enthusiasm for defense.
With Yan Shouqi's excellent performance in recent games, I think that for some other defenders of the Liaoning team, there may not be any chance to play in the playoffs, or even a chance to be in the squad. Because the current back line of the Liaoning team is not very saturated if Yan Shouqi is added.
Guo Allen will definitely usher in a comeback in the playoffs in the future, Zhao Jiwei is the core of the team, and Fogg doesn't need to say that these three people must have a lot of playing time, and even all of them are core players, plus a Yan Shouqi, it is absolutely enough for the four guards to rotate in the playoffs. And Cong Mingchen this season also plays the No. 2 position a lot of the time, so like Zhang Junhao, Li Huyi, including Zhou Juncheng, who gave a lot of playing time in the first two games, it is estimated that it will be difficult to go in the playoffs. When they play, even if they can barely make it to the game list, they are just spare tires, and we can even say that they are water cooler players, and it is probably impossible to get the opportunity to play.