This season seems to be a bit of a "disaster" for the Shenzhen team, which is aiming to win the championship. Not long after the start of the season, the team suffered a series of injuries, with Rong Zifeng on the back line and foreign aid Macon missing indefinitely due to injury. Unexpectedly, the small foreign players introduced later, whether it was Adams, who was cut, or Hill, who is still playing in the team, seemed to be difficult to integrate with the team. As a result, the more teams try to find a better ranking for themselves before the playoffs, the more they are unable to achieve it. In the final round of the league against Beijing BAIC, the Shenzhen team, which originally had the home advantage, had a chance to complete the reversal and retain the team's seventh position in the league. It's a pity that Shen Zijie, the inside titan in the key game, was absent, which made the Shenzhen team lose the best position in the playoffs and fell to the eighth in the league, completely pushing himself into the bottomless abyss. Even if there is a chance to reach the quarterfinals, it will be difficult to reach the semi-finals in the face of strong teams such as Liaoyue and Zhejiang East Sunshine, who are known for the group of death.
This game is actually a very crucial game for both Beijing BAIC and Shenzhen teams. However, the Shenzhen team seemed to be a little careless, and with home advantage, they finally lost to Beijing BAIC by a slight disadvantage of 102:107. After all, the Shenzhen team won this game, and although the opponent in the playoffs was the Guangzhou team that had doubled in the regular season, after all, after Li Yanzhe left the team, the internal strength of the Guangzhou team has seriously declined. Especially when Shen Zijie came back, plus Li Muhao and Sallinger had more advantages in terms of overall height and strength of internal confrontation. What's more important is that whether it is playing in Guangzhou or Shenzhen, the Shenzhen team does not seem to have the loneliness of playing away, after all, fighting in the same province, most fans will not favor one over the other. There is also the advantage of the Shenzhen team in seventh place is that once the first round of the playoffs beats Guangzhou, the next face is the Xinjiang team, although the overall strength of the Xinjiang team has also improved a lot this season, but it is better to play than the traditional champion team Liaoning.
Once lucky enough to pass the Xinjiang hurdle again, it will also have a psychological advantage in the face of last season's old rival Zhejiang Chouzhou, after all, the two teams played inextricably in the semifinals last season. But now after being defeated by Beijing BAIC, they came to the group of death in the upper half, even if they were fortunate to beat the strong Liaoning team in the quarterfinals, but the opponents behind them, whether they were Zhejiang East Sunshine or Guangdong team, seemed to be particularly difficult for the Shenzhen team. After all, this season's regular season was killed by Zhejiang East Sunshine, and although it was a draw with the Guangdong team, the Shenzhen team lost more and won less in the past, especially in the key games, the Shenzhen team rarely won the opponent. In this way, the Shenzhen team has forced itself into the abyss. The reluctance to compete with the Shanghai team for sixth place seems to be consciously avoiding the top half, but in the crucial game of the final round, he sent himself to the death group again.
Perhaps the Shenzhen team, which was the first to shout the slogan of winning the championship, really missed the championship, because every season when it comes to the critical game moment, the Shenzhen team will make some inevitable mistakes, which eventually leads to the loss of a good situation for the team.
Beijing BAIC can be said to be the most serious team in recent seasons, and the consecutive wins at the beginning of the season even let the team see the dawn of returning to the championship again. Even almost lost the qualification for the playoffs due to injuries, but in the third stage, Beijing BAIC seems to be a bit of a thick accumulation, although it still has not climbed over the mountains of Xinjiang, Guangdong and other strong teams, and even midstream teams such as Shanxi have lost by 8 points. But the playoff situation at that time seemed to be unclear, especially when Sun Minghui of the Zhejiang East Sunshine team was absent due to injury, the team's record was declining all the way, and it was even expected to be surpassed by the Shanghai team behind. This may also be a strategic abandonment of Beijing BAIC. But as the last round of the game, after the first half of the team and the second half of the region are basically clear, Beijing BAIC will not be soft to take the Shenzhen team, although it is an away game, and even in the third quarter has been behind, Beijing BAIC still stubbornly won the opponent and won the best position in the playoffs for itself.
Compared with the Shenzhen team, Beijing BAIC played a more team in this game, in addition to the starting Fan Ziming 20 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist, Lief 19 points, 14 rebounds and 7 assists and Raymond 14 points and 5 rebounds scored double-doubles, Zeng Fanbo as a substitute 11 points and 7 rebounds and Booker 22 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists also scored double-digit points. In this way, Beijing BAIC still has a lot of scoring points, and in addition, Fang Shuo, as a starter, also got 9 points and 6 assists, close to the last double. This is incomparable to the Shenzhen team, as a Shenzhen team with as many as 5 national team levels before and after, the team seems to have always relied on the big foreign aid Sallinger, in addition, it is He Xining. For the opponent, the defensive end seems to be much easier, as long as the key scorers are limited, others can be put in a proper way, but the Shenzhen team does not seem to realize this, and this game once again uses Sallinger and He Xining as the tactical starting point.
Therefore, only three Shenzhen team scored double-doubles in this game, except for Sallinger with 38 points, 14 rebounds and 4 assists, He Xining with 30 points, 2 rebounds and 7 assists, and only young guard Sun Haoqin with 11 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists. As the team's veteran Zhou Peng, Gu Quan and even the small foreign aid Hill all score in single digits, and it is very difficult for such a concentrated scoring point to defeat a team basketball like Beijing BAIC. Beijing BAIC did play a strong team style in this game, and was able to complete a strong comeback away from home, which is not only a confidence boost for this season's team, but also pushed itself to the bottom half of the zone, and the first round of the Shanghai team still has a chance to complete the following grams. Although the Shanghai team's overall record this season is good, the team is facing serious injuries, coupled with the overall height advantage of the front, Beijing BAIC's key battle has completely freed the team from a season's predicament. Once the following is completed, the next quarter-finals against Zhejiang Chouzhou will also be relatively easy than playing against Guangdong.
No matter what the game, in addition to the overall strength, sometimes you really need luck to win the championship, but most of the luck also depends on the hard work of the whole team. Maybe Beijing BAIC will become one of the lucky teams in the playoffs because of this crucial game.