The first round of the CBA playoffs 12-8 will open on April 10, and the four groups of teams that are fighting are the top half of the region: Guangsha (5) vs Shanxi (12), Shenzhen (8) vs Beikong (9);
Bottom half: Shanghai (6) vs Beijing (11), Qingdao (7) vs Guangzhou (10).
Below, let's analyze the arms race (personnel combat power reserve) between the eight teams in the first round:
Guangsha and Shanxi this group, Shanxi did not have a shortage of main forces, this year's Shanxi results are not as good as last year, but from the perspective of foreign aid, this year's Shanxi is upgraded, Taylor is better than last year's Weems, Schwade is taller than Field, more calm-headed, but the disadvantage is that the physical fitness is not enough, so Shanxi also found a Botwright as the third foreign aid, this person's performance in the game against Liaoning is a must, and now he is also included in the Philippines as a naturalized player, optimistic that he will become the X factor of this group of games.
Sun Minghui basically won't play in the first round, judging from his recent rehabilitation video, Sun Minghui still can't land on the court with both feet for high-intensity training, in order to maintain the muscle explosiveness of the injured leg, Sun Minghui can only choose to conduct high-intensity training in the pool, the advantage of this is that you can use the buoyancy of the water to reduce the load of your own weight on the injured leg, and you can use the resistance of the water to play the effect of weight training.
In order to cope with Sun Minghui's absence, Wang Bo has been trying to find a way in the past few days, in the existing lineup, he has created two stand-ins for Sun Minghui, one is permission, and the other is Jordan Floyd;
Permission gets a lot of playing time after Sun Minghui's injury, and the performance can only be said to be decent, as long as the opponent covers him, it is easy to make mistakes, but Xu Xu can also hit some difficult balls under high pressure, which can be regarded as a progress;
Of course, Wang Bo mainly values Jordan, and the fourth quarter of the last few Guangsha games has basically been dominated by Jordan, and his performance is decent, but Jordan should have a bright performance in the first round. First, in the last three rounds of the regular season, he played against Guangdong, Zhejiang and Liaoning, all of which are the teams with the highest defensive intensity in the league.
Guangzhou and Qingdao this group, Qingdao personnel reserves are relatively sufficient, on the contrary, Guangzhou is a little not optimistic, in the game against Tianjin, the big foreign aid camp injured the palm, resulting in a bone crack, the injured camp had to reimburse all the games in the regular season, and according to Guo Shiqiang after the closing game, camp's recovery is not ideal, it is very likely that he will not be able to play the playoffs, which is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for the Guangzhou Dragon Lions.
However, Guo Shiqiang is still a famous coach in the end, he always has a way to find a suitable stand-in in the existing lineup, Li Yanzhe was traded, he trained Jiao Boqiao, Kemp and Jiao Boqiao can't play, then use Yu Xiaohui, the last 3 rounds of the regular season, Yu Xiaohui got a lot of playing time, and unexpectedly got an average of 15.3 points and 7 rebounds per game, which is enough to compare with Li Yanzhe's data when he was in the team, and Yu Xiaohui has a certain projection ability, which will not be too easy to defend for Yang Hansen, who is slow-paced.
But the single foreign aid will not go too far after all, the Guangzhou team will often change to a striker lineup at a certain stage of the game, no center, with Zhu Mingzhen + Cui Yongxi as the inside line to top a rotation, for Qingdao, this is a good opportunity, after all, Qingdao's overall height is better than Guangzhou Longshi.
Shenzhen and Beijing Control, these two teams have similar shortcomings, they don't have too good local point guards, the offensive rhythm depends on foreign aid, North Control's Field, as long as the opponent gives a little psychological interference, he is a time bomb, Shenzhen's new recruit Hill, don't mention it, so in this round of playoffs, Zheng Yonggang basically won't give too much chance, but give time to Sallinger, and reuse Feng Xin, whether Shenzhen can beat Beijing Control, Feng Xin's play is very critical.
The main foreign aid of the two teams is more emotional, Beijing Control also has advantages that Shenzhen does not have, Beijing Control plays more as a whole, the players listen to Min Lulei's words, and Shenzhen's cohesion is not too strong, Zheng Yonggang often can't control the overall situation, so Shenzhen relies on the individual ability of the star at critical moments, and the recent team's record is not ideal, winning are weak teams, losing are strong teams, only from the third stage of the record, Shenzhen is not able to enter the top 10.
Beijing and Shanghai, this group of showdowns, is currently considered by the outside world to be the most likely to play 3 rounds of dialogue, Shanghai has lost a lot of immediate combat power, long-term injuries Wang Zhelin, Liu Zheng, Luo Hanchen, Ren Junwei with a serious decline in personal ability, Li Tianrong who was reimbursed for the season, but fortunately, Dai Hao and Yuan Tangwen have recently returned to the team, plus blood cloth and bacon have been in good form recently, and these two even broke the defense of the Xinjiang team.
With strong foreign aid, coupled with the return of Dai Hao, Li Hongquan's great progress made Liu Peng say something like this after the regular season: We are confident in the playoffs against Beijing. Liu Peng is quite confident, and he must have prepared a way to deal with Beijing.
On the Beijing side, the current situation of the players' health is much stronger than in the second half of the second stage, so this is why they were able to score 8-5 in the third stage to enter the playoffs, and desperately won Shenzhen in the final round to avoid the fifth-place Guangsha and chose Shanghai.
Beijing's advantage lies in the outside three-point and home field advantage (the home field of the second game is very important), while Shanghai is good at speeding up counterattacks, Beijing's disadvantage is that the main team is often slower than some older, head coach Jorio's on-the-spot reaction, if the pace of the game is brought up by Shanghai, it will be quite uncomfortable.