In the first game of the semi-finals between Shanghai and Zhejiang Chouzhou, although the Shanghai team played away, it took a 5-0 lead at the beginning and played the momentum and confidence of the home team, and was almost considered the team most likely to complete the following grams. Especially in the regular season three times against Zhejiang Chouzhou without a chance of winning, the Shanghai team did not have the slightest timidity, which increased the possibility of the Shanghai team away from home. But unexpectedly, in the case of a stalemate of three and a half quarters, the Shanghai team did not withstand the pressure in the last five minutes, and finally lost the first game of the quarterfinals with a huge gap of 16 points. If you have to find a back-up man for the Shanghai team, in addition to Wang Zhelin and Bledsoe, there is no doubt that Liu Peng, as the head coach, needs to take on more responsibilities.
The ups and downs of the Shanghai team this season are indeed a bit big, especially in the first two stages, there is almost no hope of the playoffs. However, after the adjustment of the Shanghai team in the second half of the second stage and the third stage, the team gradually regained the feeling of the top four. And in the playoffs, facing the former champion team Beijing BAIC, although the winner was finally decided after three duels, it was obvious that the overall strength and bench thickness of the Shanghai team were better than Beijing BAIC. Although facing Zhejiang Chouzhou, the team's young defender Dai Hao faced a two-game ban, but after all, there are many people playing in the Shanghai team, especially young players, who can almost play a certain role in key games. Coupled with the comeback of Yuan Tangwen, who was introduced in the offseason, even if he played away from home, and there was the psychological impact of not winning a game in the regular season, the Shanghai team played a home advantage, and played a 5:0 lead in Zhejiang Chouzhou at the beginning. Although it was once tied or even overtaken by Zhejiang Chouzhou in the middle, the Shanghai team was always able to maintain strong offensive firepower and completed the overtake three times in the third quarter of the game.
Originally, I thought that the Shanghai team would be able to get off to a good start in this game, and if they can take away a win away from home under the best-of-five system, then the chances of reaching the semifinals will be greatly surged. But unfortunately, in this game, Liu Peng's experience in the competition and on-the-spot response do not seem to be as good as Wang Shilong's guidance, especially for Liu Zeyi's defense on the Zhejiang Chouzhou front, there seems to be no effective way. What's more, Zhejiang Chouzhou's foreign aid Perry also played an extremely important role. In this game, Liu Zeyi and Perry can be said to be the most effective surprise soldiers who finally defeated the Shanghai team. Liu Zeyi played nearly 41 minutes as a starter and got 29 points and 8 rebounds, which is understandable, after all, he has played for a long time, and such efficiency is acceptable. But Perry, as a big foreign aid, is not only a substitute in the bench, that is, the third foreign aid, but played 26 minutes in this game, but let him get a big double-double of 34 points and 12 rebounds. Originally, Yu Jiahao, who Wang Shilong relied on, played a lot of time in this game. This is the genius of Wang Shilong's guidance on the spot.
As the starter, Yu Jiahao must have been made a key defense plan by the Shanghai team before the game, after all, Zhejiang Chouzhou's interior rotation players are very limited, as long as Yu Jiahao is restricted, the outside three points of Zhejiang Chouzhou's guard line are used as a key defense, which is basically equivalent to limiting Zhejiang Chouzhou's offense. It's a pity that Liu Peng's guidance ignored an important link, that is, Liu Zeyi, who had said before that if the Shanghai team wants to reverse the game, in addition to limiting the outside three-point, it should focus on Liu Zeyi. Because, as players on the front line, Wang Zilu and Lu Wenbo have relatively single functions, and there are many people available on the front line of the Shanghai team, Li Hongquan, Liu Zheng, and even Liu Zhengqing and Li Tianrong can complete the defense of the two. But the only thing that can't be defended is Liu Zeyi. After all, Liu Zeyi can play both the No. 4 position and the No. 5 position, whether it is offensive and defensive at both ends, Li Hongquan, Liu Zheng or Li Tianrong of the Shanghai team are basically difficult to rely on personal ability to limit Liu Zeyi's play.
As expected, this game never achieved the goal of restricting Liu Zeyi. In addition, although the Shanghai team limited the play of Wu Qian, Cheng Shuaipeng and even Wang Yibo on the back line. Wu Qian only scored 11 points and 4 steals in the whole game, but he handed out 14 assists, Cheng Shuai Peng only got 13 points and 7 assists, and Wang Yibo only scored 14 points. But the Shanghai team's loss was lost on the two points of Liu Zeyi and the big foreign aid Perry. One is that Zhejiang Chouzhou has repeatedly used the guard line and the inside line to complete the score, and has been playing Wang Zhelin, Yan Pengfei's footsteps are too slow, and it is tried and tested. But Liu Peng's guidance does not seem to have a good solution, except for Wang Zhelin and Yan Pengfei who do not suffer in height, the other players of the Shanghai team seem to be a little disadvantaged by the two of them, especially the height and lack of confrontation ability. Therefore, in the last 5 minutes of the game, Zhejiang Chouzhou can continue to use these two strong points to punish the Shanghai team's inside line. As a result, the gap between the scores suddenly widened to 16 points in five minutes.
In fact, the Shanghai team can use the lineup under Li Chunjiang's guidance to crack it, that is, to make good use of Ren Junwei. Although Ren Junwei has not averaged too many points per game, his role on the defensive end cannot be ignored, as long as his personal fighting spirit is stimulated, he can still bring help to Shanghai Pair. Especially in a key game like the playoffs, not only do you have a wealth of playoff experience, but the main thing is that you don't suffer from height confrontation. It's a pity that Ren Junwei didn't get much playing time in this game, Li Hongquan and Liu Zheng both played very well overall, but the positions of the two seem to overlap a bit. Especially when Bledsoe held the ball, Wang Zhelin blocked and dismantled, and Liu Zheng and Li Hongquan took the initiative to run to the bottom corner, seemingly waiting for Bledsoe to give him an assist three-point opportunity. The offensive end can't share more pressure on Wang Zhelin inside, after all, his height is limited, especially in the face of Perry. Therefore, Ren Junwei is the best choice, when Director Wang Shilong has always chosen to believe in Liu Zeyi's partner Perry in the last quarter, Director Liu Peng should use the combination of Wang Zhelin, Ren Junwei and Liu Zheng to deal with it.
This may not allow Zhejiang Chouzhou to easily widen the difference to more than 10 points in the final quarter, after all, the scores of the two teams have been relatively close in three and a half quarters. But in the crucial last quarter, the Shanghai team did not hold on to the last 5 minutes, in addition to Bledsoe's early foul and Bacon's emotional impact, the main responsibility is that Liu Peng guided the final personnel adjustment to make the Shanghai team a failure, 16 points regrettable loss to the opponent.