In the CBA semifinals, Guangdong and Liaoning finally came together, and the two teams are very familiar with each other. In the past five seasons, the championship has been won by two teams, Liaoning and Guangdong.
This season, as the defending champion of the Liaoning team, has won two consecutive championships, although the regular season won the first place, but the aging of the team is an indisputable fact, this year will be the Liaoning team to achieve the "three consecutive championships", the establishment of the Liaoning dynasty of the best and last chance.
In the first round of the 1/4 finals, the defending champion Liaoning team eliminated the Shenzhen team with a big score of 3:0. With a net win of 98 points in three games, the team's performance can be like a rainbow!
The series between Guangdong and Guangsha can be described as twists and turns, and finally the Guangdong team eliminated the Guangsha team with a big score of 3:1. However, the winning Guangdong team also paid a heavy price, with center forward Zhou Qi banned for two games (he will not be able to participate in the first semi-final against Liaoning), and power forward Ren Junfei suffered an injury in the fourth game and is doubtful to be able to play in the semi-finals.
With the arrival of Zhou Qi this season, the Guangdong team has been greatly improved at both offensive and defensive ends, and Zhou Qi's deterrence on the inside line is the only one among domestic players. How the Guangdong team responds to this problem is a huge test for Coach Du Feng.
Players in positions on both sides are analysed
Center:
Liaoning team: Han Dejun, Moreland
Guangdong team: Zhou Qi, Zhang Mingchi, Bell
Compared with the game data, the Guangdong team is better than the Liaoning team in the inner line, but Zhou Qi can't play the first ban, although Zhang Mingchi performed well in the 1/4 finals, but he still looks relatively immature in front of the veteran Han and Moreland, and Bell currently has few opportunities to perform in the playoffs, and there is not much room for expectation. In the first game between the two sides, the center position was more optimistic about the Liaoning team.
Forward position:
Liaoning team: Li Xiaoxu, Zhang Zhenlin, Fu Hao, Cong Mingchen, Yan Shouqi and Zhao Shuzhou
Guangdong: Ren Junfei, Du Runwang, Zhang Haojia, Zhang Hao, Huang Mingyi and Weems
Zhang Zhenlin of the Liaoning team should be the strongest player in the forward position, and Ren Junfei of the Guangdong team was injured in the game with the Guangsha team, and it is doubtful whether he can play. The performance of other players in China has been good and bad, but Lao Wei is reliable. On the whole, the forward position is still more optimistic about the Liaoning team.
Guard line:
Liaoning team: Zhao Jiwei, Fogg, Cooper
Guangdong team: Hu Mingxuan, Xu Jie, Waters
In their respective teams, the back line is the stronger point. In particular, Hu Mingxuan of the Guangdong team can score an average of 21 points per game in the four games with Guangsha, and he is in hot form. And Liaoning's new foreign player Cooper was also very efficient in the three games against Shenzhen. In this position, the contrast between the two sides feels like it's five or five, and it can only depend on who plays better on the spot.
The semi-finals between Liaoning and Guangdong will start on May 1, and due to the ban on Zhou Qi of the Guangdong team in the first game, the first game of the two sides is still more optimistic about the Liaoning team.