The first team in the lower half of the CBA playoffs semifinals has been officially produced, that is, the Xinjiang men's basketball team, they defeated the Guangzhou men's basketball team away from home, and finally successfully advanced to the semifinals. For the Xinjiang team, this season's large-scale investment has finally paid off, and reaching the semi-finals is considered to have achieved the team's minimum goal. Before the game, everyone was quite optimistic about the Guangzhou men's basketball team, why do you say that? Because after the Guangzhou team defeated the Xinjiang team by a big score in the last game, it has won three games in a row in Xinjiang at its home court, and the total win-win of the three games is 49 points for Xinjiang, which is a very big advantage. In this game, Qiu Biao led his players to reject four consecutive defeats and finally won the first and most important victory of the season in Guangzhou, and advanced to the semi-finals.
In this game, the Xinjiang team and the Guangzhou team played back and forth in the first half, the two sides played a five-five open in the first half, and the first two quarters were tied in each quarter, and it seems that this game is another close contest. But after the start of the third quarter of the game, the defensive intensity of the Xinjiang men's basketball team suddenly rose, which made the Guangzhou team very uncomfortable, the shooting rate dropped sharply, coupled with the lack of rebounding guarantee, and finally the Xinjiang team opened a 16-point gap in a single quarter.
However, for the Guangzhou team, this season is still improving, although they all reached the quarterfinals like last season and ended the season journey, but they won in the quarterfinals this time, which is better than last season. I believe that under the leadership of Guo Shiqiang, this team still has a lot of room for improvement in the future.
What is more embarrassing is that Guo Shiqiang rarely encouraged the players before the game, cheered up the players, and said that he had bought a ticket to the Xinjiang team, but he didn't expect to be slapped in the face with this bold statement. Of course, everyone can also understand that Guo Shiqiang definitely didn't buy a ticket, but just wanted to use this way to motivate the players.
The reason why Guangzhou lost in this game, I think the worst performance may be Cui Yongxi. Although in terms of data, Choi Yong-hee scored 11 points, which seems reasonable, but the shooting rate is extremely low, the three-point shooting rate is 33%, and the overall shooting rate is only 27%, the key is that his defense is very bad and has become the focus of being broken by the opponent, so he scored the worst -29 points in the game, which means that with him on the court, the team will lose close to 30 points. In fact, as soon as the third quarter came up, the Xinjiang team regarded Cui Yongxi as a breakthrough point, and frequently scored points from his point, so that there was no suspense in this game.
After the end of this season, Choi Yong-hee plans to participate in the summer league in the United States to impact the NBA draft, and after the Chinese players go there now, they have no role on the offensive end at all, and they must start with defense first, if only in terms of defense in this game. I think it's completely hopeless for Choi Yong-hee to hit the NBA. On the contrary, Zhao Rui, who came back from the Xinjiang team in the last game, performed very well in this game, getting the highest score among domestic players, and the recovery of his state will be a great addition to the Xinjiang team.