Shanghai and Zhejiang Chouzhou are the only teams to enter the tie-break five battle, although the overall record of the Shanghai team in the regular season is not as good as that of Zhejiang Chouzhou, and the two teams have met three times, and the Shanghai team has lost to the opponent by a large score twice. But in the playoffs, the Shanghai team seemed to have found the feeling of a strong team, and in the case of losing one game first, it actually pulled the big score into a 2:2 draw, and the two teams returned to the same running line in the fifth battle. Unexpectedly, although the Shanghai team was at a disadvantage in the first three quarters, the score was always around 10 points, and most of the time it was below 10 points. Surprisingly, in the final quarter, within 6 minutes to be exact, the Shanghai team dug a huge hole of 20 points for themselves, although at this time the Shanghai team timed out to try to make the players adjust their minds and play back. It's a pity that the mistakes and the negligence on the defensive end appeared one after another, and finally collapsed directly, and lost the game with a huge margin of 29 points, and the result that could have left with his head held high was not even the last trace of dignity.
The tie-break is even more stressful for Zhejiang Chouzhou, after all, the Shanghai team is the sixth team in the league in the regular season, even if it does not finish the following gram to become the top four in the playoffs. But since it can play the tie-break battle, it shows that the overall strength of the two teams is not too different, even if they lose, it is only a millimeter, but I didn't expect the Shanghai team to lose by 29 points with 82:111. This seems to be a bit undesirable, and the main thing is that the maximum score difference has reached as much as 32 points, which shows that the mentality of the Shanghai team has completely gone wrong. In fact, in the first half of the game, although the Shanghai team was beaten 9:0 by Zhejiang Chouzhou at the beginning, on the whole, the Shanghai team did a good job on the defensive end. In particular, it has done a good job in restricting Wu Qian. In the first half of the game, Wu Qian, who started the game, played nearly 21 minutes, only scored 5 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, shot 2 of 11, and only 1 of 8 three-pointers. This is the main reason why the Shanghai team has been able to keep the score from being pulled away.
As the inner core of the Shanghai team, Wang Zhelin did not perform very well in this game, playing 32 minutes and 34 seconds in the whole game, only 2 of 9 sluggish performances, only 7 points, 7 rebounds and 4 fouls, and it was extremely frustrating to go down early in the last quarter to admit defeat. But the Shanghai team's loss should not put all the blame on Wang Zhelin alone, after all, the team played very jerky at the beginning of the game, and the continuous mistakes and inability to play the same cooperation as the previous game have always made Wang Zhelin turn back and run, and this kind of physical consumption slowly lost all confidence. The reason why the Shanghai team failed was that Bledsoe, a small foreign aid, needed to bear a lot of responsibility. As the core of the starter, Bledsoe did not help the team much at the beginning of this game, on the contrary, Bledsoe made as many as 6 mistakes in the first half of the game for nearly 13 minutes, which caused the team to suffer a serious psychological blow on the offensive end. What's more, his personal offense was only 4-of-9 shooting, 2-of-3 three-pointers, and 2-of-3 free throws, with only 12 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists in the first half.
As the core player of the team, Wang Zhelin got a big double-double of 31 points and 14 rebounds in the last game, and this game will definitely become the focus of Zhejiang Chouzhou, especially Bledsoe and Wang Zhelin's blocking and dismantling cooperation, which has made Zhejiang Chouzhou suffer in the last game. Therefore, Zhejiang Chouzhou will do everything to limit the cooperation of Wang Zhelin and Bledsoe in this game, as the head coach of the Shanghai team, Liu Peng should predict this, make a plan in advance, once the two encounter strict defense, how the team breaks the game is the key. Unfortunately, the Shanghai team didn't seem to have a better way to deal with it throughout the game, once Wang Zhelin couldn't avoid Yu Jiahao's defense on the inside, and after the basket offense was blocked, he used Bledsoe's breakthrough to try to create outside projection space for the team. It's a pity that the overall outside feel of the Shanghai team in this game is not good, except for Liu Zheng, the other players are too nervous, and even a little hesitant to shoot, it is this timid style of play that makes it difficult for the Shanghai team to play their own offensive rhythm.
In fact, as a whole in the first three quarters, although the Shanghai team fell behind in an all-round way, the gap in each quarter was not too big. In the first quarter, the Shanghai team only trailed by 4 points at 23:27, and in the second quarter at 24:28, the Shanghai team only trailed by 4 points in a single quarter, and at the end of the first half, the Shanghai team trailed by a total of 8 points at 47:55. Such a margin is acceptable, after all, there are still 24 minutes in the second half and anything can happen. Even though the third quarter was still behind, it was only 6 points behind in a single quarter at 19:25, and although the gap was a bit big at the end of the third quarter, it was only 66:80 and lost by 14 points. This is completely acceptable, after all, against a strong team, as long as you are not pulled away by more than 15 points or even 20 points, it is difficult for anyone to guarantee the outcome of the game. But the Shanghai team, which is not good at playing against the wind, actually broke the defense completely in the last quarter, from 9 minutes and 57 seconds in the last quarter, the Shanghai team has scored 75 points, but the 75 points have been maintained until 3 minutes and 3 seconds, and the Shanghai team not only did not score 1 point in more than 6 minutes, so that Zhejiang Chouzhou played a 20:0 climax. This also directly led to the team losing by 15 points in the final quarter at 16:31.
Wang Zhelin really didn't play well in this game, and he will definitely encounter criticism from the fans again after the game, but the pot of the comprehensive defeat in this game really shouldn't be carried by Wang Zhelin alone. Although it seems difficult to limit Yu Jiahao's play while not being able to score on the inside, you must know that the young Yu Jiahao not only has a physical advantage, but also a height advantage, and more importantly, Zhejiang Chouzhou can share the pressure on Yu Jiahao's players In addition to Liu Zeyi, Lu Wenbo, Wu Qian, Gailey and even the little foreign aid Jones can play a role in attracting the bag. In addition to Liu Zheng's active steals and outside three-point shooting, we can only watch the performance of foreign aids, Bledsoe's too many mistakes caused the team to completely lose the confidence of the offense, and the defensive end, especially in the last quarter, completely gave up the outside line, not only Wu Qian could easily find a chance to shoot, Lu Wenbo and Jones could easily shoot. Although Bacon's singles ability is good, he can't blindly rely on one person to help the team complete everything in the chasing stage!
In addition, the Shanghai team is not good at playing against the wind in the regular season, and once the team falls behind, not only can it not find the slightest way on the offensive end, but it is also full of loopholes on the defensive end. Therefore, this game was brutalized by Zhejiang Chouzhou for 29 points, in addition to Wang Zhelin, the small foreign aid has a certain responsibility, and the guidance of head coach Liu Peng is absolutely difficult to get rid of.