Tomorrow night, in the first leg of the CBA playoffs semifinals, the Liaoning men's basketball team will face Guangdong Hongyuan at home, and the game will officially start. Before the start of the game, the Liaoning team also received a piece of good news first, the core of the team Guo Allen had flown from Madrid to Shanghai Pudong Airport in the early morning of the day before yesterday, and flew back to Shenyang from Shanghai last night, and can join the team today. After two months of rehabilitation, Guo Allen finally returned to Shenyang, whether he played in tomorrow night's game or not, it was a great encouragement and help for the Liaoning basketball players, and the starting list of the Liaoning men's basketball team for the first leg of the semifinals was also about to be released.
If nothing else, in tomorrow night's game, the Liaoning men's basketball team will choose to use Han Dejun, Li Xiaoxu, Zhang Zhenlin, Zhao Jiwei and Fogg as the starting list. Many people may not understand why they did not choose to use Moreland as the first starter in this game, because Zhou Qi is still banned in the first leg of the semifinals, so the pressure on the Liaoning men's basketball team on the inside will be much less, Guangdong Hongyuan can only use Xu Xin as the starter, and it is more than enough to use Han Dejun to face Xu Xin, plus the protection of the two veterans for inside rebounding, in fact, the Liaoning men's basketball team used Han Dejun and Li Xiaoxu in the opening stage, which is enough to solve the problem of the inside line.
Without Zhou Qi, Guangdong Hongyuan will definitely choose to speed up, they will definitely do everything possible to push a quick counterattack with Hu Mingxuan, Xu Jie and others in the backcourt, if Waters finds an offensive feeling from the opening stage, then it will be difficult for the Liaoning men's basketball team to curb his momentum. Therefore, in this game, Yang Ming put Fogg into the starter, and he partnered with Zhao Jiwei in the backcourt, so that whether it was to use Ferg to defend Waters one-on-one, or in the face of Guangdong Hongyuan's blocking and dismantling cover, using Fogg and Zhao Jiwei to convert people to defend in turn, it is equivalent to saying that the Liaoning men's basketball team can always ensure the defensive hardness on the court, so as to limit Guangdong Hongyuan's backcourt.
And if the Liaoning men's basketball team wants to win this game, it must also make good use of the bench thickness advantage of the team in the rotation lineup stage, whether it is to replace Fogg with Moreland, further improve the flexibility and hardness of the interior line, or replace Zhao Jiwei with Cooper, any partner Yan Shouqi or Cong Mingchen as the backcourt, or even directly use Zhao Jiwei and Cooper's dual-energy guard combination, which can completely fill the team's offensive routines。 All in all, in the case of Zhou Qi's inability to play, the Liaoning men's basketball team will definitely win the game in a relatively easy state, after all, without Zhou Qi's containment on the inside, the Liaoning men's basketball team only needs to focus on restricting a few guards from Guangdong Hongyuan, which will make the defensive pressure of the whole team much less.
As for Guo Allen, I personally think that he will not play directly in tomorrow night's game, on the one hand, he has not participated in an official game for almost four months, and as soon as he comes back, he will face the stage of high-intensity confrontation in the playoffs, which is obviously not conducive to Guo Allen's physical adaptation; on the other hand, because Guo Allen has been in a state of continuous flight since the day before yesterday, plus there is a time difference of six or seven hours between Spain and China, so Guo Allen also needs a period of time to adjust, according to the plan of the team's coaching staff, I still hope that Guo Allen will temporarily follow the team for recovery training, and when he will come back, it depends on his performance on the training groundIf the Liaoning men's basketball team really hits a critical moment in this round of the series, and Yang Ming needs Guo Allen to come on the court to help the team, then I believe that Guo Allen will choose to come back without hesitation. There is no need to be frustrated for the fans, because even if Guo Allen cannot play in tomorrow night's game, I believe he will definitely come to the home stadium to meet the fans who have been absent for a long time.