CBA semi-final preview-Liaoning and Guangdong grievances are unpredictable
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 11. On the 12th, the semi-finals of the 2021-2022 Chinese Men's Basketball Professional League (CBA) will start. The opponents of the finals of the first two seasons, Liaoning and Guangdong, will meet in advance. This season, the "dark horse" Shanghai will play against Zhejiang Guangsha. Shanghai's new coach Li Chunjiang has coached Guangsha for seven years, while Guangsha head coach Wang Bo was Li Chunjiang's assistant coach for many years. One of the highlights of the Shanghai-Zhejiang dispute.
For two consecutive seasons, Liaoning faced Guangdong in the finals. This season, Liaoning has ranked first in the regular season, and the current lineup is strong. The eight-in-four faced Shanxi. Although they fell behind by 17 points in the second game, they still achieved a reversal through the outbreak of Guo Ailun, Zhang Zhenlin and others, and advanced to the semi-finals with a big score of 2:0. Although Guangdong fell out of the top four in the regular season, the playoffs still swept the "dark horse" Tianjin and the strong Zhejiang Chouzhou successively with two 2:0 in the playoffs, demonstrating the heritage of three consecutive champions.
The Liao and Guangdong teams have no secrets from each other. The backline is a national-level duel. Guangdong Hu Mingxuan, Zhao Rui, and Xu Jie have no absolute advantage on paper against Liaoning Guo Ailun and Zhao Jiwei. In terms of foreign aid, Guangdong's Weems has a more stable performance than Liaoning's Fogg, and has repeatedly staged a good show of riding the savior alone. In the first game of the first round of the playoffs against Tianjin, Weems made 11 of 11 shots and is currently in full swing.
However, in the strike and inside, Guangdong's selection of personnel is somewhat stretched. On the front line, it is uncertain whether Guangdong Ren Junfei will return. Veteran Zhou Peng has supported the playoffs for four games alone, averaging more than 37 minutes per game. Facing 23-year-old Zhang Zhenlin from Liaoning, Zhou Peng's physical fitness may face challenges. And Yi Jianlian is still the person that Guangdong can rely on most when fighting tough battles. In the semifinals, the 35-year-old veteran may have to face Liaoning Han Dejun, Fu Hao and Morand in turns.
However, Guangdong is by no means a threshold that can be easily crossed. The outcome of the match between Liaoning and Guangdong is likely to be decided at the last minute.
The Shanghai-Zhejiang showdown in the other half is also full of highlights and suspense. This season, Li Chunjiang will attract attention every time he leads Shanghai to meet his old club Guangsha. Guangsha coach Wang Bo was an assistant coach during Li Chunjiang’s period. Hu Jinqiu and other Guangsha main players are all players who grew up under Li Chunjiang. Shanghai knows Guangsha well.
On the other hand, Guangsha is superior in lineup thickness and experience. Since the 2007-2008 season, Guangsha has entered the playoffs every year, and has had one finals experience; Shanghai is the first time in 12 years to enter the semifinals of the playoffs. In terms of lineup, the generals of Guangsha have cooperated for many years. The main lineup has all played in the finals of the 2017-2018 season. Compared with the new lineup formed by Shanghai this season, it has experienced more tough battles.
But Shanghai's new lineup also produced a surprising chemical reaction under the training of Li Chunjiang. Shanghai ranked third in the regular season, and new aid Wang Zhelin became the core of the attack. His inside matchup with Hu Jinqiu will also be interesting. In the two meetings between the two teams in the regular season, Wang Zhelin played once and handed over a large "double-double" of 28 points and 17 rebounds, beating Hu Jinqiu's 19 points and 6 rebounds. reluctantly.
In another match in which Wang Zhelin did not play, Shanghai was defeated by 42 points. In this game, Franklin and Feng Lai, the two major foreign aids in Shanghai, also took a break, so this difference does not seem to reflect the real strength comparison between the two teams.
On the evening of the 12th, the first match of Liaoning and Guangdong will start first. The first battle between Shanghai and Guangsha will sound the whistle on the 13th. The semi-finals will be based on a best-of-five format.
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