On January 1, 2022, Beijing time, the CBA regular season ushered in the heavy drama of the New Year's Day war, and the reenactment of the finals between Guangdong and Liaoning in three games is undoubtedly the most anticipated by the outside world. However, before the start of this focus event, the Guangdong men's basketball team suffered the blow of personnel absence, and the national player Zhao Rui could not play because of family matters, and was absent from the New Year's Day war.
In fact, Zhao Rui did not attend the past two games, according to Guangdong coach Du Feng, Zhao Rui temporarily left the Changchun division because he had something to deal with at home, and there was no specific time for when he would return. This means that the Guangdong men's basketball team will need to encounter a shortage of defender line personnel for some time to come.
In this Liaoning-Guangdong war, Du Feng has to face a team with the strength to win the championship, although the past two seasons of Guangdong team have defeated Liaoning to win the championship, but so far this season, the performance of Guangdong team is not as good as Liaoning, the first 16 rounds of regular season, Guangdong 12 wins and 4 losses, as a comparison, Liaoning is 14 wins and 2 losses. Playing 16 rounds to lose 4 games, this report card is the worst in 4 years of the Guangdong men's basketball team, which fully reflects the current plight of the Guangdong team.
The Liaoning men's basketball team is strong in this game, the core scorer Guo Allen was expelled last game, but according to the new regulations will not affect the appearance of this game, the other three national players Zhao Jiwei, Zhang Zhenlin and Han Dejun are in good shape, plus the combination of Foreign Aid of Fogg and Moland, a number of injured players such as Liu Zhixuan, Wu Changze also all returned from injury, and this Liaoning team at this stage has an absolute advantage in paper strength.
On the other hand, on the Guangdong side, there is less Zhao Rui in the backcourt, Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie need to pair guo allen and Zhao Jiwei, the pressure is very high, although Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie have made rapid progress in recent years, but there is still a gap compared with Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei. In terms of foreign aid, Guangdong team also only has Weems, which needs to take on a lot of offensive responsibility, but in the past two games, Weems averaged only 12.5 points per game, and since the second stage of return, Weems has not found the best personal state, which is also what Du Feng needs to solve. In terms of other players, Guangdong team entered the second stage and injured Zhang Hao and Zhang Haojia, which means that Du Feng's tactical use cannot be as flexible as in the past
Of course, although the Guangdong team is at the lowest point in the past four years, they are a team that has just created 3 consecutive championships, has a winning culture, and the leader of the last game, Yi Jianlian, scored 25 points and 16 rebounds in 9 of 12, pulling the team out of the decline of the losing streak, the more critical the game, the real strong team can always play a better performance, which belongs to the advantage of the Guangdong team.
(Lin Xiaoxiang)