The Shanghai Sharks men's basketball team, which has won four consecutive games since the start of the second stage of the CBA regular season, fell in front of Shandong tonight. Although compared with the Sharks in the previous 17 rounds with 14 wins and 3 losses, Shandong only won 8 games, and the winning percentage did not exceed 50%, they won the final victory 117:100.
In this game, the Shandong team broke the shark's full-court pressure defense very well; on the other hand, they had a clear advantage in the basket competition, winning 12 big sharks in rebounds. Moreover, the Sharks, who have been chasing points since the beginning of the game, have been very impatient, which directly led to a shooting rate of less than 40% of the whole game, and did not play their normal level at all.
The Sharks did not feel good from the beginning, and lacked the control of rebounding in the front court, resulting in frequent fast attacks scored by the Shandong team. Although head coach Li Chunjiang was replaced by the second team led by the big foreign aid Feng Lai, the whole team still lacked a crosshair, but it was shandong's substitute big forward Giron Watt who blossomed inside and outside, scoring continuously. At the end of the first quarter, the Sharks trailed 15:30.
In the second quarter, the Sharks' shooting percentage is still not high, and they can only rely on center Wang Zhelin to support themselves on the inside. Fortunately, the Shandong team made more mistakes, and their mistakes in the first and second quarters were as high as 15 times, which made the point difference between the two teams not further widen. Wang Zhelin also continued to attack and mid-range jumper through the basket, scoring 18 points in the first half, helping the Sharks team win the opponent by 3 points in the second quarter. However, at the end of the half, the Sharks were still 12 points behind Shandong.
Statistically, the Sharks shot 40 percent of the two-pointers in the first half, half less than Shandong,00 percent less, which is the most important reason why the team is always suppressed by the opponent.
In the third quarter, the Sharks' offensive problems continued, and the scoring efficiency was not high. In particular, the performance of the two foreign aides is sluggish, Franklin is in poor shape, Vonle is too much to fight alone, and one person is wasted many attacks. On the Shandong side, it was the turn of small foreign player Hudson to start performing, hitting consecutive long-range three-point shots, and at one point they had extended their lead to as many as 20 points.
The Sharks tried to close the score gap in the final quarter, but Shandong was always able to give a positive response on the offensive end and maintain a stable scoring efficiency. The point difference between the two teams by more than ten points remained until the end of the game.
In the comparison of data between the core players of the two sides, the Sharks are also defeated. In the center position, Shandong's Tao Hanlin played a large double-double with 22 points and 20 rebounds; Sharks center Wang Zhelin had 18 points and 6 rebounds. Shandong's two foreign players Hudson and Gyllenwater combined to score 44 points; Franklin, the core of the Sharks' organization, only hit 1 goal in 10 shots, which was simply unbearable, and he and VonLe scored a total of 27 points.
The Shanghai Sharks men's basketball team, which has been soaring all the way before, needs to summarize through this loss and prepare for more fierce competition in the second stage with a more stable mentality.
The next round of the Sharks will be played at 3 p.m. on January 7, against Xinjiang. The team's last game of 2021 was with Xinjiang, when the Sharks won 121:112.