Chapter 418: Battle of the Derby
Thursday, December 6th.
After a break of more than ten days, the sixteenth round of the CBA regular season started on this day.
That night, the gymnasium in Bincheng District, Wulin City, which can accommodate 6,000 people, was full.
This one is played by the Zhijiang team sitting at home against the Guangxia team that is coming to play.
Because the Zhijiang team and the Guangxia team are both from Zhijiang, and the home stadiums of both teams are in Wulin City, this one is also known as the Zhijiang Derby.
(Author's note: For the convenience of the protagonist Li Huan, the Li Guangxia team did not move its home stadium to Zhuji, which is hereby explained.) )
In the first fifteen rounds, Guangxia maintained its undefeated golden body, except for one less game against the Ji Provincial team because of the opponent's flight delay, the Guangxia team has won 14 consecutive victories.
Such a record not only makes other teams in the CBA unattainable, but also makes the fans of Wulin City feel honored.
In particular, Li Huan in the Guangxia team was born out of nowhere, contributing amazing performances and statistics in these fourteen games, attracting a large number of fans in Wulin City.
On the other hand, the Zhijiang team did not start this season very favorably, in the first 15 rounds, they have lost 6 games, ranking low, far less than the dazzling undefeated golden body of Guangxia.
Compared with the two, it is natural that Guangxia occupies an absolute advantage.
And for Wulin City, the number of fans is limited.
The fans of both teams will change as each other's records change.
The eyes of the fans are clear, which team plays the ball well and which player gives strength will change who they support.
Now, many fans who originally supported the Zhijiang team began to turn to Guangxia's arms, especially Li Huan's wonderful performance in the World Preliminaries, which attracted a large number of fans of the original Zhijiang team, and even some fans who liked Wu Qian turned to prefer Li Huan.
This time, when the two teams entered the stadium, they found that the crowd voice of the Zhijiang team, which was originally the home team, was far less high than that of Guangxia, which was the away team.
Especially shouting for Huaxia Flyer, Li Huan MVP and other audiences are very large, and a large part of them come to watch the game just to watch Li Huan's performance, because only by watching Li Huan's game can they see the hope of Huaxia's future basketball and can see the NBA-level performance.
For this situation, Liu Weiwei, the coach of the Zhijiang team, was very helpless, if he had been more decisive and spent more money, he would have snatched Li Huan over.
If it is snatched up, the record of the Zhijiang team will never be what it is now, and Guangxia will not be able to take the lead in the away game.
What a helpless miss.
However, Liu Weiwei did not give up, he heard that the reason why Li Huan chose Guangxia was because it was close to where Li Huan lived, and the money that Guangxia gave at most gave Li Huan enough freedom, which shows that the Jiang team still has hope to poach Li Huan in the next season.
With his understanding of the Guangxia team, Guangxia is definitely not as generous and arrogant as their Zhijiang team in terms of finance, and at the beginning of this season, they were ready to poach Wade, one of the NBA's original superstars and one of the Heat's Big Three, with an offer of 25 million US dollars for three years, but unfortunately Wade did not come.
This time, they are ready to sign former NBA player Goodwin as a guard, but none of them are as important as Li Huan makes Liu Weiwei feel.
At the beginning of the next season, he decided to let the team spend a lot of money to poach Li Huan.
As long as the hoe is swung well, there is no wall foot that cannot be dug down.
After the warm-up, the game started quickly.
Zhijiang's side started with Cheng Shuaipeng, Zhang Dayu, Zhu Xuhang, Wu Qian and Deng Meng.
Li Huan is the starting player in Guangxia as usual, and the other four are Lin Zijie, Zhao Yanhao, Su Ruoyu and Hu Jinqiu.
Lin Zijie is already old, and as the captain of the Guangxia team, this may be his last season, so Li Chunjiang will let him start many times and go up to show his face.
For the CBA game, Li Huan is becoming more and more calm.
At the beginning of the game, he scored a three-point jumper to take the lead for the Guangxia team.
Then, in the face of Deng Meng's attack, Li Huan successfully broke the ball, and directly went down with Lin Zijie, assisting the opponent to score two points.
In fact, Li Huan can perform a violent dunk on his own, but Lin Zijie's opportunity is also good, as a point guard, it is also a duty to give a good opportunity to his teammates.
Guangxia got off to a good start with 5:0.
However, the Zhijiang team played tenaciously, and forward Cheng Shuaipeng scored a three-pointer under the cover of his teammates.
AND WHEN HE CAME BACK, LI HUAN IMMEDIATELY CAME TO AN ANSWER-BALL AND RESPONDED WITH A THREE-POINT SHOT.
Immediately after, the two teams launched a three-point shootout.
On Zhijiang's side, Deng Meng hit three three-pointers in a row.
On Guangxia's side, after Li Huan hit another three-pointer, he assisted Lin Zijie to hit a three-point shot, but the assist Zhao Yanhao's ball shot was missed, and the score of the two teams was only two points apart.
Because the Zhijiang team has long known that Li Huan is very strong in blocks and steals, they will deliberately avoid Li Huan's defense line many times in this game, looking for weak points in defense, or using blocking and dismantling tactics.
There is no doubt that this is very successful, and Zhijiang's hit rate in this section is very high, almost throwing it.
Deng Meng scored another three points under the cover of his teammates, while Wu Qian also hit two points.
On the other hand, the Guangxia team, under the excellent opportunity, failed to score two shots, and suddenly let the opponent overtake by 3 points.
However, Li Chunjiang believed in Li Huan, so he did not call a timeout.
And Li Huan next lived up to expectations, facing the pinching of Wu Qian and Deng Meng of the Zhijiang team, he hit a long-distance jumper directly, and also caused Deng Meng's thug to foul, and hit the penalty shot, which was equivalent to getting 4 points this time, directly surpassing the Zhijiang team by 1 point, causing the audience on the sidelines to stand up and shout, Li Huan MVP, Li Huan MVP.
The Zhijiang team was not discouraged, and hit two points from the inside line Zhang Dayu erased the board.
Hu Jinqiu was slightly lax in the face of Zhang Dayu just now, resulting in the loss of his defensive position.
Li Huan signaled to the color, after half the court, he saw Hu Jinqiu cut the basket in the air, and immediately made a false move, hanging the ball to the basket, Hu Jinqiu jumped high, but unfortunately the chess was one move, the air relay was not scored, and the rebound was grabbed by Zhang Dayu.
Deng Meng broke through with the dribble, and Li Huan saw the flaw and decisively cut off the ball, but unfortunately was fouled by the referee.
After the Zhijiang team re-served, Zhu Xuhang hit a three-pointer, so Guangxia fell behind by as much as four points.
Fortunately, Li Huan was very steady, and after coming back, he still hit three points under the attack of Deng Meng and Wu Qian.
Li Huan jumped too high, unless Deng Meng and Wu Qian fouled, otherwise people would jump and shoot directly, and they couldn't prevent it.
The game came to the last 23 seconds, the ball was controlled by the Zhijiang team, at this time Li Huan's prediction played a key role, directly stabbing in the stab and flying to cut off the ball passed by Deng Meng to Zhang Dayu on the inside, and then quickly attacked.
Deng Meng and Wu Qian desperately chased after him, and this time Li Huan did not choose to dunk directly, but suddenly retreated, shook off the two people who were pursuing, and then made a decisive jump shot.
It's a pity that this three-point shot was judged by the referee to step on the line, and it counts as two points.
At the end of the first quarter, the Zhijiang team entered the second quarter with a 33-34 deficit of one point behind Guangxia.
For this quarter of the game, Liu Weiwei is still quite satisfied, the Zhijiang team has no problem with the offense, and at the same time it also restricts the play of other players in Guangxia, but it fails to limit Li Huan, otherwise I am afraid that this section can achieve a good lead.