Chapter 203: The Playoffs Are Coming

"Da Zhuang, come on", "Yang Kai, give them some color", "Da Zhuang, I'll see you later", "Da Zhuang......" The Hunan University basketball team that had just finished participating in the "Sino-US College Basketball Exchange Match" cheered and shouted in the audience seats near the stadium.

Coach Liu Qing is still gentle and elegant, sitting in the VIP seat and watching his two proud disciples compete in the CBA playoffs, while Teacher Zhou Na is still so energetic, and the old captain Liang Wei is still so general......

As a "return" to Gao Dazhuang and Yang Kai for helping the "Sino-US College Basketball Exchange Match", the Hunan University basketball team did not rush back to Changsha after participating in the exchange game, but stayed in Shanghai for 2 days in order to watch the Shanghai team's first playoff game and cheer for their former "twin stars".

Today, at the Yuanshen Sports Center in Pudong, Shanghai, the Shanghai team ushered in the first game of the playoffs, and the opponent was the menacing defending champion Guangdong team.

As the first match of the defending champion Guangdong, this game attracted a large number of domestic media, and CCTV Sports Channel also made a national live broadcast of the game.

In charge of commenting on the game were two senior commentators from CCTV Sports Channel: Zhang Weiping and Yang Yi.

"This game is the opening game of this year's playoffs, it can be said that the national attention, seven crowns Guangdong will start to hit the highest honor of the CBA league today - the championship, eight crowns will be their only goal," Zhang Weiping teacher was very excited to explain.

"The strength of the Guangdong team is undoubted, but their opponent today is not easy to deal with, although the early season was dragged down by injuries, the results are not ideal, but with a wave of consecutive wins at the end of the season, the Shanghai team forced back to the top eight in the industry, with the main point guard Liu Wei and other sick numbers returned, the strength of the Shanghai team further enhanced, and now Shanghai can be said to be in addition to Beijing and Xinjiang, the two old powerhouses of the Guangdong team is the most reluctant opponent" Another commentator Yang Yi unexpectedly began to support Shanghai before the game.

"The second half of the league Shanghai team is really eye-catching, I interviewed the Guangdong team before the game coach Li Chunjiang, Li Gui believes that although most of the media, fans are optimistic about Guangdong to defend the title, but Guangdong's way forward is actually difficult, such as the first opponent of the Guangdong team - Shanghai team, although all aspects of the data show that the Guangdong team is obviously superior, some media, fans also shouted the slogan of sweeping, but Li Gui believes that the Guangdong team does not have the strength to sweep Shanghai, but believes that the Shanghai team will be a very difficult opponent"

"Oh, it seems that the Guangdong team is very serious about their first opponent, this time the Shanghai team is in trouble, but although the results of the Shanghai team this season are not ideal, but their home record is second only to Guangdong and Beijing, the first batch of tickets for this game has just been sold out in 8 minutes, the estimated total box office revenue of the first playoff game can be close to 1.5 million yuan, and the home atmosphere created by Shanghai fans will make the away team face a very big challenge."

"Well, before the game, the last MVP Wang Shipeng said that the Guangdong team has begun to focus on practicing the defensive strategy for tall and strong and Harris, Wang Shipeng believes that the two offensive arrows of the Shanghai team are very prominent, and the single defense is not realistic, they will have an overall defense strategy, I think under normal circumstances, Zhou Peng, who is tall and has long arms and fast steps, will become the main defensive tall and strong candidate, at the same time, the two scorers of the Guangdong team, Zhu Fangyu and Wang Shipeng, also have good defensive skills, Harris will definitely hand over one of them, The advantage in bench depth will make the Guangdong team more comfortable in arranging the lineup."

"Yes, if the Shanghai team wants to surprise the national audience in the opening game, it depends on the performance of tall and strong, in the second half of the season when Liu Wei was absent due to injury, as the MVP of the World Youth Championship, Gao Dazhuang can score an average of 30+ per game, showing very good offensive ability, and the backcourt combination formed by him and Harris is the most offensive duo in the entire league."

According to the latest rookie 100 list published by the American draft website, Gao Dazhuang ranked 10th, which is also the first time he has entered the top 10 industry, and now there are many media rumors that Gao Dazhuang will participate in the NBA draft this year."

"The strength of tall and strong is worthy of this order, in fact, when Gao Dazhuang played CUBA, I began to pay attention to him and interviewed him, but I still didn't expect that in just one year he has improved so much, and now he has vaguely surpassed the trend of other domestic players, any domestic player in the face of tall and strong breakthroughs are very difficult, even in the face of Guangdong, he is also an absolute strong point of the Shanghai team"

"The latest national team training camp is about to start, if nothing else, the tall and strong will enter the national team and become the youngest national player in this national team."

"Hey, the game is about to start, let's take a look at the players on both sides"

The lineup of the Guangdong team is center Su Wei, power forward Dong Hanlin, small forward Zhu Fangyu, scoring guard Zhou Peng, and point guard Brooks; The Shanghai team is center Zhang Zhaoxu, power forward Landry, small forward Wang Yong, scoring guard Gao Dazhuang, and point guard Liu Wei.

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Shanghai team rest area.

"Thank you guys, in the days when I was injured, it was your hard work that brought the Shanghai team back to the playoffs, and only then did we have today's battle, it's good to have your teammates" Before the game, captain Liu Wei gathered all his teammates together, "But now, after standing on the stage of the playoffs, I hope to get more, although the opposite is a strong defending champion, but I have always believed that we have the ability to overturn them, because this is our home field"

Seeing the confident eyes of captain Liu Wei, Gao Dazhuang took the lead in saying "Don't worry, captain, in our home stadium, we have never been afraid of any opponent, right?" Guys"

"Yes", "I'm not afraid of anyone", "Damn, who have I been afraid of", "Guangdong, let him quietly be our awesome"......

"I'm very relieved of you, Da Zhuang, your strength is obvious to all, you will become the best player in China," Liu Wei patted the tall and strong shoulder and said with a smile.

"Well, captain, you say that I'm under a lot of pressure" Gao Dazhuang's ridiculous tone made everyone laugh, Gao Dazhuang suddenly turned to Zhang Zhaoxu and said: "Brother Xu, you have to grab a few more boards for me later, so that I can attack with confidence."

"No problem," Zhang Zhaoxu replied very seriously.

"Don't worry" Landry, who was standing on the side, also patted his chest with confidence.

"Shall you go on then?" Tall and strong looked around at his teammates and said.

"Okay, come on, come on, come on" Shanghai team momentum is like a rainbow.

With the referee's whistle, the playoffs of this season kicked off, and the Shanghai team's home game against Guangdong officially began.

With a "snap", Zhang Zhaoxu, the center of the Shanghai team, beat Su Wei of the Guangdong team to touch the basketball first, and flicked the ball to the backcourt, and the tall and strong man standing on the side immediately jumped high and took the ball off the air with both hands.

Shanghai was the first to win the ball.

"Attack, attack, attack" The fans led by the Shanghai local "Little Yellow Fish" Fan Association waved the flags in their hands and cheered loudly.

"Well done" tall and strong gave Zhang Zhaoxu a thumbs up, and let Hou start to control the ball and move forward.

However, after entering the half, Gao Dazhuang passed the ball to teammate Liu Wei, who controlled the ball at the top of the arc, and the rest of the Shanghai team went into their respective positions.

Liu Wei, the captain of the Shanghai team, has always been one of the most stable elite players in the CBA league, from the beginning of Yao Ming's departure from the Shanghai men's basketball team to this year, a total of 9 seasons, as the core of the team, Liu Wei averaged 19.8 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 5.1 assists per game in the 9-year CBA League, and his average data in these 9 years is even higher than the peak season data of most domestic guard players.

Before his injury, often at the last moment of the game, Coach Panagio of the Shanghai team would always habitually send Liu Wei to take charge of the ball and let his teammates hand over the ball to him, which shows Liu Wei's core position in this team.

Although they have only just returned from injury, the players of the Shanghai team do trust their captain as always.

Responsible for defending Liu Wei is the Guangdong team's "Little Black Bean" Brooks, facing Brooks, who is strong in attack and weak in defense, Liu Wei first signaled his teammates to open up the space, and then slowly dribbled to the three-second zone.

Although Brooks was guarding against Liu Wei, his glasses were always glancing at the tall and strong man who was moving on the side.

Seeing that Brooks in front of him was not very focused, Liu Wei suddenly increased his speed, and threw Brooks behind him with an arrow step, and when Brooks reacted, Liu Wei had already entered the penalty area and took off.

Seeing Liu Wei break through to the basket, Zhu Fangyu, who was standing on the side of the restricted area, immediately made up for the defense and came over to block it, but Liu Wei seemed to have been prepared, using the inertia of jumping to push Zhu Fangyu away in the air, and then picked up the basket.

The "brush" ball landed steadily into the nets.

"Toot" At the same time, the whistle sounds, 2+1!

"Wow" The fans at the scene exclaimed, and then burst into warm applause, no one expected that the first to score in this game was Liu Wei, who had just returned from injury.