Chapter 214 Destroying the withered and decaying
Just as the Xinjiang club is full of confidence in this round of the series, the Shanghai team is also full of confidence in the game, Shanghai foreign aid Harris said: "If we can pull down the most powerful Guangdong, then it proves that we can beat any opponent", Shanghai coach Panagio quipped: "If you don't beat the opponent tonight, then the players will buy away tickets at their own expense", and Gao Dazhuang only gave the reporters two words "champion".
"Big Shark, Big Shark, Big Shark" The entire Shanghai Pudong Yuanshen Stadium is crowded, and the Shanghai team's defeat of Guangdong has made the focus of the whole city focus on this team, not only in the stadium, but also outside the stadium There are a large number of fans without tickets, who are cheering for the team in their own way.
The soldiers of the Shanghai team gathered in a circle, and Liu Wei, the captain of the "go up" shouted loudly.
"Come on~~~"
The starting lineup of the Shanghai team is still Liu Wei, Gao Dazhuang, Wang Yong, Landry and Zhang Zhaoxu, although this lineup is not the strongest attack lineup in Shanghai, but it is definitely the most balanced lineup.
"Xinjiang team, we are coming" Gao Dazhuang turned his head and glanced at the Xinjiang team players who were playing.
Xinjiang team lost to Guangdong in the finals last year, and this year is a comeback, the strength of the team should not be underestimated, in addition to the familiar national player **, Tang Zhengdong, there are more young players Xi Relijiang, Meng Duo, etc., and the team's foreign aid is not unknown.
Xinjiang team is the first team to change foreign players before the start of the playoffs, the 2.06-meter-tall Éke Diogu is a low-post madman, after the Xinjiang team hoped to sign back the injured Duby in the playoffs, but with the excellent performance of another foreign player Picott in the final stage of the regular season, coupled with Laver's mediocre performance, the Flying Tigers also put the quota for the exchange mainly on the big foreign aid.
Drafted by the Warriors with the 9th pick in the first round in 2005, Diogu averaged 14.9 minutes per game in his rookie season, averaging seven points and 3.1 rebounds.
Diogu is not very tall, but he is a power player with very good offensive and rebounding ability in the low post, and Pacers general manager Larry Bird once described Diogu as a "genius".
Another foreign aid of the Xinjiang team is Picot, 31-year-old Picott as an offensive guard, he was drafted by the NBA Hornets in 04 and sent to the Development League, and then wandered in the European League, and joined the CBA in 08 to replace the "thorn" Bunch Wells, is the sharpest offensive player of the Shanxi team, averaging 38 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.
Directly opposite the tall and strong in this game will be Picot, the 1.93m shooting guard.
However, unexpectedly, the Shanghai team soon defeated the visiting Xinjiang team.
At 81:106, the two "fates" allowed the Xinjiang team to defeat Shanghai Tang with a gap of 25 points.
Rebounding is the foundation of the basketball game, and Guangdong's "national rebounding" won a complete victory; Offense is the throat of the basketball game, and Guangdong's pressing offense won again.
The Xinjiang team, which lost the two most important points, could only win by a fantasy.
Xinjiang conceded 29 more rebounds than Shanghai and scored 24 points directly through a fast break, which is usually enough to lead to defeat, let alone two.
Burdened with the burden of not being able to lose at home, the Shanghai team originally left Xinjiang with a lot of opportunities, and the three-point shot of 22 shots in the first half did not turn into a clarion call for Xinjiang to counterattack, but became a rebounding show for the Shanghai team.
For reasons of defensive position, it is much easier to protect backcourt rebounds than to compete for frontcourt rebounds, but Xinjiang turned the matter around in the face of the generals.
This can't be lamented that Landry is violent, he suppressed the CBA "rookie" Diogu all over the court, and contributed only 18 rebounds in the whole game, the team's core guard Gao Dazhuang also grabbed 11 rebounds, Zhai Yi, Harris and Yang Kai also scored more than 5 rebounds, and the Shanghai team's "national rebounds" gave it a lot of offensive opportunities.
Although the Xinjiang team lost, its two-point shooting rate was as high as 63%, and although the three-point shooting was only 29%, it was slightly better than Shanghai.
However, after the start of the game, the overall strength of the Xinjiang team was obviously at a disadvantage, except for rebounds, the Xinjiang team could not prevent the tall and strong at all.
"Sports Weekly" published on the front page of the front page after the game, "Shanghai Beast pokes Xinjiang, and everyone dares to shoot with him in the whole team", which means tall and strong.
Although the Xinjiang team knew that Gao Dazhuang was the core of this Shanghai team, it was Gao Dazhuang's play that allowed the Shanghai team to sweep the defending champion Guangdong team.
Although the Xinjiang team made full preparations, the tall and strong pair showed Xinjiang its all-round side, and the tall and strong contributed 25 points, 22 assists and 11 rebounds in the game.
Gao Dazhuang's offense is definitely the top in the league, so at the beginning of the game, the Xinjiang team adopted a trap strategy, and the whole court defended Gao Dazhuang, and the effect was very good, and Gao Dazhuang shot 0 of 5 three-pointers in the entire first quarter, and scored 2 points close to the free throw.
However, Gao Dazhuang immediately changed the offensive rhythm, and frequently sent assists after being caught by Xinjiang, sending 7 assists in the first quarter, and his assists reached 13 in the entire first half, and the Shanghai team also achieved a double-digit lead.
In the second half, the Xinjiang team used three guards, Picot, Xi Relijiang, and Meng Duo, to take turns to defend Gao Dazhuang, but Gao Dazhuang suddenly burst out with strong scoring ability in the face of the opponent's single defense, and scored 14 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, so that the Xinjiang team was forced to pause several times and resume the bag of Gao Dazhuang again, but Gao Dazhuang contributed 6 assists in a single quarter again in the fourth quarter, which directly put the game into garbage time.
In addition to scoring and assists, Gao Dazhuang also grabbed 11 rebounds in this game, including 7 rebounds in the frontcourt.
After the Xinjiang team lost to the Shanghai team in the away game, it will return to the home team to play Shanghai twice, and the biggest problem in front of the Xinjiang team now is how to solve the "whirlwind war" of the Shanghai team.
Xinjiang veteran coach Jiang Xingquan has rich command experience, and in the face of the Shanghai team's athletic ability, the Xinjiang team wants to roll the inside line in a down-to-earth manner.
And the Shanghai team wants to bring the speed to the sky.
Anyway, from the first minute of the game, the Xinjiang team couldn't hold it if they wanted to hold their ground, and the breakthroughs of Gao Dazhuang and Harris made the Xinjiang team unguardable.
The breakthrough of Gao Dazhuang and Harris not only ensures that the team's offense, especially the speed of the defensive counterattack, is as fast as the wind, but also the rotation speed and the speed of the attack when defending is also significantly accelerated, which causes the maximum pressure on the opponent's attack.
Looking at the final data, the Shanghai team played 12 fast attacks in the whole game, the Xinjiang team only 2 times, the Shanghai team made 14 steals in the whole game, and the Xinjiang team 5 times, which is the strongest persuasiveness.
The so-called martial arts in the world are not broken, and the Shanghai Sharks are undoubtedly carried forward to the extreme.
There is **, Tang Zhengdong, the Xinjiang team can't come and go like the Shanghai team, but Xinjiang coach Jiang Xinquan has always asked the outside players to be fast.
The problem is that the Xinjiang team is lacking such an "engine" as Gao Dazhuang, and foreign aid Picott is dwarfed by Gao Dazhuang.
Due to the fiasco in the first game, the domestic media unanimously looked down on the Xinjiang team, but as described in the "Sports Weekly", "If the Xinjiang team can hold Yuan Shouyi, let themselves completely stabilize their minds, and slow down the pace of the game as much as possible, I am afraid they will find that there are still some things in their hands that are superior, and slowing down the offensive speed of the Shanghai team is the key"