The curtain of the CBA finals opens: no suspense!The Liaoning team beat the Guangsha team in the first game
2022-04-20 23:13:13Source: Xi’an News Network
The fourth stage of the 2021/2022 CBA playoffs (finals) kicked off at Nanchang International Sports Center on the evening of April 20. This season’s regular season champion Liaoning team and runner-up Zhejiang Guangsha team, following the 2017/2018 season, Reunited on the stage of the finals. After some competition, the Liaoning team defeated the Guangsha team 98:75, and took the lead in the finals with four wins in seven games. The last two times they met in the finals, the coach of the Guangsha team was Li Chunjiang, who is currently coaching the Shanghai team. At that time, the vigorous Guangsha team wanted to take the opportunity to enter the finals for the first time in team history to reach the top in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, they There is still a gap between the strength of the Liaoning team and the Liaoning team that has competed in the finals many times. In the end, they lost to the opponent with a big score of 0:4, and the soldiers of the Liaoning team won the first CBA championship trophy in team history. Today, the Liaoning team has reached the finals for the 10th time, and is full of expectations for the second cup, and the Guangsha team is much more mature than it was then. This season’s CBA regular season, Liaoning and Guangsha are the only two teams in the 20 CBA teams that have won more than 30 games in 38 rounds (Liaoning team 32 wins and 6 losses, Guangsha team 31 wins and 7 losses) , and in the two direct conversations in the regular season, the Liaoning team had the last laugh. Entering the playoffs, the Liaoning team’s average points per game increased from 106.4 points in the regular season to 107.2 points, while the Guangsha team dropped from 107 points in the regular season due to the successive injuries of the main players Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao. At 104 points, their field goal percentage was also a far cry from the 50.9 percent average in the regular season. In this final contest, the Liaoning team had a neat lineup. Among the three main players of the Guangsha team, Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao both missed the finals due to injuries, and they might only rely on Sun Minghui to lead foreign aid Okafor and Jarrod Jones. Deal with formidable opponents. Of course, Sun Minghui, who averaged 27 points and 8.8 assists per game in the playoffs, and scored 45 points in the third game once morest the Shanghai team in the semifinals, faced off once morest the Liaoning team’s “double guns” Guo Ailun and Zhao Jiwei’s local super defenders. Fans all over the country are very much looking forward to and concerned regarding.
In the first game of the finals on the evening of the 20th, the Guangsha team started well and took the lead for a time. However, following stabilizing their position, the Liaoning team gradually regained the initiative by relying on the advantages of sharp attack and rebounding. The first quarter ended, The Liaoning team overtook the score with 24:22. In the second quarter, the two teams launched a fierce offensive and defensive battle, and the scores on the field also alternated. At the end of the half, the Liaoning team only led by 3 points 49:46. Guo Ailun and Zhao Jiwei jointly contributed 18 points, while Sun Minghui was a player in the Liaoning team. The focus of the game played 21 minutes and 39 seconds under the mark and scored 10 points. As soon as the second half came up, Guangsha team scored 5 points in a row with Sun Minghui’s three-pointer and Xu Zhonghao’s inside attack. Until the second half of the third quarter, with the decline in the physical fitness of the main players on the field, the Guangsha team might only accept the fate that the score was gradually opened by the opponent. At the end of the third quarter, the Liaoning team had already led the Guangsha team 73:57. 16 points. In the last quarter of the duel, the Liaoning team further improved its defensive strength, and it became more and more difficult for the Guangsha team to score. In the end, the Liaoning team defeated Guangsha 98:75 and achieved an expected victory. Guo Ailunquan The game contributed a team-high 24 points, and also scored 7 rebounds, 4 assists, and 2 steals. In addition, Zhao Jiwei also had 13 points, 7 assists and 3 steals. Sun Minghui of the Guangsha team had only 13 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals.
After this campaign, the two teams will usher in a one-day adjustment rest period, and the second match of the finals will start at 19:30 on the evening of April 22. We can only wait and see what kind of wisdom and means can Guangsha coach Wang Bo show in this “young coach fight” with Liaoning coach Yang Ming.
Text/Jin Peng, an all-media reporter from Xi’an Press
