Liaoning refused to be surprised. How did they beat the Shanxi team?

On July 22nd, Beijing time, the second-stage rematch of cba continued, and a focus battle that night was played by Liaoning team against Shanxi team. The Liaoning team has been in good shape recently. The team has won a wave of six consecutive victories. At present, it ranks fourth in the standings with a record of 29 wins 14 losses. However, the Guangsha team and Zhejiang team behind are both 28 wins, and there is a risk of overtaking at any time. Liaoning is in an unstable position, and this game is very important to them; Shanxi team defeated Qingdao 90-79 in the last round, ending the embarrassing five-game losing streak. Yan Pengfei, Ge Zhaobao, Ren Junwei and other players have all played well, but they may bring great trouble to the Liaoning team in this game.

After fierce competition in four quarters, Liaoning team withstood the crazy counterattack of Shanxi team in the last quarter, and finally defeated Shanxi with 108: 105, further consolidating the fourth position in the standings.

Analysis after the game: First, the Shanxi men's basketball team, which is all soldiers, fell short.

Before this game, most fans thought it should be a game without suspense. After all, the Liaoning team has been too hot recently. During the six-game winning streak, it averaged 24.5 points per game. After all, the Shanxi team has locked the playoff seats, and even the core Yuan Shuai has begun to rest. Help? Traditionally, the Shanxi team should also give a performance to the Liaoning team. However, judging from the results of the game, the scores of the two sides are not only quite close, but also the statistics of various key technologies are evenly matched: rebounding 38:29, assisting 19:26, stealing 10:8, shooting percentage 63.5%: 62.5% (Liaoning team is in the front), which can be said to be a close contest.

So, what caused the game that should have no suspense to hit the last second of the game? The reason for this is the following：

Shanxi found the feeling of team basketball.

Shanxi team has always been a slightly low-key team in cba. In fact, their transcripts this season are really eye-catching: the average score (108 points) can rank eighth in the league, the average assists (2 1.9 times) rank fourth in the league, and the average three points (1 1.9 times) rank fifth in the league. Even if foreign aid could not return after the rematch and had to arrange all-China classes to play, they still achieved good results and saved their playoff seats in advance. This is all because their benches are deep. However, during the five-game losing streak, they averaged only 92 points per game, of which the substitute players averaged only 29 points per game and averaged 17.5 assists per game, which was far below their normal level. It can be said that they have lost the most effective weapon!

In this game, the Shanxi team finally remembered the feeling of team basketball: all 9 people scored in rotation, 6 of them scored in double figures, and the whole team sent 26 assists. Substitute Yan Pengfei scored 2 1, the second highest score of the season, and four substitutes scored the highest 50 points since the rematch. Especially at the end of the last quarter, their performance was particularly impressive: in the last three minutes, they let Guo foul three times in a row, directly letting six of them leave the field, and then let Mayo's offensive foul narrow the score to two points. Unfortunately, Ren Junwei's perfect shot was not finished, and the Shaanxi team fell short. If the Shanxi team can keep full play in this game, they will cause great trouble to the previous team in the playoffs when Yuan Shuai returns.

It feels cold outside Liaoning.

Liaoning has always been an outside team. If Han Dejun, who is inside, is put aside, the rest of the Liaoning team are used to trying three points on the outside. During the previous six-game winning streak, the average number of three-point shots per game of Liaoning team reached an astonishing 33 times, and its shooting percentage remained at 49.4%! It can be said that in these six games, they killed their opponents with three points.

However, in this game, they still maintained a high number of shots (28 shots in the whole game), but only 8 hits, with a hit rate of only 28.6%, which directly led to the stagnation of the team's attack. If the inside line of the team didn't have Han Dejun's absolute strength, the game would have been overturned. No wonder many fans will vent their anger on Guo who has just returned from this game and make fun of him. Asia's number one point guard? People have an inherent impression that he is not good at shooting. In addition, in this game, he scored only 9 points in the outside line 12 shooting 4, and three consecutive fouls and technical fouls almost ruined the team's full-court efforts before the end of the game.

In fact, Guo is just a microcosm of Liaoning's perimeter players in this game. Mayo, a foreign aid, also hit 8 3-pointers 1, and He Tianju, who feels good recently, made 2 of 7 shots. But because he is special? Big nephew? The identity of the team, the blame also had to let him a person back. In the next playoffs, if Guo can't come up with phenomenal data, or if the Liaoning team stops before the finals, I'm afraid his abuse won't stop so soon.

Second, it is difficult for Liaoning's former absolute main force to return to its peak.

The appearance lineup of Liaoning team in this game is actually very similar to the winning lineup at its peak. Although there are still so many people, their strength is not the same as at the beginning. This is particularly evident in Liu Zhixuan. At its peak, Liu Zhixuan averaged around 45% three-point shooting rate and was selected for the national team for many years. He is the absolute main force in Liaoning forward line. However, in the past two years, his state has declined at the speed of light, and his average score this season has dropped to a career low of 3.8 points. This game, played for 26 minutes, he only got 4 points twice, and the data of steals, blocks, fouls and mistakes were all hung up, which was almost invisible on the court.

It is precisely because there is almost no threat in the position of shooting guard, Guo and Han Dejun's pick-and-roll tactics can't open space, and Mayo's individual singles often encounter coordinated defense, which makes the team's offensive efficiency very low. Judging from the time allocation in recent games, the starting position of Liu Zhixuan in this game should also be an attempt by the coach to change the lineup. Not surprisingly, in the following games, his starting position will be replaced by what. Looking back, if he still can't see more trees in the playoffs, it will be the marching order of Liaoning team in the offseason.

Third, Mayo, who is in a mediocre state, can still contribute his strength.

As Liaoning re-entered the top four, the praise for foreign aid Mayo flooded the whole social media. During the six-game winning streak, he can contribute 3 1. 1 point per game and hit an astonishing 65.4%, including the luxury data of 44 points1kloc-0/7 assists against Fujian. Aside from these most intuitive data, his tactical influence and help to the Liaoning team is the most critical. First of all, Liaoning's requirements for foreign aid are different from those of other teams, because Guo and Zhao Jiwei, two national point guards, need to have the ball in hand to play their abilities. What Liaoning needs is a small foreign aid who can play without the ball, not only has the ability to catch the ball and shoot, but also has a certain position without the ball. At the same time, when the team can't open the situation, it can also break through the opponent's intensive defense through personal ability.

Stephenson, a foreign aid before the start of this season, although the data is gorgeous, his help to the Liaoning team is limited, because he has no ball to play and can't survive with Zhao Jiwei and Guo. The arrival of Mayo solved this problem well. Secondly, because the year of no doubt has passed, and the days in the nba in previous years are not satisfactory, Mayo, who has been at a low ebb for several years, has obviously matured a lot, giving people the overall feeling that there are not too many malicious words, low-key and not harsh. This is a rare quality in China's small foreign aid. For example, Stephenson, the foreign aid before the team, had the experience of clamoring for the Pacers. For example, Joseph Yang, a small foreign aid from Tongxi team, had the news that the hotel was isolated before? This is undoubtedly more conducive to the unity of the team and brings a positive atmosphere to the team.

In this game, although Mayo's state has declined compared with previous games, and he only got 1 for 8 shots outside the three-point line, he still played a positive role in the team's victory with a positive attitude: he started the game and grabbed 17 rebounds, which fully shared Han Dejun's rebounding control pressure and contributed 7 assists at the same time, effectively connecting the team in series when Guo was in poor state. Besides,

After the game, only the last back-to-back game against Shanxi was left for the Liaoning team. As long as you win your opponent, you can lock in the top four positions in the standings. Such an achievement was unimaginable half a month ago. With the coming of the playoffs, I hope that the Liaoning team can take this opportunity to by going up one flight of stairs, and maybe it will eventually bring down Guangdong's rule in a voice of doubt. Everything is unknown.