As Guangdong team won the 11th league championship in team history, the 2020-2021 secondary vocational basketball season came to a successful conclusion. This season, the longest period and the most regular season games in the history of vocational basketball , the strength of many teams has improved, the competition on the field has become more intense, and the emergence of young players has also made the game more exciting. All parties worked together to contribute an extraordinary and exciting season to the audience.
htmlOn May 1, the 2020-2021 secondary vocational basketball team (CBA) came to an end in Zhuji, Zhejiang. After three matches in the finals, the Guangdong team defeated Liaoning team with a total score of 2:1 to win the championship, which is also the eleventh championship of the secondary vocational basketball team won by the Guangdong team. Since the 2018-2019 season, the Guangdong team has won the championship for three consecutive seasons, achieving the third "three consecutive championships" of the secondary vocational basketball team. Looking back on the entire season, the Secondary Vocational Basketball Team was held in the form of for the first time. The 56 rounds of regular season also set a new record for the number of league games.Guangdong team wins overall strength
This season Guangdong team entered the playoffs with the first place in the regular season, and defeated Beijing, Shandong and Liaoning teams in the playoffs, and finally won the league championship. This season, Yi Jianlian was unable to play all season, and the team's main foreign aid Marshan Brooks suffered a sudden injury before the playoffs. The absence of main players and the improvement of other teams' strength have brought many difficulties to the Guangdong team's journey to win the championship this season.
In the quarter-finals of the playoffs, Guangdong team turned defeated and won 13 points behind Beijing team in the last quarter. In the third game of the finals, after being tied by the Liaoning team, the Guangdong team played steadily and finally won in overtime. Why can the Guangdong team win at a critical moment? Beijing team head coach Yannis believes that Guangdong team rarely makes mistakes at critical moments; Liaoning team head coach Yang Ming said that Guangdong team's experience in the finals and the execution ability of players are better.
As the team that has won the most championship trophysical vocational basketball history, the Guangdong team has rich game experience, but more importantly, the team's uniqueness in terms of skills, tactics and talent reserves. Guangdong team head coach Du Feng often uses the "five up and five down" substitution strategy this season, and this approach has achieved results at critical moments of the game. "We give more young players the opportunity to play and do a good job of defense (in the finals)." Du Feng said.
After Brooks was injured before the playoffs, Du Feng encouraged the players: "The process of striving for victory is the real meaning of hard work. The experience of continuously rushing to the championship goal for so many years is a training for every participant who loves basketball." Carefully savoring this sentence is the best annotation on the Guangdong team's journey to win the championship.
cultivates more basketball talents
Among the many young players of the Guangdong team, Hu Mingxuan 's performance is the most outstanding. He is very strong on both offense and defense, running tirelessly and snatching fearlessly, which not only inspires his teammates, but also infects the audience. After the finals, Hu Mingxuan was named the Most Valuable Player (FMVP) in the Finals. This is Hu Mingxuan's fourth season in his secondary basketball career. This season, Hu Mingxuan averaged 13.4 points per game, nearly double the increase from last season.
With the adjustment of foreign players' usage rules, the role of local players has been further highlighted. This season, Zhejiang team made it to the semi-finals of the playoffs for the first time and finished third, setting a new record in team history. Attach importance to the construction of club echelons and tapping the potential of young players is an important reason for the continuous progress of Zhejiang team in recent years. "Young players are willing to practice and can achieve results depends on their usual efforts." Zhejiang team head coach Liu Weiwei believes that this is an important reason for the team's breakthrough this season.
This season, local coaches have also made progress. Liaoning team head coach Yang Ming, Guangsha team head coach Wang Bo, Shenzhen team head coach Qiu Biao participated in the league as the head coach for the first time, led the team into the playoffs, and completed the goals set before the game. "In the first year of being a coach, I lacked experience in the finals and needed further improvement," said Yang Ming.
According to statistics, the number of registered players in the 2020-2021 season increased by 7% compared with last season.The 19 clubs have a total of 84 players (including 17 transfers, 56 free agents claiming, and 11 loans), an increase of 65% over the previous season.
Event guarantee has a new breakthrough
In the finals of this season, the situation was that the two consecutive games were scored in overtime for the first time in the history of the league. The Guangdong team and the Liaoning team must compete for every goal, and the whole game was highly tense. In this case, the accurate refereeship and competition management of the referee and technical station provide strong guarantees for the smooth progress of the competition. The "last two minutes referee report" in the first two games of the finals showed that all 6 penaltys in the first game were correct, and 11 of the 12 penaltys in the second game were correct and 1 wrong judgment was correct.
"The last two minutes of referee report" is an important indicator that reflects the professional level of referees at the secondary vocational basketball team. Since the 34th round of the regular season, a total of 27 reports have been published, with a correct penalty rate of 91.7%. The Office of the Referee of the Secondary Vocational Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball Basketball The referee's referee's referee's final decision rate in the last two minutes has increased significantly compared with the past, and the referee training work is effective.
As the longest season in the history of the Secondary Vocational Basketball League, Zhejiang Zhuji hosted all the competitions of this season starting from October 17 last year. 1482 staff members, 9615 nucleic acid tests , 28,000 security services for the event... Each number records the hard work of all parties for the smooth holding of the league. With the joint efforts of the staff, this season has gradually opened to the audience since the fourth stage of the regular season, and the long-lost lively atmosphere has returned to the arena. To express gratitude, the CBA League invited 36 security staff representatives to watch the first game of the finals on site. A spokesperson for the Secondary Vocational Basketball League said that the overall league operation and competition organization capabilities have been further improved this season.
(People's Daily reporter Fan Jiayuan)
