Guangdong's narrow victory over 8-man Zhejiang actually had another reason! Du Feng succeeded in hiding three things from the famous mouthpiece Yang Yi!
CBA The 16th round ushered in a focus battle. The leader Zhejiang team, which has not lost this season, faced the Guangdong team, which had previously won 6 consecutive victories! In the first round of the contest between the two sides, the Zhejiang team finally defeated the Guangdong team with a buzzer beater, and Lin Xiaotian made a throat-closing celebration after completing the buzzer beater! So in this game, the Guangdong team came to face the Zhejiang team with a revenge mentality!
Due to the impact of the epidemic, the Zhejiang team has only 8 players on the roster for this game. Wu Qian and Cheng Shuipeng are both unable to play. The Guangdong team has a 12-man roster that includes almost the entire main lineup, with only Zhang Haojia absent! Therefore, many fans feel that the Guangdong team will win easily after seeing this roster! However, the course of the game was unexpected. The Zhejiang team stubbornly kept the suspense of the game until the last minute!
So why did the Guangdong team, which played with all its members, almost lose to the Zhejiang team in an upset? In my opinion, there are three reasons:
The first is to train the team. This game lasted until the last five minutes of the fourth quarter. Du Feng just made a rotation of individual personnel. In the first three and a half quarters, except for replacing Arab League 3 minutes into the first quarter, he maintained five up and five down almost all the time. Even the famous commentator Yang Yi was very confused as to why Du Feng didn't put the five best players on the court!
The reason for this is actually very simple. Since the opponent lacks Wu Qian, Du Feng has full confidence in this game. He is completely in control of when to lock in the victory. But what a rare opportunity it is to use a finals-level opponent to train his young players! In the last five minutes of the fourth quarter, when Du Feng no longer used five ups and five downs but made targeted substitutions, he immediately won the game!
The second reason is the excitement of the game. We all know that the game between Guangdong and Zhejiang is a winter solstice battle specially arranged by the league at a certain time. The purpose is to allow fans to see a wonderful game!
As a former men's basketball head coach, Du Feng is very aware of this. We can see that Du Feng sat on the coaching bench for more than three quarters of the game and directed the game. Moreover, when a mistake occurred on the field, he did not directly replace the player who made the mistake as usual. It was not until the end of the game that he began to stand on the sidelines and start normal output. Once there was a problem on the field, he would immediately spit out fragrance!
The last reason is to reduce the consumption of players. In this game, 9 players of the Guangdong team played for more than 20 minutes. The longest playing time was , Zhao Rui, and Arab League, which played 27 minutes. And unlike the past half-quarter, Du Feng will even make a personnel adjustment in about five minutes!
It can be seen from the players' playing time and number of rotations that Du Feng is deliberately protecting the players' physical fitness. In special times, although they can all enter the big list, it does not mean that they are all in good health!
Based on the above three reasons, it is obvious why the Guangdong team won this game so hard. The entire trend of the game is completely under Du Feng's control!
