China News Service, Beijing, April 3. After defeating the Tianjin team again at 122:104 on the evening of the 3rd, the Guangdong team won two consecutive victories in the CBA playoffs this season, becoming the first team in the first round to advance to the quarterfinals. team.
The Guangzhou team and Shanxi team, who have also finished two games, tied with a big score of 1:1, and will start a battle of life and death in the third round of the contest.
Yi Jianlian, the core of the former team who returned from injury, was greatly reduced in strength. The defending champion and 11 champion Guangdong team ranked fifth in the regular season this season, suffering the worst regular season record in the past 20 years.
According to the rules, in the playoffs, the top four in the regular season will directly enter the quarterfinals, and the 5th-12th will compete in the first round to compete for the other four quarterfinals.
The Guangdong team, the former absolute hegemon of the CBA league, also appeared in the long-lost first round of the playoffs.
Despite the lack of the courage of the past, in the face of the Tianjin team that has entered the playoffs for the first time in the past 8 years and the second time in history, the Guangdong team is still able to do it well. The battle between Tianjin and Guangdong is also considered to be the least suspenseful in the first round of the playoffs a group of confrontations.
That's exactly what happened.
In the opening game of the playoffs on the 1st, the Guangdong team defeated the Tianjin team 124:101.
This time they met again, and the Guangdong team was even more handy, leading by 20 points at 37:17 in the first quarter.
Although the Tianjin team pulled back 8 points in the second quarter (53:65), it was difficult to shake the defending champion due to a "hard injury" in strength, and they lost 104:122 and suffered a "round trip".
In this game, 6 players from the Guangdong team scored in double figures.
Among them, veteran Yi Jianlian played 31 minutes, contributed a game-high 11 rebounds, and scored 15 points and 3 assists.
Another veteran Zhou Peng scored 21 points and 3 rebounds, and last season's finals MVP Hu Mingxuan scored 8 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists.
Like the last game, Tianjin team foreign aid Kenny Burton still scored the highest score (25 points), and he was still alone.
In the second round (8 into 4), the Guangdong team's opponent was the fourth place in the regular season, Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent Team.
In the regular season this season, the Guangdong team and the Zhejiang Chouzhou team met twice, and the two sides drew 1:1.
Therefore, the battle with Zhejiang Chouzhou is the first test the Guangdong team faces in the playoffs.
In another game on the 3rd, the Guangzhou team defeated the Shanxi team 106:95.
In the first round of the contest, the Guangzhou team lost to the opponent 101:120, and the two sides will compete for a place in the top eight in the third round on the 5th.
The 2021-2022 CBA playoffs will be held on the 4th in the other two matches of the second round of the first round. The Beijing Shougang team and the Shandong team will face the Jilin team and the Shenzhen team respectively.
In the first round, the Beijing team and the Shandong team both lost.
Whether Jilin and Shenzhen will advance to the quarter-finals with two consecutive victories, or whether Beijing Shandong will pull back a game, has become the biggest suspense in the 4th battle.
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