“I don’t think anyone wants to end in this way, but it does happen and we have to accept it. I need to experience a lot of waves in the process of growing up. I hope the players can remember this painful moment.” After losing to Guangsha team at home in the third round of CBA’s 8-4, Du Feng, the coach of Guangdong team, said something like this reluctantly.

The magic record of Guangdong team entering the top four of the playoffs for 20 consecutive seasons went to ancient times after this night. After winning three successive championships, Guangdong team missed the finals for two consecutive seasons. It was undoubtedly painful to lose the next game at home. Many members of the Guangdong team were red-eyed after the game. For this team, which is accustomed to winning the championship, the failure is over. Now what the Guangdong team has to do is to get out of this painful moment as soon as possible and return to the right track.

But this is not easy. Almost everyone can see the crux of the Guangdong team losing to Guangsha team, that is, the inside line is weak. Hu Jinqiu grabbed 22 rebounds in the battle of life and death and ruled the paint area by himself. Throughout the third round of the Guangdong team and Guangsha team, the Guangdong team almost never took the initiative to launch an attack from the inside line. Most of the scores came from the outside tossing and breakthroughs. Even though Hamilton, a big foreign aid, scored 16 points in this game, most of the scores came from his second rebound. Guangdong team is like a man who can only walk on one leg. Under the condition that he can’t use the inside line at all, is he invincible?

This game is just a microcosm of the Guangdong team this season. After Yi Jianlian was seriously injured, the inside of the Guangdong team had always been hidden. However, in this season, with the departure of the main forces of weimes and Zhou Peng, Su Wei retired and had faded out gradually, and the inner line of Guangdong team suffered an unprecedented crisis. In the past few seasons, the full rotation of the front line can make up for the pressure of the Guangdong team’s inner line. However, now weimes and Zhou Peng are not here, and Ren Junfei, who is one year old, has a sluggish performance and lacks the protection of the front line, the internal portal of the Guangdong team opened. In the regular season with low intensity, the Guangdong team can also use the advantage of the guard line to fill the gap in the inside line, but in the playoffs when boxing goes to meat, A team with a serious shortage of internal strength cannot reach the end.

The blue and yellow don’t pick up. This is the cruel reality facing the inner line of Guangdong team. Yi Jianlian was “old”, not to mention that when he was young, there were helpers like Su Wei who helped him to do dirty work and tiring work inside. Zhang Mingchi and Xu Xin are still too young. Du Feng has given these two young people many opportunities this season, but their performance is obviously not satisfactory. Maybe their talents can be fulfilled in the future, but in the next one or two seasons, the Guangdong team needs a real internal support, which can not only relieve the pressure of the team, it can also help young people in the array grow up.

From the current situation, the domestic first-class center is a scarce resource, and all teams are regarded as treasures. If you want to obtain excellent insider in the transfer market, you must pay a great price. The investment and recruitment of Guangdong team has always pursued cost performance, so it may be more feasible to introduce a stronger foreign aid.

Hamilton’s strength is not bad, and the speed of integrating into the team is also very fast, but after all, he is not a pure number five, and his inner singles ability and defensive ability are insufficient. If the Guangdong team can protect more than a few defensive rebound in the match with Guangsha team, it is hard to say the outcome of this round of series, but the ability to protect rebounds is exactly what the Guangdong team lacks now.

After a disappointing season, the Guangdong team must make double efforts to recover the glory of the past. As soon as possible, it will be an important step for the Guangdong team to embark on the road of winning the championship again.

(WEN/Yangcheng Evening News reporter Hao Haoyu)