The Liaoning men's basketball team's game against Shanghai was extremely intense. Previously, the Guangsha team successfully defeated the Liaoning team twice, causing other teams to learn the tactics of dealing with the Liaoning men's basketball team. They adopted a simple and direct two-man pinch strategy, suppressing Liaoning's duo of Fogg and Zhao Jiwei, forcing them to pass the ball in the hope that other players would pick up the attack. In the previous loss to the Guangsha team, the reason why the Liaoning team lost was because there was no third player who stepped up to take responsibility for the core attack.
However, in the match against Shanghai, Zhang Zhenlin of the Liaoning team stepped forward and proved to his opponent: You can trap those two people, but you can't stop me. Zhang Zhenlin scored 37 points in the game, showing scoring ability comparable to Durant, including 4-of-9 three-pointers, which is comparable to KD's scoring level. He showed amazing efficiency in singles and mid-range shooting in crunch time.
Moreover, Zhang Zhenlin not only performed well on the scoring end, but he performed more like James in key defensive moments, showing extraordinary defensive skills. In the game, Zhang Zhenlin's most admirable thing is not only his personal offensive performance, but also his defensive performance at critical moments.
He played 45 minutes in the whole game, marking the opponent's sharp knife foreign aid throughout the whole game, from Bledsoe to Vonleh, he not only completed key actions such as blood caps and steals, but also successfully completed the low singles of the single defense Vonleh at critical moments. In particular, in the final 40 seconds of the game, Zhang Zhenlin's defense became a redemptive move. At that time, the score was 97 draws, and Zhang Zhenlin defended Bledsoe for the first time, and the latter almost killed the Liaoning team.
Although there were some problems in the defense this time, Zhang Zhenlin did not lose heart, but took the initiative to ask the team for help, saying that he would defend Bledsoe again. In the end, Zhang Zhenlin stepped up again and successfully completed the defense of Bledsoe, making the Shanghai team miss the chance to kill. This tenacious will and fighting spirit are crucial. In this match, Bledsoe once again had a fierce duel with Zhang Zhenlin.
In the final minute of the game, he failed to hit a mid-range shot on the left, but Liaoning eventually won in overtime. After failing to successfully defend his opponent in the first time, Bledsoe was determined to give it his all in the second encounter. He showed a similar temperament to James, showing a tough defensive attitude twice in key moments, just like James showed. This spirit of "if you hit me, I must guard against you" is exactly the quality that the Chinese men's basketball team needs most.