Many fans know that the Guangdong team has been a traditional giant in the past 20 years. In the 2005 National Games, they narrowly lost to the People's Liberation Army and won the silver medal. That defeat made Guangdong Hongyuan boss Chen Haitao say that. As the famous saying goes, I would rather exchange three CBA championships for a National Games gold medal. This also completely allows fans to understand how valuable the National Games gold medal is. Guangdong Hongyuan's emphasis on the National Games soon bore fruit. In both the 2009 and 2013 National Games, the Guangdong team won the adult men's basketball championship, winning the two most valuable gold medals. However, at the last National Games in 2017, the Guangdong National Games team, which was composed of Guangdong Hongyuan Team and Shenzhen Team, two CBA top four teams, lost to the remnant team in an upset 62-73. The Xinjiang team exposed the biggest upset of the men's basketball team in the previous National Games. The Guangdong team ended up only winning the bronze medal, which made the management of the Guangdong Hongyuan team very dissatisfied.

Therefore, in this National Games, the Guangdong team prepared early, not only retaining the main skeleton of Guangdong Hongyuan, who won three consecutive CBA championships, Zhou Peng, Ren Junfei, Zhao Rui, Hu Mingxuan, Xu Jie, Du Runwang, Zhang Haojia, Zhao Jinyang, Li Yingbo, Malik and other players have also recalled the 2.25 meter Liu Chuanxing who is about to join the Australian League, plus Shenzhen team's Shen Zijie, He Xining, Bai Haotian, Rong Zifeng and Guangzhou team's Li Yanzhe. It can be said that the lineup is The Guangdong team is the most luxurious, but because this luxurious 16-man roster needs to be reduced to a 12-man roster according to the rules, this also makes it difficult for head coach Du Feng to make a choice. This is also after other teams have determined the 12-man roster early, the Guangdong team has been The main reason for signing up for the 16-man roster was that on September 18, the Guangdong team was flying to Xi'an, so the 12-man roster was released at noon on the 18th.

In contrast, the Guangdong team’s main rival in the National Games, the Zhejiang team has only Wu Qian in terms of over-age players, and the other three players are only the main players of the Zhejiang team. Although the Zhejiang team has strong players of the right age. Yes, it is not much better than the Guangdong team's U22 age group; although the defending champion Liaoning team can field Han Dejun, Zhou Qi, Zhang Zhenlin, Guo Ailun, and Zhao Jiwei in the starting lineup, if you look at the Liaoning team's substitute lineup, you will find that almost all A name I have never heard of. Indeed, after Wu Changze and Ma Zhuang were injured, the current seven-member Liaoning team’s substitute lineup basically does not have many opportunities to play in the CBA. Therefore, even if the Liaoning team finally reaches the finals, they will be exhausted when they encounter the Guangdong team. , the Guangdong team should not let the gold medal fall by the wayside again this time.