During the regular season, many fans questioned that Lofton might be targeted in the playoffs and would not be as comfortable as he was in the regular season. Sure enough, in the first game against the experienced Guangdong men's basketball team, Lofton suffered from a disease, even though Shanghai once had the opportunity to play in the away stadium and get the match point, but Lofton as the core of the team, but buried Shanghai's hope of victory.

整場比賽打下來，洛夫頓在37分鐘的上場時間里，20中7，三分球6中2，拿到17分9籃板8助攻3搶斷1蓋帽，數據雖然全面，但低效的進攻，加上全隊最高的4次失誤，洛夫頓這場比賽，確實有些臥底的意思。

In the final quarter, Lu Wei still chose Lofton, who did not feel ideal in this game, and as a result, he basically fell behind once every single, and wanted to try to use his body to force a single score, but in the face of Guangdong's experienced forward group, Lofton still failed to find any way to deal with it.

As a comparison, Xavi only played 2 minutes in the final quarter, hit 0 three-pointers, and scored 0 points, including the last very important three-pointer that narrowed the difference to 0 points.

However, for Shanghai and Lofton, this defeat is not a bad thing, especially for Lofton, it can be regarded as realizing that the CBA playoffs are not so easy to play, if he can wake up and create more opportunities for his teammates and less waste, then Shanghai still has a chance to bring the game back to Dongguan after returning to the home court. But if he continues to compete with himself and ignores his teammates, then Shanghai is very likely to be completely terminated by Guangdong on his home court.

For Lu Wei, he is more flexible than Liu Peng in terms of personnel scheduling, which is indeed worthy of recognition, but in a stage with a low error tolerance rate like the playoffs, Lu Wei should still make a decision and abandon the foreign aid in poor condition as soon as possible, after all, the current team's domestic players still have Li Hongquan, Li Tianrong, Liu Zheng, if the superstitious state is not ideal foreign aid, Shanghai will let itself fall into passivity.

Therefore, in the next game, not only Lofton needs to adjust his mentality, but Lu Wei also needs to change his employment scheduling, so as not to have a situation of "Lofton is Lofton and Lofton is lost".