Yang Xuezeng, who has returned to the Shanxi men's basketball team for many years, has really built this team into the biggest dark horse in the league this season, and as of now they have achieved a wave of 7 consecutive wins, ranking fifth in the league with a record of 14 wins and 4 losses, ranking even higher than the traditional giants of Shougang, Guangdong and Shenzhen. You should know that the Shanxi men's basketball team in the offseason sent away Ren Junwei and Franklin in one fell swoop, but even so, the team's record did not decrease but increased, which was really unexpected by everyone.
Yang Xuezeng, who returned to Shanxi again, is not unfamiliar with these proud protégés who have been cultivated by himself, since the team has lost two tiger players, he simply excavated internally to let the previous main force bear more burdens, which also makes veterans who have played in Shanxi for many years, including Xing Zhiqiang and Yan Pengfei, usher in the peak of their careers this season, and in addition to them, there is also an awakening this year, he is Shanxi's main center Ge Zhaobao. As early as Shanxi entered the CBA, Ge Zhaobao joined the shanxi youth team, and stayed there for 5 years, in the 09-10 season Ge Zhaobao was transferred to the first team by the then coach Wu Qinglong, but on the eve of following the team to the United States for training, he suffered a fracture of his right foot, and as a result, he returned in the following year, and he was reimbursed for another season because of a fractured foot.
Until the 11-1 season, Ge Zhaobao really stepped on the official CBA stage, and in Shanxi this stay is a full 11 years, due to the lack of Shanxi's internal position, the height of 2 meters 12 Ge Zhaobao is also taken as a key training target by the team, 18-19 season he also once cut the career-high 12 points and 6 rebounds, but then two seasons Ge Zhaobao's playing time suffered a sharp compression, the overall performance also declined, Last season, he could only average 9.9 points per game, and the main interior position was basically taken by the big outside Moland and Ren Junwei.
But in the case of the departure of these two major competitors this season, under the full trust of his former mentor Yang Xuezeng, Ge Zhaobao finally ushered in the first day, the opening game with Ningbo Fubon, Ge Zhaobao cut 31 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals of all-around data, and in the following games, except for December 28 and Guangdong I only scored 9 points, the rest of the games exceeded double digits. Earlier in the battle between Shanxi and Tianjin, Ge Zhaobao completely ruled the forbidden area and made great contributions to Shanxi's final victory. He played 35 minutes in the game, scoring a career-high 40 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, filling his own data column.
Up to now, in the 15 games that Ge Zhaobao has played for Shanxi, in the case of playing time as high as 33.8 minutes, he has averaged 19.7 points, 7.7 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.6 steals per game, shooting 56.4% at the same time, accompanied by 42.9% three-point shooting rate, which has set a record for the highest value of the CBA career.
I have to say that Yang Xuezeng, the champion manager, does have a few brushes, which can make such a team that is not optimistic about the outside world become a big dark horse team that has cut guangdong, Liaoning and Shougang these strong teams this season, and Ge Zhaobao can be promoted from an average of 9.9 points per game last season to an all-star player with 19.7 points, this 29-year-old big center who is in the year of playing, this season is really possible to chase the best progress award!