On January 7, Beijing time, after the last defeat to the Shandong men's basketball team with 17 points, Shanghai ushered in a showdown with the Xinjiang men's basketball team. In the face of this traditional powerhouse with greatly reduced strength, Shanghai laid a 15-point advantage in the first quarter, and finally won 121-96 against its opponents by as many as 25 points, coming out of the shadow of the last loss to Shandong.
In this campaign, Li Chunjiang transferred Franklin to the bench and replaced it with Feng Lai as the starting, and this substitution schedule also allowed Franklin to find his own shooting accuracy, and he played for 25 minutes off the bench throughout the game, shooting 10 of 17, shooting 9 of 5 from three-point range, and taking 30 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, filling his data column. Although the number of assists is far below the season average, with Yuan Tangwen, the commander of the backcourt, helping to share the pressure (with 2 points and 9 assists), Franklin finally ushered in the offensive end.
As a major reinforcement for the Shanghai men's basketball team this season, Franklin has previously played for Guangsha, Sichuan and Shanxi. As the league's famous triple-double king, Franklin has cut 4 doubles miracles in a single game, and the opponent is exactly the Xinjiang men's basketball team that is facing today, on December 10, 2019, Franklin, who had just returned to Shanxi from Sichuan, cut 42 points, 12 rebounds, 12 assists and 10 steals in a game with Xinjiang, becoming the third player in CBA history to get a four-double.
Once upon a time, Franklin was also a super foreign aid who cut 3, 40+ big triple doubles, but after suffering a serious waist injury in the battle with Beijing Shougang last season, Franklin's comeback after that was not satisfactory. Now that almost a year has passed, Franklin may not really return to his previous peak state after this transfer to the Shanghai local team. It is true that Shanghai is currently strong and strong, and there is no shortage of offensive scorers, but at the critical moment, it is still necessary to break the deadlock, the reason why they lost to Shandong in the last game was precisely because Franklin was strangled to death, he shot 10 of 10 in the whole game, only got 7 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists, and was directly taught a lesson by the other side's 37-year-old Hudson (the latter cut 26 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists).
In this strong response to Xinjiang, Franklin can re-cut the score of 30+ is certainly worth celebrating, but from another level, he who used to take 30 points as a common thing, this time to get a 30 points again but it should be regarded as an "outbreak", to a certain extent, it also proves that Franklin's scoring ability has really declined sharply. So far, Franklin has played a total of 19 games for Shanghai, averaging 18.3 points, 7.7 rebounds and 9.8 assists per game, shooting 42.6% and 28.5% from three-point range, setting career-lows, if he really can't regard the previous 30+ big triple-doubles in Shanxi as a regular war, Shanghai wants to return to this season 's ideas (impacting the semifinals and even the finals), it is estimated that only the return of fredette, a third foreign aid, is really only expected.
30 years old is the year of playing, But Franklin can not play the previous peak level because of waist injury, which is probably not expected by the Shanghai men's basketball team, but fortunately, the assist ability is still online, and they can only use it at present, but as mentioned before, if the scoring ability does not go up, Franklin is estimated to be only a hurried passer-by of this local team!
(Luo Treasurer)