Not long ago, the Shenzhen men's basketball team once rushed to the first place in the league, but with the main inner line Shen Zijie due to a ligament tear injury, will be absent for 2-3 weeks, without the core of the inner line, Shenzhen also lost 5 of the next 6 games. Earlier in the focus of the showdown between Shenzhen and Liaoning Basket, the two sides have been tightly gripping the score, until the final stage of the decisive stage, only to divide the winner and loser, with He Xining's three-point iron, Shenzhen also lost the opportunity to kill the opponent, and finally lost to the Liaoning men's basketball team with a neat lineup of 90-92, swallowing the seventh defeat of the season.
Although regrettably lost, but the whole game Shenzhen a total of 5 players scored in double figures, of which He Xining was a single person to cut the team's highest 24 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals, +9 plus-minus is also the highest in the team, in the case of small foreign aid Booker did not play too much (this campaign only got 15 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists), He Xining also stepped forward to share the pressure of the team's offensive and organizational ends.
Unlike the previous two seasons that have always been the use of double small outside, this season Shenzhen men's basketball team in order to help the inner line of Shen Zijie to reduce pressure, choose to continue the frontier with the old acquaintance Salinger, originally signed Jarrod Jones as the team's third foreign aid, but before the season officially began, Shenzhen still sold Guangsha a person, the signing right of Jones to Guangsha, as for the small foreign aid, they still chose Booker, who was seamless with the team last season.
And this season's lineup with a very balanced Shenzhen, but also really showed great competitiveness, the first stage of 13 games, Shenzhen only lost 2 games, and the opponents lost are the same, the same city big brother team, the defending champion Guangdong men's basketball team, facing Beijing Shougang, and the first stage of the final battle against Shanghai, Shenzhen has relied on single foreign aid to achieve hard-won victory. After the second stage welcomed back Salinger, although in the first two games of Li Ke Tongxi and Guangsha, but after Shen Zijie because of injury reasons to watch from the sidelines, Shenzhen also helplessly suffered a wave of 4 consecutive defeats, losing to Guangsha, Liaoning these strong teams can indeed be understood, but should have won Shanxi and Jilin, these two games Shenzhen did lose some pity.
Just in shen Zijie's absence during this time, coach Qiu Biao also inserted the big foreign aid Salinger into the starting position, and after getting the start, Salinger won two doubles in these 3 games, and in the game against Shanxi on January 8, Salinger cut 34 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, and in a trance, let people see the top internal killer of the CBA. With the recovery of form during this time, Salinger has improved his stats to 16.9 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks, while The Little Wai Booker has slipped only 19.7 points in scoring, but the assists and outside shooting have remained excellent (averaging 7.8 assists per game, 40.5% from three-point range).
If according to the media exposure at that time, Shen Zijie will usher in a comeback in 2-3 weeks, then the shenzhen national striker will return closer and closer, this season the big bird can average 15.8 points, 10.4 rebounds, 3 assists, 1.4 steals and 2.8 blocks, when his and Salinger's twin tower combination will become an insurmountable nightmare for other teams in the league! If Booker and Gu Quan, He Xining, Yang Linyi, these outside shooters can also maintain an excellent feel, the Shenzhen men's basketball team wants to launch an attack towards the championship this season, it is definitely not a fool's dream!