On January 24, Beijing time, Chouzhou ushered in a showdown with Shenzhen, both sides have a good competitiveness this season, Shenzhen recently rushed into the first place in the league, if it were not for Shen Zijie's injury, at least now they still have the opportunity to rank in the top five of the league (currently ranked sixth in the league). After experiencing the baptism of last season, Chouzhou also temporarily ranked fourth in the league this season. Although the two sides played hard in the first quarter, in the next two quarters, Chouzhou played a wave of 48-26 shockwaves, and finally won the victory 90-78 without bloodshed.
This game is also a head-on confrontation between the two sides, facing the big killer Salinger, who has been in the CBA for two seasons before, Chouzhou Dawai Rakosevic has not been afraid of this after having experience last season. He started 36 minutes and had 15 points, 13 rebounds, 3 assists, 5 steals and 1 block on 7-of-15 shooting, while Salinger had a dismal stat of 8 points and 9 rebounds. This time against the position, Rakosevic can be said to have the absolute upper hand.
The 24-year-old Rakosevic, who is 2.11 meters tall, chose to play in overseas leagues after graduating from the NCAA's Southern California University, and Lakosevic also chose to play in overseas leagues without being favored by NBA teams. His first stop happened to be our CBA, and the team he went to was also Zhejiang Chouzhou, which lacked an internal line, although the wings were full in the defensive position, but the internal position has always been a major dead hole in Chouzhou.
Lai Junhao's ability to attack the stronghold is insufficient, the veteran Zhang Dayu is more like a spatial projection type inside, the fierce offensive ability of Zhu Xuhang, limited by the lack of height (only 2 meters 01), can not bear the burden of the team's penalty area. The newcomer Rakosevic, as the only one of the three foreign players at the time (at that time, the foreign players were Landsberg, Brandon Paul and Rakosevic), in only 15.8 minutes of playing time, he was still able to efficiently deliver 10.6 points and 7.5 rebounds, shooting 52.2%.
Although he gave up Paul and signed another big wai Endor, he did not play too brightly due to the late arrival of the team. In the offseason, Chouzhou gave up the previous small Wailandsberg, originally retaining the preferential signing rights of Endo and Rakosevic, but Endo could not return to the team because he could not stand the quarantine policy, which also made Rakosevic the only big foreign aid in Chouzhou (the small foreign aid signed Eric Green, who previously played for Fujian). In this case, Rakosevic also got enough playing time, as of now, he can average 17.3 points, 13.2 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 2.1 steals and 3.1 blocks per game when the playing time reaches 31.6 minutes, and the overall performance is indeed much better than last season because of limited playing time.
As the current interior core of ChouZhou, if this youth army wants to go further this season, it really needs to rely on Rakosevic's influence on both offensive and defensive ends. And with Salinger, the league's top big outsider, in the slightest, we do have reason to believe that Rakosevic will be an important piece of the puzzle for the absolute state ceiling. "The inside lineman wins the world" has always been an eternal truth, with the small foreign aid Green to help Wu Qian, Wang Yibo and other backfielders to share the offensive pressure, Chouzhou really needs Rakosevic to be a father and a mother on the inside line!
(Luo Treasurer)