The match between Shandong and Tongxi was considered to be a game with little suspense before the match. Then Shandong still took some twists and turns, they fell behind by 1 point in the half, completed the reversal in the second half, and finally won with a 12-point advantage.
One of the highlights of this game is that Ding Yanyuhang hit 9 three-pointers to cut the highest 34 points since his comeback. The other is Tongxi point guard Wang Xu, who shot 10 of 17 from the field, hit 6 three-pointers, and played against Ding Yanyuhang to score a career-high 31 points.
Wang Xu, 26, was selected for the National Youth And Special Sports Team and joined the Beijing Shougang First Team in the summer of 2015. At the beginning of Wang Xu's entry into the team, maburi, Fang Shuo, Zhang Qingpeng and Sun Yue were piled up on the Shougang point guards, and he only got one appearance in the first two seasons.
In the 17-18 season, Marbury and Zhang Qingpeng left the team one after another, Sun Yue was suspended due to injury, and Liu Xiaoyu, who was introduced by Shougang Heavy Gold, continued to suffer injuries. Under the new head coach Yannis, Wang Xu ushered in a life. For two consecutive seasons, the Greeks gave Wang Xu plenty of time to train, scoring a total of 50 appearances. He made 31 appearances in the 18-19 season, including eight starts.
Due to no significant growth, Wang Xu gradually faded out of the team's list of matches in the 19-20 season. Last summer, Wang Xu failed to secure a contract extension. After a trial, he joined Shanghai Jiushi.
In Shanghai, Wang Xu did not get many performance opportunities, only appearing once. However, in the reserve team league, he killed all four parties and won the MVP of Yinchuan Station. In the match with Guangzhou, Wang Xu played 28 minutes off the bench and frantically cut a quasi-quadruple-double of 26 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and 8 steals.
Last season, during the Spring Festival offseason, Shanghai bought out Wang Xu's contract. Regaining his freedom, he joined the rebuilt Nanjing Tongxi.
In Tongxi, Wang Xu found a sense of existence and played the main force. In the two matches against the old master Shougang, both played at a high level. Played 25 minutes in the first game, he had 13 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists, and the four statistics of playing time, scoring, rebounding and assists were all career highs. After a week, facing Shougang again, Wang Xu played 31 minutes off the bench, scoring a career-high 23 points, in addition to 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals. Playing time and scoring set a career high.
Last season, Wang Xu made 17 appearances for Tongxi and contributed 8.8 points, 1.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 24.8 minutes.
This season, Wang Xu continued to perform well, averaging 15.8 points, 3.0 rebounds and 6.3 assists in the first four battlefields, and shooting 41% from three-point range. The match against Shandong was Wang Xu's first start of the season, with 31 points and six three-pointers, all of which set a new career single-game high.
Was the marginal player who was once in the Shougang team really played a salted fish turn over?
In fact, Wang Xu is not as bad as the vast majority of Shougang fans who hate iron and steel imagine. Several times he was selected for the national youth training, which proved that before entering the adult team, Wang Xu was a rookie far above the level of the moving average. Compared with the main players in the team, Fang Shuo and Liu Xiaoyu, Wang Xu is of course very good. However, compared with the point guards such as Chen Yue and Bai Di, who have been crossed like meteors in the history of the Shougang team, Wang Xu is still too much stronger.
Due to his short stature, Wang Xu, who is less than 1 meter 8, has some difficulty handling the ball when facing the bag clip. The lack of excellent explosiveness and speed makes him always seem futile in breaking through and getting rid of it. When the outside line is empty, the shot is always cowering. Wang Xu did not meet the criteria of a qualified substitute when Yannis gave him ample opportunities, but it was not useless. Wang Xu is basically qualified in the role of attacking initiator, and from time to time can send beautiful pass assists. It was only because of the lack of growth in a few seasons that it was eventually abandoned by Shougang.
Tongxi is the only team that has never made the playoffs except for Ningbo, which has been newly added this season, and it is a full-fledged fish belly in the league. Last season, the composition of Tongxi's players was complex, and the overall strength of the team was weak and lacked pursuit. In such a team, everyone has a chance.
Wang Xu's statistics of averaging 15.8 points and 6.3 assists per game this season are eye-catching. However, almost every player who comes to Tongxi to "alleviate poverty" has bright statistics. When Xi Relijiang joined Tongxi, it was already his 13th CBA season, entering the twilight of his career, but he still played extremely bright statistics. Averaging 38.7 minutes per game, 16.6 points, 3.1 three-pointers, 4.6 rebounds and 9.1 assists, all career-highs. Wang Zixu, a former national youth player who could hardly even enter the game list at The North Control, also became a regular rotation player in Tongxi last season, and also averaged 6.8 points per game.
This actually shows a problem, that is, the data of the weak team does not have much reference value in itself. Russ Smith averaged 60 points per game in the NBL league, and by the time he reached the CBA, he was a basically qualified foreign player. Huang Haibei, who could not enter the competition list in Shougang that year, also played a good data and performance in Jiangsu on loan. Many players who have played brilliant statistics in weak teams have not even played a role player well after jumping to a strong team, and such examples abound.
Weak teams can provide more opportunities to play, which is a stage in itself for players who can't play in strong teams. The frequent flow of players in recent seasons has also provided opportunities for players who play less to perform.
But it should be clear that this has nothing to do with what "orange raw Huainan is orange Huaibei for citrus". Like those players who played in Ningbo, no team would feel sorry for giving them up.
Wang Xu's performance also shows that the gap between the strong and weak teams in the CBA league is huge. Of course, no matter which team you are on, the performance of 31 points in a single game is a shining point worth remembering in your career.