On February 7, Beijing time, which is also the first working day after the end of the Spring Festival holiday, the official Weibo of the Tongxi men's basketball team posted a poster announcing the resumption of training. As the team currently the bottom of the league, Tongxi is currently suffering from a wave of embarrassing 25 consecutive losses, in the second stage of 15 games, Tongxi did not get a victory, from their last win, it goes back to October 22, when they won 98-73 against the league's new ningbo Fubang 24 points, and in the first stage of the final battle, Tongxi just faced Fubon again, but unfortunately this time they did not seize the opportunity, and finally gave Fubon the first victory in the history of Fubon 92-108.
The reason why Tongxi suffered this wave of consecutive defeats is actually forgivable, and the other core of the backcourt, Xi Relijiang and Wang Xu, who performed well in the first stage, were unable to play in the team's game in the second stage due to injury reasons. As the current score king and assist king of Tongxi, the veteran Xi Relijiang, who switched to Tongxi last season, can average 15.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and 7.9 assists per game, and Wang Xu, who transferred to Tongxi from Shanghai last season, also ushered in a rebirth in this rebuilt young team, and this season Wang Xu can average 13.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game, all of which are career-highs.
However, because these two main players are all sidelined by injuries, it is difficult for Qiao Women to cook without rice, even if Tongxi replaced the manager with Liu Tie, who coached Tianjin last season, in the second stage, it has not changed the team's losing streak. Although the team is difficult to win, but several young players in the squad have been given ample opportunities to show, and this is the outbreak of the new branch eye show Zhao Baiqing, which makes people shine, because the team did not renew the contract of The Great Outer Mortree this season, which also allowed Zhao Baiqing to usher in a lot of playing time, January 8 against Fujian, Zhao Baiqing cut a career-high 40 points and 7 rebounds, one of which also set a record for the highest scoring point of the rookie season of the draft player. As of now, Zhao Baiqing can average 12.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game, shooting 54.1% while shooting, and the three-point shooting rate can reach 35.9%.
When a rookie player becomes the thigh of the team, we can more or less understand that the strength of this team is indeed limited. It is no exaggeration to say that the current Tongxi men's basketball team does have a certain gap from the CBA level team, even if Xi Rejiang and Wang Xu can return healthily after that, but according to Tongxi's current lineup, it is difficult to stop the decline in losing streaks. In the case of domestic player strength is not dominant, their only foreign aid Edwards is not satisfactory, this season he averaged only 14.1 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game, and his three shooting percentages were as low as 42.6%, 22.4% and 66.7%, respectively, which is arguably one of the worst foreign aides in all CBA teams. It is not surprising that a foreign aid whose strength is below the level line, with a group of recruit eggs, tongxi finally fell to the bottom of the league.
And this end of the holiday "start", Tongxi in the upcoming third stage, I am afraid it is still difficult to win, and even likely to expand their own losing streak to 35 games, since entering the CBA in 14 years, Tongxi has also become the only team in the league that has not entered the playoffs (the other is Fubon), this time once again missed the playoffs, what kind of reform will the management make during the offseason? Let's wait and see