The third stage of the CBA League regular season schedule has been released, and the Shandong Expressway, which is temporarily ranked 10th in the league, will play ten games with five opponents respectively, these five opponents are the fifth-ranked defending champion Guangdong Hongyuan, the temporarily ranked sixth Shenzhen Marco Polo, the eighth-ranked tough Beijing Shougang, the momentum has risen, the Tianjin forerunner who is eyeing the playoff seat, and then the Fujian Leopards who ranked seventeenth.
Through the first two stages of the game, the newcomer-led Shandong Expressway only ranked tenth in the league with 15 wins and 13 losses, borrowing the words of Shandong media that the record was not satisfactory, but considering various reasons, this result is also justified. Does this result really make sense? It is estimated that this is the Shandong media to Save Face for Xu Changsuo, a playoff final four last season, in the case of team reinforcement, and now it is still struggling for playoff tickets, such results are still called justified, then Shandong basketball is indeed too lacking in pursuit.
CBA third stage of the schedule, in the face of such five opponents, for the current Shandong Expressway is basically the devil schedule, against Guangdong Hongyuan, Shandong team has always had few wins, and Shenzhen team is a rising upstart, this season once topped the league list, if it is not because of Shen Zijie's injury, it is estimated that the team is still among the top four. It is really difficult for the Shandong team to get the victory from them. Beijing Shougang has always been a difficult opponent, the third stage will be four foreign aid configuration, Shandong High-speed want to win them may not be easy.
The other two remaining opponents, Tianjin is the dark horse team in the second stage of the league, the team relies on the advantage of four quarters and five people used by foreign aides, has re-entered the playoff competition zone, fortunately, the latest news shows that he is the inner line foreign aid Henson who previously reached a signing agreement with Tianjin because of flight problems He is likely to be unable to catch up with the third stage of the event, which is also indirectly to Shandong high-speed pressure reduction, and although Fujian is a famous CBA fish belly team, they have CBA scoring king Gordon, the team is also a famous person to go crazy, The previous matches also had examples of upset defeats over Beijing Shougang.
Shandong high-speed record this season is not ideal, and coach Xu Changsuo's rookie attributes have a lot to do with it, the first stage of the league should have been the sweet schedule of Shandong Expressway, but xu Changsuo brought the team into three no products, no offense and no defense, and there was no heart, to the second stage, the team had double foreign aid, if Hudson belongs to Lianpo, he can also rely on the three-pointer from the outside to help the team, then the water brother Giron Water is a bit disappointing, if not the last four games gradually awakened, Facing Shanxi, he also cut the highest single-game score of 45 points in the CBA, and it is estimated that he has long been swept out of the house. Coach water foreign aid water, this kind of water and water combination, it is indeed too difficult to get good results.
In the face of performance pressure, Shandong High-speed has shouted out the slogan of finding the third foreign aid, but unfortunately this is more like a crisis public relations, according to the latest news from the Shandong media, until now this third foreign aid is still in search, there is no accurate target at all, obviously this is a cover, a cover to fool the fans. In fact, the desire of the fans in the third stage of the Shandong Expressway to have new foreign aid is basically the same as the desire to change the coach.
From the current ranking and the remaining opponents, the main competitors of Shandong Expressway are Beijing Control, Xinjiang, Tianjin, especially between Beijing Control and Xinjiang, although these three teams have not directly fought, but the opponents in the third stage are the same five opponents, who can rush out to estimate that in addition to looking at strength, they also depend on popularity. If you look at the popularity, Xu Changsuo, who has just entered the CBA jianghu, and the old jianghu Adijiang, are certainly incomparable, and if they are compared with the outsiders, there should be local advantages. Thinking about what happened to Marbury last season, Xu Changsuo should not have reached this point.
If you look at the strength of Shandong Expressway in the case of no hope of new reinforcements, the biggest variable is the return of Ding Yanyuhang and Jiao Hailong, and the return of Jiao Hailong can solve the rotation problem of Shandong High-speed Inner Line to the greatest extent, so that Shandong High-speed Inner Line can be restored to the configuration of last season.
Ding Yanyuhang's return will be a big variable of Shandong Expressway, from the first stage of Xiao Ding's participation in the performance of the ten games, although he is far from returning to the peak, but the average contribution of 14.2 points per game is already the ceiling of the current Shandong high-speed front, the remaining players who returned this season Liu Guancen has been used by Xu Changsuo, the draft player Liu Yi is not tall enough, more is Xu Changsuo defined as a defensive tip, and the young general Hou Peizuo is more behind the position, basically has not yet received the trust of The Long Lock. Speaking of Jia Xiaoding is still the only third player that Xu Changsuo trusts, the second stage was intended to be entrusted with heavy responsibilities, but unfortunately, the day did not go according to people's wishes, Xiaoding was accidentally injured in training, and now he has returned from injury again, which is also a good thing. Obviously, considering the unknown factors of the team, in the case that other players are clear cards, Xiaoding's return from injury is undoubtedly the last bottom card of Shandong's high-speed impact on the playoffs.