Recently, the CBA officially announced the remaining schedule of the third stage, unlike the first and second stages in Zhuji and Changchun, the third stage will be held in Foshan and Shenyang, and 20 teams will also usher in the final sprint in this critical stage. As a dark horse team this season, the Guangzhou men's basketball team temporarily ranked 7th in the league with a record of 18 wins and 10 losses after the end of the second stage, and there is a great chance that it can enter the playoff stage for 2 consecutive years.
However, in the third stage, Guangzhou's schedule is the devil, and whether the team can withstand such a severe test is really debatable. In the last 10 games, Guangzhou respectively to play against Tianjin, Beijing, Guangdong, Fujian, Shenzhen, and these opponents in addition to Fujian is a soft persimmon, the rest of the teams are not good stubble, Tianjin although the strength is slightly inferior, but they have the advantage of both outside the game at the same time, even in the third stage of the big foreign aid Henson can not return to the team, the strength of this dark horse team is still not to be underestimated, not to mention Shougang, Guangdong, Shenzhen, are the league's strong teams, Guangzhou can overcome such difficulties and obstacles, To some extent, it also determines whether they can continue to reach the playoffs this season.
For Guangzhou, there are two unfavorable news, the first is the injury situation of The Little Wai Nate Mason, it is difficult to find the state in the middle of the season, but in the second stage of the penultimate game and Liaoning match suffered a foot injury, Mason in the four games after Guangzhou failed to put on the game, fortunately, the outbreak of TJ Lieff, coupled with Chen Yingjun also perfectly filled the loophole of Mason's absence, but also let Guangzhou achieve a good result of 3 wins and 1 loss in the last 4 games. However, in this window period, there is no news about Mason's injury, and these several training photos posted by the Guangzhou official media, there is no mason's figure, but also let people inevitably start to worry about Mason's injury, may really be more serious, as of now, Mason can average 21.2 points, 6.4 rebounds and 7.7 assists for Guangzhou, the importance of Guangzhou is self-evident, if he can not play in the third stage, relying only on Liv alone, Guangzhou will be struggling.
In addition, the domestic backcourt core Chen Yingjun also suffered an ankle sprain in the last game of the second stage and Ningbo, and there was also news that Chen Yingjun may represent Chinese Taipei in the World Preliminary Tournament held in Japan, if he really wants to leave the team, the probability is that he will not be able to catch up with the team's game in the third stage, in the case of Mason's doubts, if Guangzhou still loses Chen Yingjun, the core of the backcourt, the team can basically bid farewell to the competition for the playoffs in advance.
This season, Chen Yingjun under the tutelage of coach Guo Shiqiang, also completely ushered in an outbreak, averaging a career-best 19.9 points, 4.5 rebounds and 10 assists per game, which is an important driver of the current Guangzhou tactical launch, and the reason why The big waileev tore off his parallel goods label is that Chen Yingjun fed him cakes, if Chen Yingjun decided to represent Chinese Taipei in the World Preliminary Tournament, then the strength of Guangzhou in the third stage will decline sharply, and the devil schedule + two backcourt cores will be on the wall. Does Guangzhou really want to waste the early stage to lay such a valuable lead?