Wu Tingjia scored six three-pointers in front of Liaoning, but Tongxi unsurprisingly swallowed the longest 25-game losing streak in the history of the CBA. The ice and snow of Changchun make Wu Tingjia's winter particularly difficult, but Nanjing, thousands of miles away, is not cold rain and cold wind.
At his side, Zhao Baiqing is also at a loss, since entering Peking University in 2016, he has not lost 25 games in the cuban field in five years combined. Further ahead, he was even more invincible in the high school overlord Tsinghua High School, but he thought that he could meet the warm south from Beijing to Nanjing, but he did not expect it to be so difficult.
Tongxi not only suffered 25 consecutive defeats, but also won 1 and lost 27 times so far in the whole season, ranking first from the bottom of the league. Since defeating the new army Ningbo on October 22, 2021, Tongxi has not tasted victory for 4 months, and Ningbo has even won 2 victories. Tongxi also broke the CBA's longest single-season regular season losing streak of 24 consecutive losses, and the derailed train did not seem to have found the brakes.
Cuba's triple crown and historical triplet are in the quagmire of the CBA.
Since entering Peking University in 2016, Zhao Baiqing has won all the first three seasons of CUBA, and he can be regarded as a life winner on the basketball court. Growing up, he even won championships often because he participated in large and small competitions, and was called "old P" by his friends, which means always taking MVP.
Zhao Baiqing is actually lucky, after he joined Tongxi, the playing time and shooting opportunities he got in the team were almost the same as when he was in college. He can average 29.9 minutes per game and make 9.1 shots, while his senior and teammate Wan Shengwei made his career debut in his hometown nearly halfway through the season, and Wang Shaojie's rookie averages only 5.8 shots per game a year.
A Peking University double star who is one year older than him, Zhang Ning was sent down by Shanxi when he was playing in his rookie year, and Zhu Mingzhen was another player who was reused in the rookie year among several of their Peking University teammates, but the number of shots was not as good as him. A little further afield, Guo Kai, cuba's first player to get a top salary after entering the CBA through the draft, had very few opportunities in the first two years of his career, and once went to the South China Sea Kung Fu Boy to play ABL.
However, Zhao Baiqing has not been able to get decent support, let alone have the top combat strength of his league as he did in Tsinghua High School and Peking University. His original interior partner, Sun Mingyang, who came to Tongxi from Guangzhou, is 210cm tall and weighs 126KG, and has strengthened his three-point shooting this season, shooting 43% of the three-point shooting rate, playing a career high of 9 points and 7.4 rebounds, but he only played 8 games before he was injured.
After that, Zhao Baiqing's partner was replaced by Liu Dong of Tsinghua University.
The opponent in the Wudaokou derby, Liu Dong, who is 209cm tall, is the kind of interior line with a solid foundation and good mobility, but his tonnage is not enough. Liu Dong waited a year after graduating from university to participate in the draft, so he entered the CBA in the same year as Zhao Baiqing, and the two CUBA insiders suddenly became the sign of Tongxi.
Liu Dong averaged 8.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1 block per game, but the overall shooting rate was not high, and he was helpless against the attack under the basket. In the professional league, he could not do the excellent outside pinch delay like at Tsinghua University, and could only be easily broken by the defender again and again after blocking and dismantling.
Then, Zhao Baiqing's partner became Wang Rui and Zhao Tianyi of 205CM, and this time, Tongxi's internal line lost its confrontation and height. After Liu Tie's guidance into the master, Tongxi is indeed very similar to the Tianjin team he used to run, the proportion of outside attacks has increased, emphasizing the transfer of the ball, but the shortcomings of the inner line loss are also the same as Tianjin.
At this time, how much Liu Zhi hoped that like in Tianjin, even if there was no outstanding small foreign aid, a Well-defended Lin Tingqian could be the best solution. However, the roof leak was even rainy, the only backcourt star Xi Relijiang played 12 games and hung up the exemption card, Wang Xu, who played a new career high, was also injured after 13 games, and the only defender who could play, Wang Rui, only insisted on 24 games.
Finally, Wu Tingjia was summoned on the bench.
Before Liu Tie's arrival, Wu Tingjia played in 4 games, but only played 16.8 minutes in total, scoring only through free throws in the game to win Ningbo. Throughout his CUBA career, Wu Tingjia hit a total of 270 three-pointers in 59 games, breaking the record of former Shanxi player Taiyuan University of Technology star Wei Liangliang, who has since been broken by Li Zhanglin and Wu Tingjia.
In college, Wu Tingjia was considered a historic shooter from the beginning, but his excellent three-point ability was also greatly deficient, although he averaged 20.7 points per game in his career, but in fact, the most capable of playing hard at China University of Mining and Technology was his partner Hu Liangyu. However, after graduating from Hu Liangyu last season, Wu Tingjia averaged 22.5 points, 4 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game.
Cuba's Wu Tingjia in the final season is very similar to Stephen Curry, and despite the departure of his backcourt partner, he still wins a lot of space for himself through more efficient three-pointers and transfer of the ball. The control of the entire team of the Mining University has reached the point of pure fire, and at this time, Wu Tingjia is finally no longer just regarded as a shooter, but can really use the scale of the professional league to examine him.
Falling into the second round of the draft is not the biggest surprise, Wu Tingjia, who is only 180cm tall, is indeed too partial, but he could have won some appearances as a third point guard, and the bigger variable is that Tongxi signed Prince Rui again. But more accidents finally completed Wu Tingjia at the end of the second stage, and Tongxi's 3 backcourts were all injured.
Wu Tingjia seized the opportunity and stepped into the starting position.
Against Shanxi, he scored 16 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists without error. After experiencing Wang Zirui's injury, on January 25, 2022, Wu Tingjia ushered in the first start of his CBA career, but Tongxi fell behind by 18 points in the first quarter, and was stretched to more than 20 points in the second quarter and maintained until the end of the game, while Wu Tingjia, although he could not become a savior, grabbed 17 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.
In the second stage of the final battle, Wu Tingjia's second start, he had a little more calm, in the first quarter he shot 3 of 4 to score 8 points and 2 assists, and the one he lost was a long-range shot from midfield before the end of time. Wu Tingjia actually shot 100% of the shots in front of Liaoning in a single quarter, Liaoning turned the game into a confrontation, Wu Tingjia finally scored 6 of 9 three points, winning the first 20+ in his career.
Cuba's all-time three-pointer found his focus in the CBA, hitting a total of 10 three-pointers in both starts. But this does not mean that he is already a qualified CBA backcourt, facing Liaoning, he has 6 mistakes, in front of Zhao Jiwei, the young man who is learning to transform from an attacker to an organizer has almost no ability to resist.
In the haze of historic losing streaks, Wu Tingjia seemed to see the sunlight behind the clouds. He can't stop the team from sliding into the abyss, and Zhao Baiqing can't either, but at the beginning of their careers, having the opportunity to play the main force in a weak team that has never made the playoffs means that there is time to adapt to the game, to make up for shortcomings, and to gain a foothold in the professional league.
Tongxi still can't see the future clearly, but there will always be someone who will walk towards the future with their heads held high.
A large number of injuries, the failure of foreign aid selection, coupled with the three parties in the management, coaching staff and parent company in the three parties to pay for the failure, Tongxi lost the little light of hope accumulated at the beginning of the season. Changing the coach or changing the general manager can't immediately change the situation of the team's weakness, and the current record actually means nothing to this team, what they really lack is the will to fight.
Facing Guangdong, Zhao Baiqing scored 40 points, and Both Games Xinjiang scored 20+10, he averaged 12.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game this season, and his shooting rate was as high as 72%. Wu Tingjia has sat on the bench for most of the season, but when the team needs him, he can still firmly appear outside the three-point line and shoot three points with the most confident posture.
In Tongxi's terrible games, at some point, Zhao Baiqing seemed to find his courage at Peking University, and Wu Tingjia's temperament tempered in the southeast division of CUBA's most fierce competition overflowed the screen. These may not be enough to change Tongxi, but in the midst of the desolation, these two flowers have the opportunity to absorb nutrients and bloom, and they are open and have a different fragrance.
Tongxi started the third stage with consecutive games against the strong teams Shanghai and Zhejiang, and the team did not continue to introduce foreign aid, when the injured returned is unknown, and the number of consecutive defeats will increase. Can they end this deadly losing streak before the end of the season? No one knows, Zhao Baiqing and Wu Tingjia don't know, in the painful defeat, they still have to insist, only those who keep getting up can finally see the gossamer dawn.
Proud teenagers have become the biggest losers in the CBA, and they may not be able to become winners with this team anytime soon, but the winter of their careers will always pass.