Text/Tongcheng faction
The third stage of the CBA league regular season is in full swing on March 1, I believe that each team has a performance goal in mind, and for the defending champion Guangdong Hongyuan, what kind of ranking position can make them more satisfied after the end of the third stage, Zhu Fangyu tells you the answer: second.
In an interview with the media, Zhu Fangyu, general manager of Guangdong Club, said: "We hope to continue to fight in the front of the existing regular season rankings, and the best and most ideal ranking is that we can go to the second place in the regular season." ”
After the second stage of the game, Guangdong team ranked 5th in the CBA standings with a score of 20 wins and 8 losses (71% win rate). Liaoning, who was behind the first place, was 5 wins; Shanghai, who was second in the second place, was 3 wins behind; Guangsha, who was in third place, was 2 wins behind; and Zhejiang, who was in fourth place, was 2 wins behind.
In the first stage, although Guangdong only suffered two defeats, losing to Zhejiang and Beijing respectively, the match that was lost to Beijing was really ugly, scoring only 67 points in the whole game. In the second stage, Guangdong played a total of 15 games, and suffered two consecutive defeats at the beginning, losing to Zhejiang Guangsha and Shanxi respectively, and then lost two times to Liao basket, then lost to Guangsha, and the last loss to Shanghai, that is, the second stage Guangdong team lost 6 games.
For the goal of "rushing two" in the third stage, netizens are generally not optimistic, because it is too difficult. To achieve this goal, it depends on two conditions, one is that the Guangdong team can not have a mistake in its own 10 games, at least to ensure a total victory, and the other is to hope that Shanghai, Guangsha and Zhejiang in the front of the line will drop the chain, and the two conditions are indispensable to achieve the goal of "rushing two".
Despite the difficulty, as a defending champion, if you don't even have the courage to achieve this small goal, what can you do to defend your title? What's more, since Zhu Fangyu dared to issue such a statement, he must have something to rely on, that is, Zhao Rui, who missed 14 games in the second stage of the team due to injury, will come back from injury.
In the second stage, Zhao Rui only played this game with Guangsha, played 30 minutes, shot 2 of 4 from two-pointers, and shot 1 of 6 from three-pointers, in average condition, only handing over 9 points, 2 rebounds, 7 assists and 4 steals. After the game, Zhao Rui felt extremely unwell and his ankle injuries were getting worse, and he left changchun at the end of December for treatment and rehabilitation.
Zhao Rui's comeback is good news for the Guangdong team, which is of great benefit to enriching the team's offensive means and increasing the scoring points. This season, Zhao Rui played a total of 12 games, averaging 13.3 points, 5 rebounds, 7.5 assists and 1.8 steals per game, and the data was acceptable. The problem is that after missing such a long time, whether Zhao Rui can return to the original level is still unknown.
However, anything is possible.