Two months after recovering from injury, Guangdong's main defender Zhao Rui is getting closer and closer to a comeback.
According to Zhu Fangyu, general manager of the Guangdong team, Zhao Rui will definitely make a comeback in the third stage of the regular season. In the case of the countdown to the start of the third stage, Zhao Rui's improved health also gave the Guangdong team a reassuring pill.
Guangdong No. 10 is close to a comeback
Zhao Rui last played for Guangdong on December 26, 2021. It was the first game of the second phase of the regular season, and Zhao Rui accidentally fought for 30 minutes in the game. After that game, Zhao Rui has been absent, and the Guangdong team has subsequently officially announced that "Zhao Rui has to temporarily leave the Changchun division for recuperation and treatment due to extreme physical discomfort and increasingly aggravated ankle injuries". Due to the serious injury, Zhao Rui failed to make a comeback in the later stage of the second stage, and the CBA's recent offseason of more than a month gave Zhao Rui more adequate recovery time.
After nearly two months of rest, Zhao Rui, who was resurrected with blood, will also return to fight for the Guangdong team in the third stage of the regular season, but the specific time has not yet been determined. "Zhao Rui's injury is slowly recovering, and it is getting closer and closer to his return to the team, and I believe that Zhao Rui will definitely appear on the field in the third stage." For Zhao Rui when to come back? Zhu Fangyu said in an interview. After Zhu Fangyu's exact statement, Zhao Rui's comeback was also a nail in the coffin.
For the Guangdong team, Zhao Rui's comeback is absolute good news, and even a charcoal in the snow. As we all know, the Guangdong team had a large-scale injury and fatigue in the second stage of the regular season, and the record was greatly affected, and it was killed by Liaoning and Guangsha. Currently, the defending champion is only 5th in the league and has not yet locked up the playoffs in advance. At present, the Guangdong team is in urgent need of employment, and Zhao Rui, who is in the year of playing, also has the absolute ability to help Guangdong.
So far in the season, Zhao Rui has averaged 13.3 points, 5 rebounds, 7.5 assists and 1.8 steals per game. Although the data is not gorgeous, Zhao Rui's role on the field is irreplaceable. As Guangdong's favorite defender to attack the basket, Zhao Rui's counterattack quick attack, position battle breakthrough and split ball are all magic weapons for Guangdong to defeat the enemy. Although Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie, the two national defenders, have their own characteristics in playing, they are not as aggressive as Zhao Rui on the offensive end. In the stalemate stage, Guangdong especially needs Zhao Rui to stand up and break the deadlock. In the past, this responsibility fell more on Marzan Brooks and Wims, but now, there is no news of when Ma Shang will return, Weems has performed mediocrely after his comeback in the second stage, and new foreign aid Ledo prefers to shoot, for this reason, Zhao Rui's importance to Guangdong is self-evident.
As a representative of the Guangdong Mesozoic Generation, Zhao Rui has grown into one of the leaders of the team, often standing up to lead the team out of the quagmire. Compared with the elderly Yi Jianlian, Zhou Peng, Ren Junfei and Weimus, Zhao Rui's physical fitness is better, more impactful and energetic; compared with Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie, he is more stable, more fierce in defense and fighting, and more able to play a leading role. Therefore, whether from the perspective of technology and tactics or from the perspective of stabilizing the hearts and minds of the army, as long as Zhao Rui is cured, he can bring enough help to Guangdong, and this is what Guangdong is longing for.
Zhu Fangyu hopes that Guangdong Chong will be second in the regular season
The upcoming third phase is the final stage of the regular season, and the remaining 10 rounds of the regular season are also the final sprint stages for each team. The same is true for the Guangdong team, which is not currently ranked well. Right now, Guangdong's goal is not only to reach the top four, avoid participating in the 12-in-8 playoff playoffs and thus go straight to the quarterfinals, but also to strive for a higher ranking, say second, as much as possible.
Zhu Fangyu, the general manager of the Guangdong team, said, "We hope that in the existing regular season rankings, we will continue to fight for the front, and the best and ideal ranking is that we can go to the second place in the regular season." "With the leader Liaoning five wins away and being double-killed by the opponent, it is indeed difficult for The Guangdong team to surpass the Liaoning team in the remaining 10 rounds of the regular season. But at the same time, it is not easy for the Guangdong team to surpass the three opponents in front of them, Shanghai, Guangsha and Zhejiang. At present, Guangdong is 3 wins behind Shanghai and 2 wins behind Guangsha and Zhejiang.
Judging from the remaining schedule in Guangdong, they will face Shandong, Xinjiang, Guangzhou, Beijing Andong and Ningbo, and the five opponents are generally competitive. In comparison, the schedules in Shanghai, Guangsha and Zhejiang are relatively more challenging. Among them, Shanghai wants to fight Liaoning twice, and will also fight Guangsha once; in addition to fighting Shanghai, Guangsha will also fight Zhejiang twice; Zhejiang's schedule is the most difficult, and it will fight two battles in Guangsha and Liaoning twice.
The opponent's schedule seems to provide some opportunities for Guangdong, but from the perspective of mutual combat records, Guangdong is relatively at a loss. They were double-killed by Guangsha, and Zhejiang and Shanghai were one-win and one-loss draws, but in terms of small points, Guangdong lost to Zhejiang, and the only advantage was against Shanghai. But if Guangdong wants to rush to the second place in the regular season, in addition to winning the only 10 rounds of the regular season as much as possible, it also needs to see the "face" of Shanghai, Guangsha and Zhejiang. Unless all three teams suffered a heavy blow in the third stage, it seems very difficult for Guangdong to rush to the second place in the regular season.
At present, what Guangdong needs most is to make the most adequate preparations. After a month of rest, Guangdong's local players generally got rid of fatigue, and Zhao Rui is about to make a comeback, which is a very good aspect of Guangdong. At the same time, the substitute interior line Zhang Hao has a high probability of making a comeback in the third stage, and the introduction of Tang Jie by substitute defenders is also a suitable supplement to Guangdong. If foreign aid Weems can get back in shape, and new foreign aid Ledo can also establish a better chemical reaction with the team, then the Guangdong team will also have more confidence to impact the better ranking, so as to make the best and final preparation for the playoffs.
epilogue
In the last stage, the second stage of the regular season, Guangdong only achieved a record of 9 wins and 6 losses, and its competitiveness and winning rate were far less than those in the first stage (11 wins and 2 losses). At present, Guangdong will start again, and on March 1, they will welcome their first opponent Shandong, which is both the beginning of Guangdong's final sprint in the regular season and the reappearance of Guangdong after the regroupment. At that time, it is believed that the defending champion will also return to the field with a different attitude.